In addition to our Cable and Fiber system now delivering speeds 25mbps up to 900mbps west of Eschbach into the town of Naches we are improving our Wireless where we haven’t yet turned up the cable system (which we will later this year). A new tower now serves the area from the Suntides Golf course …
About 2 weeks ago we increased the $59 plan from 5 to 8mbps and the $79 plan from 10mbps to 12mbps. Unfortunately we also discovered even though we have a billing system that regulates speeds nearly 2000 customers were hard coded with the old speeds. We have designated an employee to change each radio but …
The Internet has certainly grown in our 25 years of service to Yakima. When growth begins it’s always innocent and new. Now it’s not innocent at all and everyone is starting to grasp the technical side as the youth move up in age. I have always been an active player in the guidance that government …
Washington Broadband has had a sister company Washington Telco LLC for many years, even in the days of Northwest Info net, the old dial-up company, we were a CLEC. A CLEC is a mini telephone company. CLEC stands for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier. The telecommunications act of 1996 had provisions in it designed to spark …
In the beginning of the Internet everyone thought if you were selling Internet you must also build computers. It took a while to educate people that there are those who know how to build computers (hardware), those who understand software, and those who understand the Internet. Those are three distinctly different occupations and while many …
Question Your IT “Professional” Before You Spend Money Read More »
First let’s explain the anatomy of your home network. You have your Internet Service Provider, hopefully us, then the wire comes into your house or business. It then plugs into a either a modem for telephone or cable providers or a power supply for a Wireless connection (like us). Some modems then go to a …
In Summer of 2016 we purchased 40 miles of cable system from a defunct RF Cable system, this type of system is one way for transmission of Television. Our vision was to convert it into a two-way Internet system without Television. There really isn’t a need for cable TV anymore since it’s normally 150+ channels …
Voted #1 by a landslide thanks to you Washington Broadband has been declared the best Internet Company in Yakima by the Yakima Herald Republic in their annual survey. Not that we didn’t already know it but it’s nice to have the support of our customers and recognition of how hard we work to bring you …
We recently came up on a company called Aerez, they developed a program that loads into customer’s home routers. The many features was attractive because as an Internet Service Provider we receive feedback from concerns about how the Internet works for each of our customers. This program provides Parental Controls where an individual device in …
© 2019 Washington Broadband, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Web Design by Yakima Branding.
