John McCormick wrote about WildBlue high-speed Internet service in this The Right Tool for the Job? blog post.
This photo shows the owner of Mashan Communications, the installer, checking connections.
Local installer assembling the dish prior to attaching to the mount.
Mounting the dish to our storage shed
Showing the disk adjustment features on the back
Close up of transmitter and receiver
Modem using a small Belkin UPS
Side view of WildBlue modem
Rear of modem–top power, second, local Ethernet network , bottom two run to and from the dish.
Front of the modem–top light power, second flashes with down traffic, third flashes with up traffic, and the bottom indicates local network connection.
Another frontal shot of the modem including the UPS
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
