Archive: December 26, 2019

Saying Goodbye to 2019

Closing out 2019

Well 2019 has surely been an interesting year.  The only thing that remains worth saying in our eyes I would suppose is;

“That which doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.”

Pretty much sums up Hyper Fusion’s year.  Clearly since we have made our adjustments from this summer, they where both needed and drastically helped.  Our network is back to fire fast with all 16 of our repeater sites firing as expected and both of our fiber to the home DMARCS now operational and firing strong and customers who where getting only 15 Mbps speed tests, now getting 100 Mbps + speed tests we couldn’t be happier.  Proof is in the pudding.  Clearly expunging what was needed did the trick.

Hyper Fusion is rapidly on its way to not only becoming a top notch professional Texas company, but also rapidly on its way to being the dominant internet provider in the Greater Highland lakes area.  We are constructing, installing, and selling our OWN private fiber.  We are not calling up AT & T and having them install circuits and then slapping our sticker on it.  We are bringing in BRAND NEW infrastructure and its taking some time over the last 6 months to deliver that but we’re FINALLY there and both rural and in Burnet and Kempner, fiber to the home and business is now possible in several different areas.  With this as a result, we’ve decided to pay no attention to the fact that the other guys still try to copy us and simply just fall short.

Coming in 2020!

In the year ahead Hyper Fusion will remain committed to fine tuning our process, building up our network, caring for our loyal customer base first, and always striving to improve our network, services, and products.  We will be focusing on beefing up each and every repeater site we currently operate so that EVERYONE will have at least 2 tower to tower multi-gigabit capable backbones, and we will also be fiber connecting as many of our repeater sites as possible for the primary links to ensure network stability.  We’re also looking forward to rolling out IPv6 so there will be unlimited free IP’s for everyone!  Another big roll out for us coming in 2020 is our Hyper Vision Cloud TV service.  We are getting close to wrapping up the 2nd of the 3 development phases during alpha testing.  Our On Demand trans-coding servers are nearly production ready and we have a massive library of over 200 complete TV series and 1000 movies already in our library.  The final piece we are working on is the live TV.  We have 23 channels now streaming and recording to the Cloud DVR correctly.  In a few weeks we will be completing the web interface, Android App, and Nintendo Switch App, which these 3 platforms will be our 3 launch platforms for the Hyper Vision Cloud TV service.  So be sure to check back to our website for posts regarding this because when we do our public beta release of our Hyper Vision Cloud TV product, since a streaming service will be launched state wide and available to ALL of Texas no matter where you live.

Current Customer Updates

Our field staff will be visiting every repeater site over the next week or so to conduct the updates that have been discussed in the real-time network news channel on our slack work-space.  As I’m sure many of you have seen from the ridiculous 200 Mbps + speed tests some folks have been getting with almost everyone hitting over 100 Mbps + speeds now, even the super far away customers.  While we do this customers will burp and go up and down.   We should be complete by Jan. 3rd.  With the exception of those customers who have been contacted, we will be resuming normal field work on Jan. 6th when our winter break ends.  Live customer support agents will return to their stations on Jan. 7th.

When our live customer support agents return, we will have our phone system freshly updated as well.  Please bear in mind, when you call in between Tuesday and Friday between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, you need to listen to the message, in the message, it says, press 1 to speak with a live customer support agent.  Chris will be doing some heavy updating to ensure the phone queue works correctly.  We are now going to be having 2 people logged in to take phone calls and answer web chat support requests over our website.  Another thing we’re going to be ensuring that ALL of our staff comb thru tickets every day to make sure everyone is getting replied to no matter what the issue is.

We are down to just a handful of customer issues from the summer time and those customers waiting for resolution on those accounts will be cleared up over the next couple weeks finally as we need to complete finishing up paying off the last of our taxes and other bills from 2019 to close out the mess we were left which has now been nearly completely cleaned up by the new qualified management team.

Thank you for all your support everyone, and we wish everyone the best 2020 that they can have!

The Team @ Hyper Fusion

Holiday 2019 Weekend Update

Burnet Fusion Fiber Rollout

As you can see from our first FTTH (Fiber to the Home) download test, we are screaming.  Faster than any other provider by far.  We are the new GOLD STANDARD for The Greater Highland Lakes Rural Internet.  NO OTHER provider drills their own fiber or has the certified staff to do so.  Accept no substitute, the future of internet in this area is here.

Holiday 2019 Schedule

Our entire Hyper Fusion office will be shutting down at the end of the day Friday at 3PM to close for our Winter Break until Jan. 2nd.  During this time, no live customer support staff or office staff will be available however, Emili can assist with basic things.  Our NOC will have an on call engineer watching the network in case of emergency as well as 1 on call field staff in case of emergency repair.

Additionally, due to another recent posting somewhere, which we haven’t figured out yet, we’ve had yet another explosion of new service requests.  As much as it is a pain in the butt, we are now COMPLETELY BOOKED OUT FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY.  So, if you sign up for service, please note, although we can get your survey conducted in January, you will not be able to be installed until February, so please ONLY register if you are willing to wait.  We are in super high demand as you can see from the speed test above as a result.  We, unlike most providers, take the time and care to carefully correct all issues in our network and customer portal system.  We are also taking the time to upgrade some key repeater sites that where horribly damaged by staff that are no longer with us.

Hyper Vision Cloud TV Update

As we get nearer our public beta release of our Hyper Vision Cloud TV service, we are now rolling out the live TV functions of the service.  Our on-demand / DVR / Streaming library and basic interface which we’re using a 3rd part interface, but the transcoding and server processing is done in house, and the new Hyper Vision proprietary interface will be launched with the public beta.  With that, we are looking for 10 more ACTIVE AND IN GOOD STANDING Hyper Fusion customers to join our alpha testing for the live TV functions and Cloud DVR functions.  We are also looking for a special 5 users to help test the Hyper Vision Nintendo Switch Application.  That’s right folks, we have finally received our Nintendo Switch dev kit and will be launching our officially licensed Nintendo Switch Hyper Vision Cloud TV app starting with the Switch.  Get access to all your TV, DVR, on the go or at home with your switch!  With my new compression I’m able to hit a full 1080 HD while only using 1.5 to 2 Mbps of internet to drastically save on mobile data while your out and about.  Just check out the little video. =)  If your interested, just private message @HFT-Chris  and he will get you info and you’ll need to ask him if you want to be an alpha test.  It costs nothing right now, and is 100% free.  We will be selecting 5 of the alpha testing group to beta test the new mobile TV boxes / 4G LTE hotspots / Mobile power desktop / Gaming PC / 100% zero cords plug into it plugless TV box, set top box hybrid device thingys, lol.  We’re calling them Hyper Vision Boxes as a prototype name, but I’m sure our awesome business team will come up with some kewl name..

Real Time Network News Update

So, surely seems like Slack was the way to go.  We’re pushing almost 1/4 of our customer base is in our slack chat now, so we’re hoping to get at least 75% of our customer base in there, so for those of you who haven’t done so yet, login to your Fusion Portal, click on your control panel, and the button to jump in our real time network news chat is in there.  ALL of our staff are in there, and when they are not, our AI built in house, is able to answer some basic questions.   We are building quite a set of tools from help files from Emili, to network settings short cuts, all kinds of things and our customers are LOVING IT.

Weekend Update for December 7th

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New Realtime Network News Chat Chosen

Hey folks, just to let everyone know, we have finally settled on Slack as our new platform for our Realtime Network News customer chat.  We have all our staff in there as well.  So, EVERYONE can always get network status questions and be in the know.  And as you can see from the speed test results, making the change we did over the summer was CERTAINLY what the doctor ordered.  The results speak for themselves.

In order to get into our Slack Workspace, you must be a currently active customer and login to your Fusion Portal online, and then click on the “Control Panel” link on the left hand side of your Fusion portal, as pictured and you’ll see a “Join Us On Slack” button there.  It is a good idea to sign up for a free Slack account first.  It’s 100% free, only requires your email address, and you can set any display name you like, so its super privacy friendly.   https://www.slack.com   Once you’ve signed up, then login to your Fusion Portal and click the button.  We’ll see you there! =)

DATA THRU PUT

We also recently saw one of our competitors posted their overall network usages for a 7 day period which clocked out at a little over 25 TB.  Below is a screen shot out of JUST 1 of our campground park wide systems.  As you can see, we push well over twice that off just a SINGLE customer.  Our 1 campground does more than twice the amount of thru put as that particular competitor.  We clearly outclass most other competitors in our market.  This is what you can expect from an internet company founded by technology folks and not business folks.  Clearly we know what the business guys are after.  We are professional technology people folks, with 60+ years of technology experience behind our top 3 technology partners, it shows in our results, how much data we move, and the fact that we’re the ONLY rural provider for hundreds of miles that does fiber and rural fiber IN HOUSE, and once we have our live Streaming TV launched sometime next year; we WILL be the top rated and top grossing provider in the Greater Highland Lakes and Central Texas areas.  Every day we are drilling with our customer support and staying on our field team to keep their amazing work going!

BURNET SOUTH FIBER WILL BE GOING LIVE THIS WEEK EVERYONE!!!

Competitors Copying Us

We’ve also had several folks ask us what we’re going to do about the other competitors blatantly copying our website posts, and other functions of our business model, the short answer; nothing, as copying is the sincerest form of flattery and clearly have no ability to come up with unique ideas on their own.  Besides, Hyper Fusion is happy to lead the way in the gold standard of rural internet and happy to lead the way and show others how to do it properly so everyone can thrive and flourish.

Feeding trolls is a complete waste of time.  Besides, we are busy out installing new customers and building new repeater sites, while they are stuck at their office, busy copying our work, and when they can’t duplicate it, they just call up AT & T, let them install it, and than slap their sticker on it and call it a day.  That’s not what we do.  We’re also not going to be making any more social media posts about it, or even entertain it anymore.  We kindly ask that our current and future customer base, just accept that we are far to busy to even give it a second thought and with only a single tower, it won’t be long before they go out of business anyhow.  We are no longer even concerned with any facebook posts, so we’re just going to let that horse stay dead and buried once and for all.  We are far to busy building a professional company, and providing LIVE internet services to customers all across Burnet, Lampasas, Llano, Belle, and Williamson counties.  We kindly thank everyone in advance.

Rural Broadband in 2019

As I’m sure many of you know, even in our local area, broadband in 2019 has still been a hairy situation for the Highland Lakes, even 2 years into 5 plus new providers.  Rural broadband continues to be a struggle, not only for consumers to get services, but for small and even medium size providers to be able to impact this.  There’s been a lot of chatter on Facebook groups regarding 4G providers coming into this specific area to offer home internet, lots of talk about 5G going to change the market, but the fact of the matter is, that is just not true.

Bigger providers like the big box wireless and big box data names are purely focused on the metro markets.  Regardless of what you may have heard.  There have been PLENTY of news stories put out how many cable TV providers and wireless providers, even though they have mobile service, focus on metro areas, as that’s where most of the people reside.  So if your one of the hold outs for this, your gonna be on that bus an awful long time waiting for it to arrive.

President Obama tried to do something about it, and failed horribly.  Even President Trump tried, but somehow, took a cheap route out, and instead of actually helping the problem, simply lowered the standard enough, so that that it landed at the speeds of most 4G LTE networks to claim he “got everyone broadband”.  Cheap way out.  And if that wheren’t enough, we have big box data trying to buy up the spectrum that small WISP’s and RISP’s like ours are relying on to continue upgrading our networks.  The simple matter of the situation folks is, there is no internet coming from any big box company, not for many, many, years.  If the Highlands Area has any hope of getting broadband like all the rest of metro America we need to band together and build our own brand new network.

Watch the YouTube video below posted on the channel @Vox which has pretty reliable sources to get you started on your hunt for information on why internet is still spotty in this area in 2019.  Don’t just take my word on it, or the information you get out of the video, but use it as a jump point for you to do your own research.  Read for yourself those Connect America documents and the misinformation that’s in them.  On the surface it leads less informed folks to belive, that as some in some facebook groups claim, is coming.  I like to present people with all the information at hand, at let them decide for themselves.  Our customer base are bright and informed individuals.  Just because we live out in the sticks doesn’t mean we don’t want highspeed broadband internet like the rest of America.

 

So, I suppose by now, your asking yourself, okay Mr. Hyper Fusion CEO, what do you plan to do about it?  Well, as I’m sure many of you already know, Hyper Fusion exploded way to big, way to fast.  We’ve taken a dedicated approach over the last 2 months to put in lots of extra hours in our field not only going back to upgrade our existing tower infrastructure, but also, do go back and re-tune alot of our original customers and get cracking on ramping up piling thru our new service request backlogs.  As our new customer sign rate has once again surged, the most recent round of updates and their results have no doubt gotten around.  After repairing all the damage from previous unskilled and untrained staff we are about 75% complete with repairing this damaged and those areas that are now back to the insane speeds they where, we aim to make a heavy push on installing as many folks as we can over the winter.  We have gone back thru each and every circuit 1 by 1 for our year end audit to identify week circuits and will be super beefing up everything we already have over the next 4 to 8 weeks thru the winter so that come spring time we can get back to building new repeaters and expanding and offering other folks awesome prices on internet.

The primary problem with internet in this area, with many of the other providers, is every one of those providers in Lampasas is feeding off AT & T’s already over exhausted fiber network out there and are all squabbling over a customer here and a customer there.  Additionally, you have the City of Lampasas trying to deploy their own fiber network and charge EVERY citizen for it, regardless if they have internet, as I’m told, this is their line of thinking.  If I where them, I’d probably think twice.  Texas State Law to the best of my knowledge, specifically says this illegal for a municipality to own or operate, either directly, or in-directly thru a 3rd party provider, wherein the municipality has any influence or control.  So, having another local provider do it for them, as one of them as claimed they are doing, is actually highly against Texas State Law.

We’re not looking to take advantage of folks like this, that’s why our subscription rates are on ave, 30% lower than any other provider in our class.  Our website traffic ranking continues to increase and out traffics all other competitors, including Rise Broadband and Grande Communications.  Don’t believe us?  Visit https://www.alexa.com  ( powered by Amazon folks ) and look for yourself.  Every day more and more posts are going up from the last several weeks and drastic shift in Hyper Fusion as a whole.  We don’t ever want our customers to feel ignored, or passed over.  We are going to make an extreme push over the month of December thru until Christmas to continue to answer every phone call and reply to every ticket.  We are very quickly getting caught up now that we have another full time field engineer who can climb towers!!  Blake continues to amaze us all and has become instrumental in getting Hyper Fusion’s field back together.  Additionally, we have an outstanding new business management and accounting team who has managed to get all our bills, tower rents, and most other affairs all back going the right direction and has us well on our way to becoming a power house in the central Texas rural internet market.

It has taken Will more than 5 months to put the field back together and he’s still not all the way complete yet.  He is a machine and continues to amaze all of us how it is that between Will and Blake there is twice as much work getting done during the 2nd half of the year, as compared to the first half of the year when we had a total of 4 running around thinking they knew what they where doing.  Clear, the proof is in the pudding as they say.  As we bring 2019 to a close, we’re also making a commitment as a company and a staff to put the past behind us and forget about all those folks who have tried to poke at Hyper Fusion as we grew.  We survived.  We remain.  We VOW that we will fight at all costs to make sure Hyper Fusion continues to be around for generations to come and we will never stop fighting for what’s right, and we aim to fulfill  those gaps in rural broadband by bringing OUTSIDE providers, and not just re-selling AT & T, we remain committed to always operating our own wireless and fiber network IN-HOUSE and not having a 3rd party company operate our gear and network for us and claim its ours.  We remain committed to NEVER call AT & T up, to order an install at a customer location, and when they are complete and its working, simply slap our sticker on it and call it ours.    We install our own right of way infrastructure, we run our own cable to customer locations, we PRIVATELY OWN the fiber we lay.   We do all our web programming in-house as well as all of our wireless network administration.  That’s why other WISP’s continue to fail, yes, they may know “how to link a radio” but they know nothing about network design, gear selection, real time network monitoring and administration, proactively reacting to daily changing wireless environments, and protecting networks from internet threats.

Burnet Fiber To The Home & Business Launches!

That’s right folks, we have now finally completed our Burnet Fiber Gateway & DMARC.  We have access to more then a dozen 10 Gig / 100 Gig Fiber lines, so WAY MORE than the entire city will ever use.  We are hoping to fiber connect every building in town just as fast as we can.  To get started, we are launching our Fiber To The Home & Business in the area listed below first.  The first 10 residential or business customers to sign up will be installed before Christmas!!  However, to get one of these coveted spots, you must select a 2 year agreement and remit all your construction surcharges to get installed.

Remember folks, this is hardline fiber directly connected to our upstream fiber provider who maintains almost an exclusively Texas wide network across all major cities.  All fiber plans come with a 99.9% uptime SLA guarantee.

CLICK HERE to sign up and get all the details.

 

DON’T GET FOOLED by other providers claiming to have fiber when they don’t, they are just reselling AT & T.  Unless your provider has a Right of Way Permit issued by the city ( which are public records by the way ), it’s NOT their fiber.  If your provider recently dug their own fiber, they will have photos like the phones listed below.  We are the ONLY provider in the hill country to deliver our OWN Fiber to the Home & Business.  We don’t just slap our sticker over AT & T’s and call it our own.  We pull our permits, provide the necessary proof of technical knowledge, and obtain our permits to operate in the right of ways and are in tight communication with all the other utility companies that also reside in those right of ways.  Something the other guys, CLEARLY don’t do.  We’ve also posted pictures of one of our fiber to the home installations, as you can see, we’re digging our own privately owned fiber here people.  This is born in the Greater Highland Lakes area, and made just for the citizens of the Greater Highland Lakes Area.

Next up for Fusion Fiber is installation of our Briggs Fiber DMARC and Wireless Repeater Site.  Then who knows where we will go!

Thanksgiving 2019 Update

Overview

I’m sure as many of you know, over the last several months there’s been a drastic increase, and improvement across all areas of Hyper Fusion.  The network is faster, customer support has drastically improved, appointments are being kept on time, and the backlog is being piled through in a hurry.  The proof is in the pudding as they say.  It seems we are doing FAR better.  All the way around.  We have a new field person who actually installs our circuits to code, a well trained new live customer support person, and we also have an insanely good  business management team. Also we have welcomed our new awesome Accounting Manager whose really help to shift the tide here at Hyper Fusion.

As a reminder, our current primary office phone number is ( 512 ) 790  – 2250

Our Live Customer Support Agent Hours:  Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4PM

South Network Exhaustion Progress

We have finally have power at our Burnet Gateway Fiber DMARC site.  FINALLY! We are now just waiting on our upstream provider to come out and deliver our device to get this network cooking.  The uplink to Burnet Main has already been installed and already measured at the full 1.5 Gbps transfer rate between our Burnet Main tower to our new gateway site.  This will be a massive upgrade from the current 0.3 Gbps transfer rate we have now.  Our primary gateway access to the internet will also be fully off the Spectrum Coax that went 300 Mbps down by 20 Mbps, to a circuit connection that runs at 1,000 Mbps down and up!  This will no doubt make anyone connected to the south network screaming fast and resolve those exhaustion issues.  We will make a public post on our site once it is hot, although most of you will see the difference as soon as you use your internet. Please be advised that when we do go hot at our DMARC that you may lose service for 5-10 minutes while we make the change, but you will come right back up with faster speeds.

Realtime Network News Chat Officially Moves to Slack

If you are an active Hyper Fusion customer and want to join the new real time news group chat, simply login to your portal, and on the left hand menu, click on Control Panel, and as in the example screenshot below, you’ll see the slack button.  Just make sure you have signed up for a slack account.  Why the move to slack?  Well, for starters, hangouts will eventually be going away, and we didn’t want to use any service tied to Facebook or Google, Apple. We also needed a chat that Emili could interface with. We offer this chat as a service to our customers as a courtesy and we feel Slack is the best choice for Hyper Fusion.

Slack has a web interface, android app, and an apple app, so no matter which way you’d like to use it, there is an interface for you.

New Live Customer Support Agent Has Joined The Live CSA Pool

We’re pleased to announce we have a new agent working our Live CSA Pool.  That means, during all normal live customer support hours ( Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 4PM ) she will be answering phones and taking web chat support requests from visitors on our website.  As I’m sure some of you have started to notice, nearly every call is being answered now.

Holiday Hours

The following list of days our live customer support call center will be closed:

November 27 – December 1st ( Thanksgiving )

December 21st – Jan 6th ( Christmas Break )

Our field staff be off the following days:

November 28th – December 1st ( Thanksgiving )

December 24th – December 29th ( Christmas Break )

January 1st – New Years Day Freebie

Halloween Weekend Update

First, we would like to apologize we havn’t posted a weekend update in a few weekends as we have been busy helping in the field and conducting other business so we figured we would put out this weekends update a little early as we move into the weekend.  As the month draws to a close there have been some ups, and there have been some downs.  I figure best to start with the downs.

Google Hangouts Closing & New Platform for Realtime News Group Chat Required

As much as it sucks we’ve known for sometime this was going away.  We have created a voting form for all our loyal customers to choose the new platform we move to in order to handle the realtime news group chat.  We have selected the choices based off our programmers knowledge and abilities to link them into our communications platform.  Voting will close Nov. 1st and that weekend we will impliment the top voted platform for the new real time news group chat.  Here is a link to the anonymous voting form:

https://forms.gle/bzJLndP1qn1Fe4uB9

Kempner North

Monday, November 4th we have a scheduled job to take down the North network completely.  We’re having to repair the fiber line that one of our old terminated staff from this summer attempted to do and turns out they can not terminate fiber like we had expected.  In some rare cases during heavy network load speeds off random customers are effected by this so we are replacing all the ends and calling in a professional fiber company to fix the ends since this particular staff whom we can not name refuses to return our fiber tools so that we can and those are specialized tools that you can’t just go down to the home depot and buy.  We are going to do this early in the morning at 7 am, and shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete.  Additionally, we will be installing a full professional dual cabinet fiber DMARC ground mounted fiber DMARC equipment enclosure with our shiny new permit to put in the right of way as the Primary Lampasas County Fiber Gateway, and we will be removing the shaddy old equipment shed that’s there now as well as completely replacing all lines on the tower and upgrading the west and south access points to the super heavy duty big Gen 6 chesty access points.

Additionally as 580 Midway ( Little Repater ) and Adamsville South ( yes, that’s adamsville south, we do have a repeater a good 18 to 20 miles north of Lampasas we’ve never announced until now ) are growing, we will be adding 2 dedicated backbone radios for both of those sites since they are currently connecting to the west AP and causing it to clog up with traffic at peak times.  We will also be adding a full DC circuit with 4 day batter system to prevent any stupid power problems and a chesty lightning arresting system.   We will be making climbs here and there completing this in phases and completing it with the fiber being repaired and the kempner North site officially becoming the Lampasas County Gateway.

In order to merge the 2 networks into one, and get it so all customer circuits can use either gateway depending on weather its up or down, or under heavy load or light load, we have to add some networking gear to several of our tower sites, so this will take some time to complete.  Once we are complete with this process we can fully roll out the IPv6 network and no more X-Box problems for anyone.

Briggs / Arrowhead

For reasons we can not release yet we had to disassemble the Arrowhead repeater.  We will be moving it over the next 2 weeks to another location we had been working on lining up.  Thru going out there to recover our gear and our utility pole transport trailer, we have learned it had been damaged and destroyed beyond repair.  As such, the Briggs installations will have to be delayed a week so we can hire a transport company to come move the utility poles for us.  This situation ended up completely outside our control and we do apologize about this and will get the work completed just as soon as we can.  We know there are lots of folks in that area and a few businesses anxiously waiting on this site to be completed.

Burnet South Fiber Gateway

We’ve had a delay with the power situation, seems our work order got screwed up somewhere when we had ordered a 125amp service, we purchased all 125amp rated gear and our power pedistal got a 200amp main so we’re waiting for that to come get switched out next week so we can get our power meter installed and the fiber fired up.

Equrina Big Tower

The big insane huge tower trench for the Equrina big tower and preparation of the tower base foundation and guy points is all set to be complete with concrete dropped mid next week and we will be building the tower with in a few days after that pending weather works with us.

7 Creeks Backbone Repair

We should be making the climb on Burnet Main for this repair on Monday.  All 7 creeks customers are still effected by the wonky speed issue.

Kingsland North

We will be adding a chesty full gig backbone radio pair from Eagles Nest to Kingsland North.  Kingsland is one of our fast growing areas so its just time.  We’re hoping to do this mid next week and the few active customers that are down or having had completed installs will be completed the same day and couple of days after.

Council Creek ( North Lake Buchanan / Spider Mount area / Wolf Creek )

Our Council Creek repeater site is rock solid now and we will be adding a chesty full gig backbone radio pair from Eagles Nest as well to serve that area.  That area is also one of our faster growing areas.   We will be completing a bigger permanent tower at the same site after Halloween and all the customers out there will be re-pointed to the new tower right after.

Kempner Main / Chica Ranch

This is our very next big job up as soon as weather allows.  We will be raising the Kempner Main tower located at the Our Friends 2 park an additional 20 feet and putting up the SUPER beefy radio pair we just took down from arrowhead up which will super charge this link, and provide WELL more than enough bandwidth for all our current customers and about another 75 to 80 customers we’re calculating, but to keep everyone speedy, we’re going to limit it to 50 until we get Kempner North hardline fiber connected.

Chica Ranch Fiber To The Home

We have just 2 more land owners to get in touch with to get the clearances that Hamilton requires for us to hang fiber to chica.  We do have our DMARC site secured and ready to go just still working on the leg work.  We’re REALLY hoping to get it in before black friday, but it’s probably going to be in December before the first installs start going in.We just finally got out there to repair the original fiber to the home customer we had live that one of the old staff we terminated this summer cut trenched and cut right thru.

Drastic Overall Performance Increase

As some of you know, and some of you don’t, we had a drastic change in staff in the beginning of June of this summer.  Additionally we there was the tornado in Kempner that took out our Kempner South repeater site and roughly 80 customer circuits that had been installed by the staff that where terminated that they took short cuts on and didnt’ install guy lines or improperly installed mounts and all the damage caused by the storm from these improper installations.  Will has worked tirelessly since then to repair everyone, and we’re down to less than 10 left.  He’s also repaired alot of the tower work that the previous staff had drastically messed up as well.

For the most part, our network is nearly back to 100% now.   Since Will is fully back at the help of Hyper Fusion and had full control back of everything and flushed the inferior staff and replaced them with much more capable folks we’ve had a drastic shift all the way around on all fronts.  Our new office manager has managed to help get us all in shape to pick up our customer support response and communication which has drastically improved.  Our new business manager / CFO whose actually qualified to be doing that sort of work with multiple decades of experience has managed to work with a books person we hired to completely rebuild our books from scratch, gotten all our sales tax, and federal taxes, and all that jazz all filed and caught up since they where behind and even got a good chunk of them paid and well on our way to having them all paid off.  We’ve gotten alot of our backbills caught up and other annoying little things left un-done done and complete.  Revenues are up, service quality is getting better, and we’re about to have a major upgrade to the south network.  Our Alexa traffic ranking graph over the past 90 days along with the revenue increases and our new properly formed business team have really managed to get Hyper Fusion back on track and well on our way to becoming the dominant internet provider in the Greater Highland Lakes area.  Just look at the Alexa rankings from our competitors below.  Proof is in the pudding folks.

On a much bigger note, we are just a few weeks away from releasing our first new custom radios with built in backup 4G LTE connections.  That’s right folks, we’re packing the power of the mobile hotspot right into our radios so your never all the way out of internet. Our new custom radio comes with built in 4G LTE fail over back up provided by our nationwide 4g LTE partner and get all the benifits of the several new 4G LTE providers right into your fixed point wireless radio and never have to worry about being totally out of internet again.  If your interested in one of these new custom radios that you can ONLY get thru Hyper Fusion cause we’re building em ourselves, then email sales@hyperfusiontech.com  with 4G LTE backup radio in the subject line, and we’ll get you on the list.

Week Ending Oct 5th

Last Weeks Work

Another successful 200 Mbps x 200 Mbps fiber to the home installation. Look at that really pretty 10ms ping time.

So everyone managed to get ALOT of work done last week.  We’ve  managed to get our Burnet Fiber gateway power post and everything installed so we can light up Briggs with live service, as well as the Burnet Fiber to the Home & Business DMARC.  We’re getting ever closer to linking the networks into one massive much stronger network.  We are OFFICIALLY THE ONLY PROVIDER IN THE HILL COUNTRY in our class to have dual fiber gateways from 2 different providers.  Don’t be fooled folks, ALL the other providers in Lampasas County do nothing but re-sell AT & T fiber which has been there for years.  We also picked up gear for the remaining folks that are waiting on repairs.  Also, we have received good news that, Blake our newest field engineer, is moving from part time to full time at some point during this month so that should help alot.

The week Upcoming

So as I’m sure many of you know, until we get the networks both fully joined into a single network, we have a very tight scheduled, and it may have changed drastically from what was posted last week in real time news chat.  With that in mind, all day Monday we will be working on the big Equrina Fields tower.  This is a key tower in the network joining process.

Tuesday we will be trenching and fixing up some customers in Council Creek that have been waiting MONTHS for repairs.  As well we will be climbing Burnet Main to put up a new 7 Creeks backbone radio to resolve the weird issue out there.

Wednesday and Thursday we will have Blake and another gentleman in Kempner getting those customers fixed up and ready.  Due to Will and Chris having to finish up the Burnet folks and complete out the Briggs fiber DMARC installation, we will not be able to finish the Kempner Main repeater until monday of next week.

Thursday we will be in Lampasas finishing off a few repairs and a couple new installs so we’re full up on Thursday.  This Friday we do not have ANYTHING scheduled as we’re saving it for any work we miss this week to ensure that EVERYONE gets helped this week and all our tower and delivery network work get done.

Best Way to Get Help

As a reminder we have multiple people working support tickets now, and not all during normal business hours, as I’m sure many of you have noticed from times of reply.  We ask that everyone focus their request there when ever possible.  Go online, on your computer or phone and login to your Fusion Portal and click the support tab on the left.  We do however have live customer agents available Tuesday through Friday 10am to 4PM for phone and live website chat support if you prefer.  Outside of Live Support Agent hours, Emili, our AI, can also help you.  You can call, SMS, or send our Facebook page a message to interact with Emili.  She can give you all kinds of information.

Primary Phone Number: (512) 790 – 2250

Mailing Address:
Hyper Fusion, LLC
PO Box 1442
Burnet, TX 78611

Summer Recovery Information

It has come to our attention that there were some customer refunds that were not mailed out this summer.  If you are still expecting a refund from last year and didn’t get it, please email billing@hyperfusiontech.com   and we will get you fixed up right away.  Please be patient, we didn’t mean to over look those few folks that didn’t get them.  However, now that we have flushed the old staff that caused all those issues to begin with at the beginning of 2019, we’ve had no more issues with circuits and we’re down to less then 10 folks who have yet to be repaired system wide.  Just take a look at your customer number, we started with customer one.  And if you just signes up for services in the last 6 months, check your customer ID number ( we’re renaming this to your Account ID# now as well, just so everyone knows ) and you’ll know how many customers we have.  ALOT, lol. Especially for just a little company of less then 10 staff, and only 3 of those are field staff.

The Hyper Fusion Difference

Unlike any other provider in our class in our area, we install and deploy our own private fiber and we are the only provider to do so.  In order to do this, not only do you have to know what your doing, but you also have to prove to other agencies you know what your doing.  You also have to file for BUILDING PERMITS to be able to do work like this, especially in the public right of ways.  As you can see, Hyper Fusion has ZERO problems sharing this, as permits are public information anyhow.  No other provider has posted any permits at all.  Well, where are the photos of their guys installing it?  Where is there publicly available permits?  You just simply can’t find them because they don’t exist. The ONLY provider other than the big box that have been in the area to have been issued such permits is HYPER FUSION.  This fiber gateway location was super important to Hyper Fusion and the community because it is now able to service the Briggs fiber DMARC.  the Briggs location is DIRECTLY connected to the Burnet site, already.  We just have to go splice in some fiber cable ports to plug into our fiber routers and switches and away we go. ( Essentially, go put an cable end on the cable so it will plug into stuff ).

And the claims that we got some big outside investor is just not true. Hyper Fusion was and is 100% funded and fueled by our owners. Period.  Hyper Fusion was started FOR this area by folks FROM this area.  This is the reason we are going just a touch slower than normal, because our ownership pool and combination of company funds is what builds this.  Chris and Will earn every penny they get and dump it right back into the company.  They do not drive around in brand new trucks or run around in Armani suits.  Over the last 2 years, they have CLEARLY made a commitment to their community to provide the best possible internet at the best possible price.  Here are some photos below of the Burnet fiber location and Will working out in the country in the right of way, as our legally obtained permit allows us.  Don’t be tricked with getting stuck with AT & T through  another re-seller.  Get internet that runs on a TOTALLY separate network and never run the risk of getting stuck in the clog of AT & T fiber.

Additionally, as I’m sure you’ll see the odd photo out, we’ve created a brand new customer quick start guide.  That clearly breaks out all our little funny nuances about Hyper Fusion and how to get started with your new service to ensure help and communication is established right from the point of survey.  I’m sure most of you would have loved to have a quick start guide.  By next weekend we will be posting the QuickStart guide available for download and pdf format.

Week Ending Sep 28th

Upcoming Weeks Schedule

Monday – Tuesday – Now that we have our permit for our south fiber we will be working on the pieces to finish this off to light up all of our south networks with ALOT more internet and light up our Briggs site and we will be climbing to replace the 7 Creeks backbone.

Tuesday – Wednesday – We will be working on Kempner Main and getting the last of the Kempner customer repairs and waiting installs completed.

Wednesday – Thursday – We had to order mounts and things for Lampasas, those items should be in so that we can get the Lampasas repairs  and installs finished.

The Saturday Night Live season premier is on tonight folks! Be sure and check it out! Season 45!!!

Friday – We will be fine tuning Equrina and activating the new power uplink with the new fiber to Eagles Nest repeater, thusly feeding Kingsland and Council Creek with ALOT more internet.

Weekend Maintenance Completed

  • Updated our front end websites core software and plugin updates
  • Ran some massive updates on our portal server and added in 6 more CPU cores so the portal is fire fast again.
  • Installed new uplink radios on Lampasas East and Lampasas south doubling internet capacity at those sites.
  • Added some more help questions to Emili’s memory systems.  CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LIST OF TRIGGERS.
  • Completed configuring Burnet Fiber DMARC gear ready for deployment next week

Upgrades Completed

  • We have now completed upgrading our phone system so that it will process outage reports thru Emili’s Virtual Agent interface as well as voicemail support ticket creation when a caller calls during normal live customer support agent hours but no one happens to be available.
  • Redesigned customer invoices so they now include customers “customer since” date, Customer ID#, and other useful information for getting better customer support.
  • Added a new emergency notification bar to the top of our website.  When there’s a major issue effecting out network we will post it there.  When the issue is resolved it will disappear.  There’s a sample posted below.  We highly suggest, if you have no internet, but you have a phone with a 4g LTE data connection, to check our website.  If you don’t have enough data to accomplish that, then simply text our primary number 512-790-2250 with the following trigger phrase: “Hey Emili, is there an outage” and you should get the same information.  Very soon, both of these sources will read their data from the same place which is our backend issue tracking system so the data will always be propagated in real time so that no staff has to update either Emili’s messages or the website trigger, it will all be done programmatically and in a real-time automated fashion to get the latest in precise information.

Midweek Update

Schedule Updates

Closeup City

We do apologize we didn’t get a chance to get much notice out this morning.  We got up nice and early and went and checked our storage gear for the mounts we needed for Lampasas however we do not have any more on hand so we had to order more today and one of our staff will be driving to collect station tomorrow to fetch those items.  The City of Burnet issued our permits and things and completed their end of things so as a result we now have a shiny new power pedistal and power service to fire up the Burnet south Fiber!  finally!  This weekend will be connecting Burnet Main and Eagles Nest directly to the splice point as well as replacing the 7 creeks downlink master radio and adding some noise isolation mounts to the east facing access point while we’re up there.   This will drastically improve everything around there.  As the gateway effects ALL our customers this required our immediate attention.

Tomorrow ( 9 / 25 )  we will be working on the Kempner Main tower and finishing that off which will drastically help Chica Ranch.  For those of you close to their we will be working on you as well tomorrow.  Day after we will go back to Lampasas to finish those folks up.  We do apologize about the change up but we are trying to make sure everyone gets done what they need without putting them off for more then a day or 2 anymore.  We do apologize about Kingsland area folks will have to wait until Monday.  We are also ordering some gear that will help y’alls installs go fast and a few minor tower pieces to help block noise as well.  We are pushing hard over the rest of this month to make sure everyone that is strangling on issues gets fixed up.  At this time however, our systems report that 91% of our circuits are at or above package and 96% of them have some services, while only 4% are complete out.  This doesn’t mean that we’re leaving y’all behind or forgetting about you, but when items from government agencies pop up, Hyper Fusion MUST comply with them.  That’s how we maintain our licencees, permits and access to infrastructure that most providers just don’t have, at least not any small town WISP’s anyhow.

New Emili Feature

When you now make a new outage report with in 30 minutes ( depending on server load ) a new ticket will appear in our back end letting us know that a new issue is reported.

I’ve added in a live outage reporting feature now that everyone can use while talking to Emili.  Just say, “Emili, I’d like to report an outage.” and she will automatically create a new ticket in our system and fire out appropriate notifications.   This will help speed up repairs and letting us know that your having issues and so we don’t lose a single request.  In addition, during live customer support hours, if for what ever reason someone doesn’t answer customers now have the ability to leave a voicemail which pops up in our system as a new support ticket with the voicemail attached.  This will help ensure we don’t miss anyones request.

A new ticket similar to this one should appear in your fusion Portal after you make a new outage report.

Weekend Update for 9/21

Recap

Well everyone seems our new format is having MUCH better results then the past few weeks and has drastically beefed up the number of jobs we’re getting done in a week.  We do ask that if your still waiting for an appointment, do be patient with us as we finish getting caught up.  It’s definitely working.  We are still having some bugs in our phone system which should be resolved this weekend.  We do apologize for this, but as you can see, it’s yielding fantastic results.

Upcoming Weeks Schedule

Holding true to our new format, we are posting the areas in which we will be in and on what days during our weekend update.  This will help get questions answered for customers waiting for on-site service calls no matter the reasons.

Monday – Tuesday:  Lampasas
Just a handful of customers left to repair and 1 to install

Tuesday – Wedneday: Kempner / Chica Ranch
We will be finishing of the Kempner Main repeater as well as tuning the downlink connection to Chica Ranch which will return all speeds to normal off these two repeaters.

Wednesday – 7 Creeks / Naruna / Lake Victor
We will be doing some trenching out at Naruna to prepair to fiber connect it back to the new Burnet Gateway.  Additionally, the 7 creeks downlink radio on the Burnet Main side needs to be replaced, and this will resolve the slow speed issues out at 7 Creeks

Thrusday – Eagles Nest / Kingsland / Burnet ( Scattered Storms )
We will be mounting a brand new gigabit radio on Eagles Nest to repair to connect it to the new fiber.  We ill also be putting up a new beefy 1/2 gig downlink to Kingsland North in place of the starter link that’s there now.  This will MASSIVELY beef up the Kingsland area connections.

Friday – Open, for storm re-schedules

Inclement Weather Policy Update

As we are in the throws of hurricane season we decided to post our weather policy again and update it a bit for those folks who do not know.  As per OSHA regulations on most of this stuff, obviously due to the type of internet we deploy, Hyper Fusion has adopted several factors that we use to ensure the safety of our staff, which is paramount to keeping things cooking here at Hyper Fusion.  For the most part, we will only call a “weather day” if winds exceed 10mph, if there is heavy rain, or if lightning is flying off everywhere.   Especially those jobs with steep roofs, metal roofs, or utility pole climbing.  Although we can, we also doing like trenching fiber during bad weather either.  If you have an appointment that happens to be called due to weather, we will generally start calling or contacting the weekend before to get you rescheduled if we know the storm is going to be bad.  As we are in the throws of hurricane season as well, we have also been busy on weekends testing our field gear directly in these horrible conditions for Project DIRT.

Arrowhead Ranch, Cottonwood Mesa, and Blackbuck Ridge Repeater Sites

As some of you may know, some of the old staff we had to let go at the beginning of the summer are associated with the company that’s building out Arrowhead Ranch, Cottonwood Mesa, and Blackbuck Ridge repeater sites.  We are pleased to announce that we are working with their management to ensure that these repeaters stay right where they are so they are able to provide residents with fantastic internet.  Although we do not have all the particulars worked out, we believe their management is working with in the best interest of its residents.  After all, we’re pretty sure they want what’s best for their sub-division.  Don’t want what happened to the City of Lampasas to happen to the residents of these sub-divisions.  Although some of these folks where just not the right fit for Hyper Fusion, we believe they will continue to work with us in a professional manner to ensure that folks in these sub-divisions are not put of internet.  Even though we’ve heard LOTS of interesting stories from customers regarding all the staff that was let go back then, we are more then confident that they are now working with us to achieve the same goal of providing their residents with the best internet around.  We can’t imagine that there is any reason why they would do anything to prevent delivery of internet like the City of Lampasas has.

Cancellation of City Wide Internet in Lampasas

We are sad to announce that we have canceled our roll out of city wide wifi for Lampasas due to the City’s foul practices.  After meeting with the mayor and city manager of Lampasas and learning directly from them, that they used most of the research that Hyper Fusion did in order to hatch a plan to control the city internet themselves we will no longer be offering ANY services to residents of the City of Lampasas.  If you are already a customer, you will remain connected, however, any new residents that reside with in city limits will no longer be eligible for services.  Even though we have live ready to go fiber infrastructure right in town due to the City’s choices, we will be hauling all deployments with in town, and moving right past Lampasas North and West.  After learning also from several upstream providers directly telling us they would not provide us services if we brought them with in city limits of Lampasas, we thought we ought to follow the restrictions of our cherry contract with them and to ensure that everyone gets the internet that the big city gets.  And yes folks, there are VERY strong reasons some of the upstream wholesale fiber companies refuse to bring fiber into Lampasas.  They don’t want them upping peoples utility bills as they plan to.  Additionally, how much confidence can you have in their utility department when they have had all the problems they have had over the couple of years, and now these people think they know how to run a major enterprise class fiber network?  Yikes.

Burnet South Gateway Fiber Installation

We are pleased to announce the City of Burnet IS working with us in our deployment of a brand new fiber DMARC in Burnet that will offer fiber to the home and business in the City of Burnet.  Unlike the City of Lampasas, it’s quite clear that they understand the economic impact this type of service can have on local commerce and getting new residents into town.  Although these permits to do so are rather expensive considering, Hyper Fusion believes these costs to be more than reasonable and fair.  However, we will not be changing our fiber prices what so ever as a result, as we are not here to rob the customer.  Hyper Fusion would like to recognize the City of Burnet utility department for assisting Hyper Fusion in every way they can to ensure this fiber goes in.  We couldn’t be more thrilled to work with them.  They have some awesome folks over there in the utility department and their offices.  However, the same can’t be said for most electrical contractors.  Not sure why, but most seem to be difficult to work, but Hyper Fusion has found a solid electrical contractor we are working with on this splice point to ensure all codes and regulations are followed.  The City of Burnet required us to change a few things in our manner of deployment which we are happy to do.  This however, has caused a delay of a week or 2 on this fiber.  We kindly ask everyone to remain patient while we wait for the City of Burnet to do their part.  These sort of things when working with the city utility department take some time due to code.  The utility staff of Burnet do not make these regulations, but just like us, are required by law to follow them.  And Hyper Fusion certainly is never going to break the law, just to get some work done.

REGISTER FOR BURNET FUSION FIBER IMMEDIATELY BY CLICKING HERE AND CHECKING OUT THE FULL DETAILS.  THERE IS A LINK TO THE REGISTRATION FORM ON THAT PAGE.  PLEASE BEAR IN MIND, DUE TO THE HUGE EXPLOSION OF POPULARITY OF THIS PRODUCT, IT COULD TAKE UP TO A WEEK FOR A SALES ENGINEER TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU.

Onsite Call Request From Previous Week

If you emailed into our special on-site request box already, YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO SO AGAIN.  We’re aware of every request, and look thru this list every day and only delete them once they have been completed.  However, if you have not emailed in yet, and are still waiting on a service call, please email onsite-request@hyperfusiontech.com   with your request and we will get you in the rotation as soon as humanely possible.

Web Traffic Exploding

Hyper Fusion is just completely creaming the competition!  After working hard all year we finally passed Grande Communications, which is the #1 Internet Provider in central Texas!  But I guess that’s what happens when your faster than the other guys, and when your customers are a lot happier than them as well cause they are not getting over charged and blasted with all kinds of hidden fee’s!  We get more than twice the traffic RiseBroadband does, and they are in at least 10 states and multiple countries even!  A big shout out to all our customers for helping make this happen.  We couldn’t have done it without you.