In recent weekend activities we have discovered a brand new and exciting ability; we can dig big holes - no shovels or tools needed

At a recent party our marketing guys found an eski full of beers, but best of all they were free. This find caused them to have an epiphany.
“We like getting customers are people like getting beer for free”
So in their infinite wisdom, they created this campaign. “Give a box of beers whenever a customer refers someone to wwwires”

If you would like a free gift basket of assorted beers, keep referring customers to us and we will keep up the supply going.

Just thought you guys might be interested to know about a couple WISPs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Cedar River went from not just breaking the 1929 flood record of 20.5′ but smashing it beyond the wildest dreams of the hydrologists and finally crested at over 31.5′. The only ISPs in Cedar Rapids that survived without any significant outage times were WISPs.

Circle Computer Resources - CCR (a.k.a Last Marathon Networks) and Dynamic Broadband (DYBB). We both use an Involta datacenter that is located in downtown Cedar Rapids. The datacenter completely lost grid power, then backup diesel power (the transfer switch was in the basement) and, finally, the backup generator that was brought in via an 18 wheeler that was in the alley because “the water could not ever get that high”.

A day before CCR (us) and DYBB found out the transfer switch was in the basement of the datacenter and we started hauling generators in the 3rd and 4th floor for our servers and radios. We fired them up and bought more and have been keeping everthing running since. Fortunately there is a skywalk downtown that allows us access without having to get through deep and raging rivers in the streets. Also the fiber, that was below street level, fortunately survived.

We are not out of the woods yet, but, at least, the situation is stable.
We’re hoping to get through the next few weeks without any outages. We think we can do it as long as the security folks allow us access to add fuel to, and babysit the generators.

Anyway, thanks to all the folks at Involta, DYBB, the Cedar Rapids Police, the Iowa National Guard our own CCR Staff we were able to keep the Internet up and running while all of the monsters like Qwest, Medicom and others were all down hard.

Chris Kelly
Circle Computer Resources

Last Marathon Networks

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World Without Wires (wwwires): Generation Y at it’s best – three young computer-obsessed lads (aged 19 to 24) from Northern NSW started this very professional company after one of them took a trip to the States and had an experience of the “wireless” lifestyle. Wwwires offer services between Casino, Lismore, Brunswick Heads and Ballina. The plan prices are competitive and, if forum comments are anything to go by, most people give them a pretty good wrap as far as service goes. You might like to read more about these Bangalow boys – here’s a snippet from their local rag, the Bangalow Heartbeat. And if you have time take a squiz at their blog where you can see some “action photos” of the boys doing various installations – including one up an enormous pine tree!

Dainen write here (im too lazy)
drew.

We (Dainen Damien and (myself) Drew) spent the afternoon with Greg Cromwell Director of Bush Branding & Marketing,

In Army Jeep convertible style we 4 X drove to the top of Goonengery for a look at a potential relay site.
As expected there are technical implications, however we have an action plan and will keep you posted.

When Tree services and Wireless Internet meet only good things can happen.

A big thank you to Chris Anderson from Swing Tree Services with Chris’s help we were able to provide internet to the good people of Bodhi Farm.

Don’t be fooled by Drew, wearing a harness doesn’t mean he actually does work.

Everything else is just a fairy tail.

After a LENGTHY testing phase, we are 1 step closer to delivering world class internet access to the Koonorigan reigon.

The Point to Point link freshly installed tested at 18Mbit/Sec VERY HAPPY.