We announced last month that you can now pay by credit card and set up automatic recurring payments. But this month I’d like to personally encourage you to do that. The reason is that you doing that greatly lowers our LCWA billing costs: it costs a lot more for...
I bet you have never heard of DMCA (The Digital Millennium Copyright Act). Actually you probably have. It’s the formal law behind the idea that it is illegal to download copyrighted material from the Internet. What you may not know is there are mechanisms in the Internet where such downloads...
You know that LCWA is run mostly by volunteers, right? We’d like you to volunteer. Contact me, Dana Simmons (president@lcwireless.net), if you’d like to volunteer in some way, and I’ll find something for you that meets your skills and schedule. With that in mind, there are lots of one-off and...
LCWA has recently activated credit card processing for its monthly invoices. On your email invoice near the bottom you will see an invitation to pay by credit card, so feel free to use that! Or continue to send a check in. If you want to pay by credit card, it’s...
Living in the high deserts outside of Santa Fe, you’ll find many people who have carved off a successful and heartfelt business that suits their special character. Harold Grantham is one of those people. Back in 1993 Harold was taking care of a horse ranch outside of town and it...
As you know, LCWA delivers its Internet service wirelessly, via radio tower Access Points (APs), to your home. We are constantly expanding those APs to help more rural Santa Fe people who cannot normally get Internet. On August 31, our latest new AP went live near Seton Village and it...
As we have grown, and the networks have become more complex, we have recognized the need for technical expertise and time commitment that is beyond asking for volunteers to perform. Thus, we currently have part-time contractors to fulfill three critical jobs: Network Engineer (Reiney), Infrastructure Engineer (Phil), and Accounting (Noelle)....
This brief video shows you how to set up your LCWA portal account, then use it to make either recurring or one-time monthly bill payments with a credit card. IMPORTANT: You must connect to the portal from a device inside the LCWA network (i.e., at home). For security reasons, you cannot...
As you may know, LCWA is responsible for managing the operation of the outdoor Santa Fe area network, which includes the LCWA radio on your roof. But Members are responsible for their routers (and computers) inside the house. If you have problems with your router, our volunteers will try to help you...
If you find yourself having to reboot your router or LCWA radio a lot in order to keep your LCWA Internet up, here is a simple fix: buy a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)! They are cheap (less than $50), easy to install, and they will do a world of good...
