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
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
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
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...
Vanity E-mail Addresses Coming Soon
Are you proud of your community? Do you like helping people spell SKA-MOK-AWA? Then a @skamokawa.us email address may be right for you. Coming soon, you can sign up for a [email protected] email address. The first choice of names will go to Skamokawa Internet...
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
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
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...
