[Hidden-tech] Wireless talk set for Wednesday in Buckland

[Rich Roth]

*Wireless talk set for Wednesday in Buckland*

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By DIANE BRONCACCIO**

Recorder Staff*

SHELBURNE FALLS --- Buckland and Shelburne residents who want high-speed wireless Internet
service may come to a presentation by the Great Auk Wireless Co. at 6 p.m. Wednesday at
the Buckland Town Hall.

The meeting was set up by the Buckland and Shelburne Cable Advisory committees, which are
in their fourth year of negotiations with Comcast to install cable in the more rural
sections of both towns.

While still negotiating with Comcast, the cable advisory boards have branched out to look
for highspeed Internet alternatives for residents "who needed it yesterday," said Glenn
Cardinal, chairman of Buckland's Cable Advisory Committee. "Comcast is not going to build
out the entire towns of Buckland and Shelburne.".

He pointed out there are many people in the Apple Valley section of Ashfield and in the
Clesson Brook section of Buckland who may be very interested in wireless service. "I'm
hoping to have 60 to 70 people, between the two towns, show up," Cardinal said.

GAW recently signed up at least 250 residents in Conway and Ashfield and is hoping to be
able to offer service in those communities by year's end.

Wireless Internet Service Providers are primarily located in rural areas, where cable or
telephone company digital subscriber lines are not available. A repeater acts as a
connecting device between wireless routers and computers. If properly set up, it extends
the range of a local wireless network.

The system would be anchored to a fiber-optics backbone based at a technology center in
Springfield, with repeaters placed in high elevations to direct high-speed capacity to the
antennas of subscribers. GAW already has telecommunications equipment on Mount Tom.


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