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Chapel provides high speed Internet service via
a state-of-the-art wireless broadband system.
Unlike DSL or cable modem we do not depend on
the availability of legacy telephone or cable TV
infrastructure. Unlike satellite our performance
does not suffer from the delay associated with a
23,000-mile path up and down.A small 3” x 11”
antenna (see picture at bottom) mounted on the customer’s roof connects
directly to one of our base stations located
within a distance of 4-5 miles. The base
stations are in turn connected to a high-speed
backhaul connection to Chapel's Datacenter and
then passed onto the Internet.
The air-link between the customer and the base
station is a proprietary system that uses
authentication and encryption to protect against
rogue users and attackers.
The customer antenna connects to a broadband
router via a standard CAT 5 Ethernet cable. A
surge suppressor and grounding is included to
protect the customer’s equipment from lightning
or static discharges. An AC adapter powers the
antenna over the CAT 5 cable. The
intrusion into the house is approximately the
same size as the telephone wire.
The router acts as a firewall to protect the
customer’s home network from Internet attackers
and is an administrative demarcation point that
allows customers to build their home network
independently. Chapel s believes that home
networking is an area of tremendous innovation
that we wish to support. Customers do not pay
extra for multiple computers and are free to use
the Internet as much as they like, subject only to
their own restrictions.
