Ben has managed to dupe an unsuspecting young man into working long hours for very little return. They say misery loves company! We will be bringing the newest member of our team, Shaun, up to speed over the next few weeks, so watch for him out in the field. So far he has mastered the arts of getting lunch, fetching wrenches, holding umbrellas, driving us to the tower and putting up with bad jokes. Soon he will be ready for screwdriver training, and if all goes well, cordless drills! Shaun should be fairly easy to recognize, he is much more intelligent than Ben, though not quite as pretty (you can't have it all, I guess.)

All joking aside, I would like to welcome Shaun to the team. Having another technician will allow us to respond that much faster to customer needs, as well as manage more installs per day.

Regards,

Our apologies for the brief outage today. Service was interrupted for an hour and 45 minutes this afternoon due to an HVAC repairman from another company unplugging and moving our equipment so that he could more easily reach a fan in need of repair. We were able to respond quickly and get the system back online. Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that no amount of technology would have prevented, though an attack dog may have been helpful ;)

We are grateful that it didn't occur during standard business hours, hopefully it did not disrupt too many of you.

Thanks for you ongoing support,

Aaron

Service in Lake Roesiger is excellent on the North Lake! We have high speed coverage to the entire eastern shore and will bring the western shore online next week. Our innitial customers are reporting speeds of up to 7 meg, depending on location, so give a call if you are interested in service.

We brought Lake Boswirth online yesterday, and are getting full speeds throughought the southern, northern and eastern shores of the lake. We should have the western shore online by mid month.

One of the relays at Lake Alyson took damage from the storm last night, causing a brief interruption for those customers. We are on our way out with a replacement and will have it back online this evening.

Thanks for your patience,

Aaron

   Lake Alyson residents are coming online quickly, with 14 customers so far. Today we went door to door in the neighborhood handing out information packets and meeting everyone. We had a lot of excited people and a lot of support, thanks for choosing Thunderbird and welcome aboard.

Today we also finalized arrangements for the main service link into Lake Roesiger. We should have repeaters an ...

The Lake Alyson links are up and running and the coverage is amazing! We just picked up the signal 8 miles away near Frontier Airpark with an RSSI well above -70!

As soon as the customer equipment comes in we can start getting everyone hooked up :)

Regards,

Aaron

We just finished building out the Tower Relay for Lake Alyson, and it's a beauty! We have a great link from the tower to our backhaul relay site on the other side of the river and have tested the link into Lake Alyson with temporary gear on a tripod. The results were very exciting - A high speed, stable link with low latency. We expect even better performance from the permanent mount, which we will be installing tomorrow.

We have finally managed to find a way to engineer a backhaul into Lake Alyson! We found a location with line of sight to our tower as well as to Lake Alyson and have come to an agreement with the owner of the property where we are going to locate the backhaul relay. We are going out this afternoon to test the equipment and plan the access point distribution throughout the community. We expect to have service available throughout Lake

Hello,

Some of you may have noticed that our telephone has been having issues the past week. It seems something had been botched up during our service upgrade to the phone system and we were stuck without phone service for a couple of days. We have resolved the problem and everything is working properly again.

Regards,

Aaron

My name is Ben and I am the youngest member of the Tbird team. I thought I would start my blog by cleaning up some misconceptions about networking, speeds, and the good old “Intro-net.” 

Lets start with the basics. The first thing about networking that everyone needs to know is the difference between MB’s and