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How It Works

Wireless broadband is delivered to businesses and residential customers by sending an RF  (radio frequency) signal from a broadcast tower to a radio installed at the end users premise.  It works similar to the way your wireless phone works at home.   A signal, sent from a transmitter (tower) is received by a receiver (customer radio) and converted to communication (Internet bandwidth).

You’ve seen businesses and homes with  little white rectangular boxes installed and you’ve seen broadcast towers (often on water towers) with broadcast antennas attached to them.

Here’s a oversimplified perspective on how our service works.

In our offices we purchase redundant Internet connections that we connect via cabling to equipment on one or more of our broadcast towers.   This Internet bandwidth is then sent between our various towers to transport this service to other areas.   Think about this like a highway system (wireless Internet signal) connecting various cities (towers).  

From each of these towers services can be (i) re-broadcast to another tower and/or (ii) broadcast to end users customer premises.

The best signals are those that have the clearest “line of site” to the tower.  For example, there is not much that obstructs the path between the broadcast tower and the customer radio installed at the business or home.

Once the signal is at the end user’s location it terminates into the CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) which is  signal receiving radio.  From that point the signal is transmitted over ordinary CAT-5 cabling (regular computer networking cable) to your computer.  Sometimes, a customer will install a router or a wireless router in between the CPE and computer which permits other computers to share the connection either via wire-line or wirelessly.   Come to think of it, a home wireless network is not that different from our wireless service.   Bandwidth is received in one place and redistributed to others using a wireless broadcast system.

Do you have a cordless telephone? It will probably have numbers on it that read something like 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.2 GHz or 5.7 GHz.?  These are the radio frequencies in which your cordless phone operates. Well, so does wireless Internet!

As mentioned above, this is all done with radio frequencies.

Communications over a wireless network are generally secure. The data sent through the network is encrypted to make it difficult to steal.   Still, like any determined thief, where there’s enough incentive and will there is often a way.   So, like with any network – wired or wireless - you should always be careful when sending confidential or secure information so it remains confidential and secure.

Our service generally makes use of three radio frequencies.  We use 5.8GHz signals for our backbone connections (between towers) and either 2.4 GHz or 900 MHz signals for transmissions to the end customers.   We use different signal types for a number of reasons; most important is to best match the required service with the capabilities of the equipment.

Our service is stable, reliable and affordable.   Most of all, it’s available in areas where the large telephone and cable providers are unable or unwilling to provide services.