Tests of High Speed Country's new transmitter outperform satellite-based internet options
Summary
A Wisconsin startup designed a transmitter that broadcasts a Wi-Fi signal to home users without additional hardware on premises needed for wireless and satellite internet competitors. This has greatly improved the transmitters performance, reducing signal noise and increasing the distance and bandwidth/throughput by about 22%, when compared to the previously covered test deployments of the original model. For testing broadcast distance, the High Speed Country team deploys the WUN from Elk Mound Hill in Wisconsin from a height of 205 feet. In contrast to mobile phone network deployments, each WUN transmitter in a group operates on the same frequency, working effectively as one single unit, a design strategy that allows for self-healing. The latest round of stress testing (PDF) by High Speed Country was at The Lismore, a hotel in Eau Claire, WI currently undergoing extensive renovations.