- Date
- 2002-09-01
- Kind
- Opening
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationcommercecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Great Lakes Energy completed the Beaver Island Internet upgrade before its September 1, 2002 changeover. The October report says dial-up speeds improved from 31.2 kbps to 45–52 kbps with compression, with few dropped connections and wireless equipment installed for some in-town users.
Evidence limits
The account is an early user report, not a network-performance study, coverage map, or service-level agreement.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 2002, “GLE Internet up and running.”Reports GLE completing the upgrade ahead of the September 1 changeover, dial-up speeds rising from 31.2 kbps to 45–52 kbps with compression, fewer dropped connections, and wireless equipment installed in town. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the GLE upgrade report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Great Lakes Energy completes Beaver Island’s Internet upgrade ahead of the September 1, 2002 changeover”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-gle-internet-upgrade-september-1-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2002, “GLE Internet up and running.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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