The bad news first. The company that was trying to set up wireless broadband in our neighborhood, Tenax, has sent around an e-mail to those who had experessed an interest to let us know that the project is off.
Unfortunately, when Tenax deployed the equipment we planned to use, it did not work correctly. We have been unable to find wireless networking equipment that can provide reliable service for Foxridge. At this time, it does not look like Tenax will be able to provide high-speed broadband to Foxridge.
I apologize for any time we took. Tenax invested a significant amount of working capital to make this work, but we will not move forward with a substandard product.
The good news is that they recognized the problem and cancelled, rather than rolling it out in "gamma test" mode and suckering folks into paying for a few months.
The bad news is -- well, no wireless broadband. Which means waiting on the tender mercies of Comcast. They've finished rewiring the neighborhood, and this past week, a new set of digital cable packages kicked in (requiring us to reprogram some favorite channels, but adding some to the mix, including Margie's long-lusted-after Food Network), and supposedly cable data broadband is supposed to follow.
Still ... disappointing.
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