News – La Cañada Wireless Association

19NovNovember 19, 2024

With Black Friday Sales, Avoid Most New Wi-Fi Routers and Mesh Systems

Black Friday is coming soon, and Black Friday sales often emphasize new electronics that can be fun to buy. However, we want to remind our LCWA members that, due to the rooftop radio distribution system LCWA relies on, you should be very careful when considering buying new Wi-Fi routers, extenders, or mesh systems for your home. We all want magic ways to speed up our Wi-Fi. But in most cases, a new router, extender, or mesh...

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08SepSeptember 8, 2024

Help Yourself by Helping Us Serve You

Don't forget that LCWA is a mostly volunteer-supported membership organization with no full time employees. By working smartly, LCWA currently requires only a few part-time volunteers and staff to support our 870 members. Our installs are mostly problem free and our internet tends to work well. But when large regional outages...

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08SepSeptember 8, 2024

Eastside Speed Increase Project Update

The eastside coverage areas include the 285 corridor, the hills above Old Santa Fe Trail, Canoncito, Eldorado, Lamy, and a number of small neighborhoods near I-25. Most of those areas are already enjoying near doubling of internet speeds since last spring. This was made possible by installing the...

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08SepSeptember 8, 2024

New Westside Distribution Point (CLA) Nearly Done

Some of you have volunteered and helped with the new westside distribution point project. We want to thank you all and tell you that project is essentially done---your volunteer efforts have paid off! For the rest of you, what is the new westside distribution point ? Called CLA for short...

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05SepSeptember 5, 2024

Using Your Cell Phone Hot Spot as Internet Backup

You May Already Have It I was helping a very nice LCWA member the other day whose internet was down. After we got it fixed she mentioned internet was extremely important to her, so I asked her what internet backup she used---we always recommend to everyone who have critical internet...

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17AprApril 17, 2024

How to Run a Speed Test Correctly

Most Internet consumers, if the run an online speed test, run it incorrectly. How to run it correctly depends on your goal. If you are trying to determine what speeds your ISP (Internet Service Provider; LCWA is your ISP) is providing to your home, then very specific steps must...

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17AprApril 17, 2024

New LCWA Billing and Speed Tier Names

Your May 10 (2024) invoice will reflect a new naming system for our billing speed tiers. Specifically, we are changing the names of each of our subscription tiers to names that match FCC recommended ones. Reason? It gets us ahead of possible upcoming federal regulations. But mainly, it allows...

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17AprApril 17, 2024

LCWA Neighborhoods Needing Work to Reach Higher Speeds

In the previous article we announced that higher speeds have arrived for nearly all LCWA members, at no extra charge. We also mentioned that some neighborhoods will need backbone improvements before they will see those higher speeds. That represents about ten percent of our membership, so you might want...

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17AprApril 17, 2024

Volunteers May Be Needed to Improve your Neighborhood’s Infrastructure

LCWA is run and operated mostly by volunteers. So, to help us upgrade the LCWA internet infrastructure in yours or adjoining neighborhoods, (to help deploy the new speed boost project), we will likely need volunteers. The biggest need is for folks willing and able to: Work with other members to...

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16AprApril 16, 2024

Access Point Lookup Table

Account Number Access Point (AP) Identifier Last updated Apr 16, 2024 Using your account number, use this table to look up the LCWA access point (AP) your site connects to for Internet access. This can be useful if LCWA announces that certain AP sites are down or having issues for some...

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