On Thursday 31 October 2002 11:22, Ben Nelson wrote: > Has anyone heard of these guys? Thoughts? > > http://www.superiorbroadband.com/coverage_aread.htm > > Ben I've heard of them. The guy who started that is also one of the owners of the Browsers N'Etc Cafe on Superior street. They started the wireless stuff in 1999 with some APs & antennas in the downtown area and Canal Park. The guy who ran the Twin Ports LUG, Todd Ide, was one of their network engineers for a long time. When I last ran into him he had left Superior Broadband for something else. They were positioning themselves to serve those sections of Duluth that weren't going to get DSL service due to the difficulty and cost of putting in adequate equipment in the older CO's "on the hill". The only choice for residential broadband in that area was Charter Pipeline (cable). As far as business high-speed internet you had T1 and Frame Relay via Qwest and CP Internet (usually). When I left there in the spring of 2000 they had clients along Superior street and at least one of the hotels in Canal Park. They struck a deal to put an antenna system on the top of the hotel. They were doing the same kind of thing to move up Superior Street and the London Road commercial district. They'd trade service for "real estate" and get what I guess are repeater type antenna systems on taller buildings. Note: All of this is vague memories of discussions with Todd and Dave Anderson, the owner. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com