http://www.cloudalliance.com We're the "Dirt Road Wireless" company! We go where the phone and cable companies won't! Sat, 02 May 2009 16:28:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last two months, we’ve made multiple improvements to the Cloud Alliance network. The wireless connections of our network between the Plainfield base station and our repeating stations in East Montpelier, Marshfield, and Calais have been powerfully strengthened with new, higher-frequency radios and antennas. These allow greater capacity and ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2008/12/16/significant-improvements/ Cloud Alliance has come to Adamant, Vermont, the tiny village straddling the line between the Towns of Calais and East Montpelier, and home to the world-famous Blackfly Festival attended by dozens of people and thousands of blackflies! The Adamant Coop is Vermont’s earliest cooperative grocery store, dating to Depression ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2008/06/22/adamant-from-old-to-new/ Two of the three satellite Internet service providers in our area have changed their rates. WildBlue has raised the total annual cost for its entry-level plan and its best plan by $60 and $120, respectively. StarBand has replaced its two plans with new ones, slightly increasing their glacial speeds and ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2008/02/03/thinking-about-wildblue-starband-hughesnet-some-rates-change-service-doesnt/ Our old-fashioned subscription plan names have been updated (We’re not an old-fashioned company, after all). Basic, Power User, SOHO, and Enterprise are now Cloudburst–1.0, Cloudburst–1.5, Cloudburst–2.0, and Cloudburst–3.0, respectively. You may have noticed our experimentation with a variety of wind and storm names over the last month or so. ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2007/11/01/new-plan-names-new-business-speeds-more-bandwidth/ We are very pleased to announce that our first Calais repeating station is now up and running. Located on Nick and Leslie Ward’s barn, high on Robinson Hill, this station has an excellent exposure to the east. In fact, locations as far as Plainfield, Marshfield, and beyond, receive strong signal ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2007/09/19/first-calais-station-in-service/ Two of the three repeater stations we mentioned in our last post are now complete, online, and serving new customers. We have successfully completed the construction of 900 MHz, 2.4GHz, and 5.8GHz links to structures attached to a silo in East Montpelier near Adamant and one in Marshfield near Plainfield. ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2006/08/17/two-new-repeaters-online/ Though it can penetrate foliage, to a certain extent, the wireless signal Cloud Alliance uses to deliver high-speed Internet cannot pass through hills and mountains, nor curve deeply into valleys and hollows. Many residents in the “lee” of hills, which are already receiving service, will be pleased to hear that ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2006/06/23/cloud-alliance-to-greatly-expand-coverage/ RURAL BROADBAND BEGINS IN CENTRAL VERMONT PLAINFIELD, Vt.—High-speed Internet service is finally reaching rural parts of Plainfield, Marshfield, East Montpelier and Calais. Cloud Alliance, a Vermont-based Internet provider, began wireless broadband service to sections of the four communities on Thursday. The long-awaited project, which will expand to include other towns in central ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2006/01/04/huge-announcement-installations-have-begun/ Wednesday December 29th 2005 - We now have signal at the Plainfield base station! Crews have put the finishing touches on the housing unit, transmission equipment is up and running, and construction of the Plainfield base station is now officially complete! Check out these pictures from Wedneday morning as work neared ... http://www.cloudalliance.com/2005/12/29/completed-construction/ We’re very pleased to bring you a fresh, snazzy new look and logo! Sign up to find out when service will be in your area. Explore the site and tell your friends! http://www.cloudalliance.com/2005/07/04/welcome-to-the-new-cloud-alliance-website/