Mainstream Fiber Networks had the fortunate opportunity to be featured in a BroadbandNow article, 9 Community Fiber Internet Success Stories, detailing the accomplishments of local fiber internet brands and their social and economic impacts on communities. Having the chance to spread the word about our impact on communities on a highly-regarded website like broadbandnow.com goes to show that Mainstream is continuing to move in the right direction! What really matters is that communities continue to be educated on fiber broadband, its technological benefits, and how it can enhance the value of homes, businesses, schools, medical centers, local government buildings, and …
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If the rain didn't keep you inside, you may have seen our booth during the past week at the Harrison County Agricultural Fair. We were lucky enough to have a booth inside where it was dry, and we were also fortunate enough to have dry sunny days for the later part of the week. The team at Mainstream Fiber Networks loves going out to these events and meeting all the people in the areas we serve, as well as meeting some people from neighboring areas we hope to expand to. As always we appreciated meeting everyone who stopped by to …
If the rain didn't keep you inside, you may have seen our booth over the weekend at the Floyd County 4-H Fair. We were there, rain or shine (and fortunately it was mostly shine), all weekend, and had a blast! We especially enjoyed meeting everyone from around the community and learning more about Floyd County. We also had a drawing of a cooler full of summer fun goodies, and we're happy to announce that we have drawn a winner: Jessica Henderson! Congratulations Jessica! Thank you to everyone who came out and helped make the event such a success. We hope …
As the summer gets into full swing with the arrival of June, we also begin preparing for all the fairs and festivals coming up this season. Our team is excited to be getting out and meeting everyone throughout the areas we serve. Tomorrow marks the start of the Floyd County 4-H Fair and Mainstream will have a booth there for the first time! Come visit our booth to learn about Mainstream and our process, meet the team, and enter to win a cooler full of s’more making goodies and some lawn chairs! (As well as a number of other fun …
We here at Mainstream Fiber Networks hope you all had a Happy Halloween, despite the weather. Last night, for the second year, Mainstream Fiber took part in Harrison County’s Trick or Treat at the Track event, where over 1000 kids and parents braved the rain to trick or treat. It was a great event full of great costumes and great people, not to mention over 1000 lit Jack-O-Lanterns! It was an incredibly fun event, and we’re all looking forward to be a part of it again next year! In the meantime, we hope that you all enjoy the rest of …
Mainstream Fiber Networks is proud to announce that we have built over 120 miles of fiber optic cable infrastructure through Harrison County. This includes both our mainline project as well as several adjoining neighborhoods that had high participation in our interest survey. Because of this, we are now able to provide our services to approximately 10,000 households in the area, and that number will only continue to grow over the upcoming years. The neighborhoods we are currently serving are listed at the bottom of this page. Mainstream Fiber is the only 100% fiber optic to the home internet service provider in …
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Many of you have been asking for reliable high speed internet service, and it has arrived! Our team is now constructing a 100% fiber network in Floyd County. Mainstream provides fiber to the home or business internet and phone service, with minimal speeds starting at 50 mbps and ranging up to 1 GB. Our plan is to construct several miles of mainline fiber throughout Floyd County, but we will also expand off of this mainline based on the amount of interest in the surrounding areas. So, how do I get service? Construction may have already started in your neighborhood! Construction …
Several internet service providers around will advertise their incredible speeds, even us here at Mainstream Fiber, but the dirty little secret that many other service providers have is that although they do provide significant speed, that speed also comes with some baggage called data caps and throttling. You may have seen it under the speed package descriptions on other ISPs marketing materials or website, a couple lines of small print that read something like, “Download speed only guaranteed for the first 24 Gigabytes downloaded per month, after that speed will decrease to…” or “There is a data cap at 15 …
Beginning on Wednesday, July 25th next week, and concluding on August 1st, Mainstream Fiber is organizing a scavenger hunt in Harrison County called “Follow the Fiber”. What is “Follow the Fiber?” Well, you may have noticed our trucks and workers all along Harrison County, building a fiber optic infrastructure, this has all been to finish the Harrison County Loop, a massive project where we built over 115 miles of fiber optic infrastructure all around Harrison County, and the loop itself is getting close to being finished. In order to celebrate, we’ve decided to put on this event. As stated above, …
Although Mainstream Fiber’s fiber optic internet cable can transfer data at a phenomenal rate (at speeds nearing the speed of light), sometimes the wireless network it arrives on can slow it down significantly. Here, I’ll try to explain why this might be happening, as well as give you potential solutions on how to fix it and make sure that your speed is exactly as fast as you need it. Wired vs Wireless The simplest way to avoid internet slowdown is to not use a wireless network, but to instead run an Ethernet cable from your router to your device. Ethernet cables …