Lake Waseosa Ratepayers' Association

Spurred on by Jerry's initiative, I have contacted a number of takeholders and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The Waseosa area should be receiving wireless high-speed service no later than this coming September.

There will be 2 primary alternatives:

MCN has hired Core to erect the towers and related infrastructure for high speed wireless service in our area. The system is described as a "hub and spoke" arraingement -- there will be a central main tower in Huntsville to serve smaller regional towers for areas like ours. Core is now awaiting final approval from Huntsville Town Council for the main tower. That location must be finalized before they can finalize the height and locations of the regional towers.

Update: January 30th. Things are back on track again and the tower is taking shape. They use a modified TV tower as a crane to lift the tower sections into place. I refuse to say the new projected operation date because every time I do, something happens to cause further delays!

The first tower went live today (Feb. 3)  at 5:45pm. The installer said "I'm hooking up the cables now" and within 2 minutes he had a call on his cell phone from Core telling him the system had recognized the new tower going online. (And you think driving and talking on a cell is bad -- how about doing it while clinging to a narrow perch with frozen fingers 100' in the air! ) 

Updated: What happens when it all goes south and quits working. (Added to the end of this article.)

I got high speed access today, but it was touch and go there for a while.

The installer actually came out a week ago to test for signal. We knew in advance that my property would be borderline for service. A line drawn from the transmitter just grazes the top of Treasure island and has to penetrate almost half a kilometer of foliage horizontally. So getting service here was a bit of a test case.