Fixed-wireless connections use a series of antennae to exchange data at speeds of anywhere from 64kbps to 8Mbps. Bigger pipes are available. Our residential pipe is set to 1 Mbps downloads and 512kbps uploads. That’s three times the upload of our competitors. However, Fairnet offers more than the common shared pipe. We offer dedicated pipes that are aggressively priced to outperform frame relay and point-point copper lines. Compared to a high-speed modem connection, which affords a download speed of only 56 Kb per second, the power of a wireless connection is striking. By placing an antenna in a window or on your rooftop that establishes a clear line of sight to the Fairnet cells, you'll gain cost-effective, high-bandwidth access to the Internet.
The Internet is a large network. It is a complicated network. Projects are underway to graphically map the Internet. A good example of this can be found here.
We buy bandwidth at reduced rates around the state. We pump that bandwidth wirelessly around our network at high-speed from town to town, tower to tower. Each tower then has access points to serve our customers. A radio gets installed at each customer’s location. No phone lines. We can offer networking options that no other technology has. And what’s more—our network was designed for data from the ground up. We haven’t retrofitted data on top of television or telephone technology, although we can support all the current media technologies.
A lot of people are familiar with the 802.11b wireless standard. It runs a lot of small LANs in home and businesses. We do not run this standard on our backbone. Our service is a highly secured, proprietary network. We serve banks, schools, and medical facilities. We employ multiple layers of security, some of which we have developed ourselves.
