Comments on: Rio Rancho pulls the plug

By: Bridge to Oblivion

Bridge to Oblivion — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:42:06 +0000

Azulstar was supposed to be gone Dec 31 2007 but the City gave them a reprieve to attempt to make their system work once and for all. Of course that didn’t happen, the Azulstar system got no better. Guess what it got worse. Azulstar spent more money attempting to make work and adding access points and upgrading equipment. As of Apr 1 2008 the City of Rio Rancho has decided to tell Azulstar to leave and remove all equipment from City facilities.

By: Azulstar User

Azulstar User — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:28:30 +0000

Has anyone heard if Azulstar has gone belly-up? Currently I am a user with a subscription that gets wide flux in signal strength. In the last three weeks, signal has been little to none, and I often receive messages that the server cannot be reached. Despite multiple attempts to reach a service rep, they fail to respond to email, and the helpline phone number is constantly busy- you cannot get through at any hour of the day.

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:40:46 +0000

“Nobody can do that thru DSL” — the sorry state of American broadband.

By: Roadrunner Wireless Services

Roadrunner Wireless Services — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:07:14 +0000

Updating comments RWSI “Roadrunner Wireless Services” has no affiliation in New Mexico with Time Warner. We are a local company doing wireless Internet only. Prices starting at $19.99 for 256k.
We can supply services as free or up to 10meg via wireless wifi. Nobody can do that thru DSL.

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:45:23 +0000

For those who don’t know, Road Runner is a Time Warner cable company. In most parts of the US, there is a DSL-cable duopoly that keeps the price of broadband very high, compared to many areas in Europe where there are a lot of service providers competing for customers’ business. The wireless service touted by Road Runner in New Mexico is expensive and slow: for $39.95 per month, you get 1.5 Mbps downstream and an upstream speed of 256 Kbps. It is not surprising that Rio Rancho tried, but failed, to get a wireless broadband provider to compete with Road Runner’s service. Rio Rancho should be commended for trying to bring some competition in the market for broadband service. It’s a shame that Azulstar could not deliver.

By: Roadrunner Wireless Services

Roadrunner Wireless Services — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:27:54 +0000

We stated time and time again that you cannot run two systems in the same market. It is proven true here. We sent letters to the City of Rio Rancho outlining this. The interference of two systems was apparent as part of the failure. Using indoor meru radios with amplifiers as an outdoor access point was a major design flaw. Rio Rancho attempted to create a monopoly for Azulstar by attempting to sue us into oblivion but that did not work, we have won every case in the courts of New Mexico. RWSI has put the peace pipe out again to build a real and quality network but to no avail. Rio Rancho is a rural city sparsely served by DSL our cable tv thus leaving large Internet connection problems. There are huge areas of the City that have NO phone lines our cable tv built to them. Thc City does not do the citizens justice by playing games of denial to the broadband Internet networks.