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We are currently working on upgrading several access points with new equipment.   Service upgrades to our Loganville towers are on the current schedule and are planning on being completed by April 10, 2016.   Additional upgrades to Leland, Wards Corners, are coming by April 25, 2016. Our new Cable DSL offering to the village of Loganville is planned for June 1, 2016.  We will be posting more details here as we get closer to turning up our new services and bandwidth offerings.    

WIconnect Wireless Receives Wisconsin Public Service Commission Broadband Expansion Grant WIConnect Wireless LLC is proud to announce that it has received a grant from the Wisconsin Broadband Expansion Project in the amount of $35,469. This grant will be used to expand our High Speed internet services to underserved areas of Iowa, Grant and Richland Counties. We will be working with local land owners, business owners, and communities to expand our internet services to these underserved rural communities. We worked with the Prosperity Southwest Wisconsin Regional Economic Development and Computer Connections of WI Inc to build the current plan of expansion.   If you are a Land owner with a tall structure including a Silo, Grain Silo, Tower Structure, or tall building please contact us to find out how you may help…

What is the HeartBleed Bug? By now, many of you have likely heard of the HeartBleed Bug.  The severity of this kind of breech has been described as an 11 on a scale of 1 - 10.  Why is it so severe?  You can read the official introductory text below: The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs). The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL…

OUTAGE ALERT: WICW will be upgrading this server on Friday evening from 19:00 to 21:00.  Your internet services will not be affected, but your email will not be accessible during this time.   WIConnect is announcing an upgrade to our mail server.  With a new theme for more streamlined webmail access, and more advanced features for our business clients, we are happy to announce this update.  The process should be seamless for most of our users, but as always, please let us know if you have any issues or questions.