Grange Extension Coming

Grange Extension Coming

I’m excited to announce that coming in the next couple weeks we will be expanding our coverage thanks to an agreement with the Skamokawa Grange. A new transmitter located on the Grange will allow coverage into Sleepy Hollow as well as west and middle valley. If...
Wakiakum PUD Broadband Survey

Wakiakum PUD Broadband Survey

As many of you know Broadband Internet Service is critical for many aspects of our lives. Our children need it to do our homework, businesses need it to be competitive, and sometimes we just need to watch a good movie or sporting event. Our county commissioners have...
Nextdoor – Private Social Network

Nextdoor – Private Social Network

Some of you may have seen an invitation recently to Nextdoor and you may be wondering what it is and if you should join. Here’s the scoop. Nextdoor is a Private Social Media network. Think of it as FaceBook but secure. Users can post news, information, events,...
December Update

December Update

Skamokawa Internet Services has been running now for half a year. In that time I am happy to announce that we have had no major outages and our average bandwidth has been right around 45 Mbps to the customer. We are currently paying for a 100 Mbps fiber connection and...
Mid June Update

Mid June Update

It’s been a busy June so far for us. June 2nd was our personal moving day. Even though our house wasn’t ready it didn’t matter, we had to be out of our house in Vancouver, so we packed up the U-haul, with the help of some awesome friends and moved...
End of May Update

End of May Update

I just received word that the contractor will start work on Monday, June 4th to bring fiber from the “vault” near the highway to our new network operation center on Pleasant Point Road. Once that is complete they will light up the fiber and high-speed...
Local Commissioners Agree Broadband is Critical

Local Commissioners Agree Broadband is Critical

In case you missed the article local officials agree that broadband is an important issue in our county. I couldn’t agree with them more and hope that the local enthusiasm continues to provide a solution to this local need. Easy access to high-speed internet is...
Mid-May Update

Mid-May Update

Have Patience Wow, creating a Wireless Internet Service Provider network takes a lot of patience! We’ve now been working on this for six months and it seems at times like I have not made any progress. At least, currently we don’t have anything physical...
District #2 First Customer

District #2 First Customer

I was able to make it to the March meeting for Wahkiakum Port District #2 recently and offered the possibility of the port coming on as the first customer of Skamokawa Internet Services. They were very supportive of our proposal and seem to be committed to the...