Another Broadband Provider

Thanks to Pat Mercer for putting us on to this:

GAW.com joins Wavecomm, WildBlue and Fairpoint in offering broadband to Orange. GAW offers competitive prices.  Your faithful webmaster has personally used the other three services (and we currently use WaveComm and Fairpoint); we haven't tried out GAW.

Like WaveComm, GAW uses wireless transmitters. It installs a small dish at your place, which needs to have line-of-sight access to a transmitter or repeater. WaveComm recently put a dish up on the Cardigan summit, and says it has plans to put repeaters around town for those who can't see the summit from their house.  

Wildblue uses satellites, and installs a dish at your place.  Fairpoint mails you a modem to hook up with a phone jack.  It's the easiest, most trouble-free solution, but DSL isn't yet available to most of the town.

We haven't contacted GAW to ask what the Brattleboro-based company plans for our area.