Open Air Wireless

03/02/2026

All dictators or wannabe dictators wage war.

05/20/2025

North McHenry tower site is down again! ComEd is on site dealing with power lines or trees rubbing against them on fire. This is the same area that caused the outage last week. If they would only fix it right! It would also be nice if they would post it on their outage map!

12/28/2024

Paramount + chooses not to allow clients to select a lower resolution. I'm going to keep press on them. i'll keep you all posted.

My comment on this post asked them why. Doesn't look like it came with the repost.

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12/27/2024

CALLING ALL PARAMOUNT PLUS SUBSCRIBERS! Please reach out to us regarding your experience with streaming Paramount Plus. The first issue hit my desk 12/22 regarding error messages and buffering. I tried to watch movie on the 24th and experienced buffering.

It was obvious the stream was 4k. I have enough speed to accommodate 4k, yet it was still buffering. I looked all over the application for a way to scale resolution, like Netflix and Prime allow. No dice!!! I chatted with them only to get bad information.

Today, I called and was told they do not have that capability. Seems like a stupid corporate decision. Retain customers who have lower bandwidth connections and lower their own demand for bandwidth and associated costs. A win win for all involved.

So to all of you having problems with Paramount Plus, don't waste your time with their Chat Bot. Call 888-274-5343 and ask them how to reduce the video resolution to full HD-1080. When they say they can't, make sure you let them know this will affect retention of their services.

11/12/2021

Open Air Wireless honors all those who have served our country in the Armed Forces. We are happy to say we employ a veteran. He gets Veteran's day off EVERY year. It's the least we can do. I wish all companies would do the same.

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09/11/2021

Open Air Wireless remembers those event that occurred 20 years ago. I will never forget where I was and what I was doing. All those who died and all those who continue to survive and endure their loss, will forever be in my thoughts.

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08/26/2021

Hey folks in Burlington and east Lake Geneva! Just put out a group email to warn of maintenance that will occur tonight between 10 and 11PM. We are getting software current in some transmitters and changing some frequencies to mitigate interference that has popped up recently.

Our plan is to link the Cranberry Rd tower back to the core of the network with a FCC licensed frequency radio link in the next 90 days. That will improve through-put and stability. More to follow...

08/10/2021

We are ready to start moving clients over the the Thomsen Road tower. We will start tomorrow and we are offering double finders fee ($50 instead of $25) for any referral that results in a NEW client on the Thomsen tower. This offer ends at the end of August 2021.

08/10/2021

It was a tough weather day in the world of wireless internet. Down pours and lots of lightning made it difficult to keep the internet flowing. We kept our fingers on the pulse and kicked equipment in the shorts as lightning attempted to blow the programming out of the equipment. Then there was equipment that was toast and simply need to be replaced. NERVE RACKING!!!

Then you get a note from a customer that puts it into perspective.

07/09/2021

How exciting! We are getting ready to erect a new tower. Where? Off of Walberg road in Burlington. Concrete Monday. 44 feet on a nice hill. Going to provide internet options to a whole new group of folks. And improve the service to the clients nearby.