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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Proud Organization You know, I extremely am proud of our little local Internet Service Provider (ISP) organization called LCWA. Starting with humble beginnings only 15 years ago, we now cooperatively serve 560 members in rural Santa Fe—these are rural land and homeowners who could not get Internet access otherwise. While...
Profiles of Members and Volunteers As part of my monthly letter I’ve decided to profile various members and volunteers of our LCWA community—to emphasize the human element of this organization that sometimes gets lost under its technology focus. My longtime friend and outgoing LCWA treasurer, Jerry Zollars, is a great...
118 Access Points Did you know that we have 118 Access Points at 48 sites in our LCWA network? A lot of these are, simply put, small radio setups that sit on top of house rooftops (and on some small towers), as well as a few key sites that aggregate traffic...
