How does InternetExtension get a signal to my location without a phone line or cable?

WiFi is a technology that uses the same frequency as some home wireless telephones, some home security cameras and your microwave oven. 2.4-2.5 gigahertz. It does use standard 802.11 equipment.

A radio transceiver (your bridge connected to your computer) sends and receives the data back and forth to radio transceivers located around the service area.

It does not use telephone lines, satellites, or coaxial cable to move your data back and forth to the Internet.

It does provide fast data transfer rates. A very good dialup modem connection may obtain a rate of 45 kb per second using a 56 kb modem. With InternetExtension, rates average about 10 times that rate at around 1,000 kb (1 mb) per second. Depending on load at the time, connection rates will vary from a low around 750 kb (during peak load time of day) to over 1,000 kb per second (at very low load time).

All of the Internet extension customers are on the equivelent of a local area network that connects to the Internet via the radio transmitters. Your home or business is connected via a radio link to our network backbone. Unlike broadband provided via cable or DSL, WiFi is more complicated due to the addition of the radio overhead involved in it's distribution. More variables can affect your conectivity.