Pricing information requires the following: 

Site Survey 

 

A site survey is required, and is free. Several tasks are required:

 

1. There must be a line of sight of the antenna to a transmitter, requiring an antenna to be in the clear of buildings, trees, and other obstructions. The antenna must meet the building codes and installation should be accomplished by a competent installer. A fee is charged for materials and labor if performed by Falmouth Wireless.

 

2. The network used to access the Internet must be examined for suitability of service. Residential routers usually fall short in performance. The wireless modem and router supplied by FalmouthWireless is designed for commercial grade operation and includes QoS settings and SPAM reduction from blacklisted sites. Options will be explained. A fee is charged for materials and labor if your internal network has to be changed. The modem comes with three "wired" ports, but it can be expanded to nine "wired" ports at an extra charge. Therefore your existing router is not necessary.

 

3. Ensure your understanding of bandwidth, speed, and how performance is affected. Specifically, the Internet connection bandwidth is determined by the grade of service to the "port" on the wireless modem. Multiple users behind the port are then "shared users" on the port. Understand the "terms of service".

 

4. If you change from one service provider to our service, and they provide web hosting and e-mail, changes in your internal setup are usually required. Most customers prefer web-mail and web hosting from outside providers. See (2.) above. 

 

5. Our pricing model is to provide a basic pricing that provides a connection to the IP-network. To that pricing you may use your own desired Internet connection. Optionally, we have multi-homed Internet connections at various speeds. These are business class Internet connections. Commercial IP addresses can provided as optional.

 

6. Residential class service is based on using an open Wi-Fi connection with the security of private login and password. The lower cost plans allow the user to use his/her Blackberry, iPhone, laptops, or desktop computers (as examples) in a residential setting. Wifibernet is a much longer range Internet technology that uses external antennas that have a near line of sight capability to our system of wireless transmitters.

 

The unique advantage to the Residential user is that we use multiple Internet gateways to reach the Internet. If a service is "loaded" or "shuts down", there is an alternate Internet gateway to continue a positive Internet experience.

 

7. Professional class service (described on our web site) is a higher level of service designed for businesses with multiple Internet connections. Telco/Industrial grade routers are used in the "Cisco Class".

 

8. Wi-Fi service is the lowest cost service because you are choosing a service designed for limited range and subjected to slowdowns caused by other users sharing the Wi-Fi channel. The Wi-Fi service is secured by a login/password. If you use your own equipment, Falmouth Wireless states "caveat emptor". To improve range, an external antenna sytem is available with a built-in modem. This system requires pointing to the Wi-Fi transmitting site because it uses a directional antenna. Professional installation is available.

 

 

 

508-815-0023 (Hyannis)
866-303-1666 (Toll Free)

 

The wireless modem works on a half duplex connection. On average, the throughput of the modem supports18 Mbps. The modem itself is transparent so it does not limit your upload or download speed that can be up to 36 Mbps in each direction.