Neighbours Create Their Own Internet Service on Orcas Island

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Neighbours Create Their Own Internet Service on Orcas Island

By CircleID Reporter
November 02, 2015, 6:37 pm PST Views: 4,547 Add Comment

Faced with slow and outage-prone Internet access, residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, decided to design their own network and built it themselves. “The nonprofit Doe Bay Internet Users Association (DBIUA), founded by Sutton, Brems, and a few friends, now provide Internet service to a portion of the island. It’s a wireless network with radios installed on trees and houses in the Doe Bay portion of Orcas Island. Those radios get signals from radios on top of a water tower, which in turn receive a signal from a microwave tower across the water in Mount Vernon, Washington.”

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