06/05/2026
Network Upgrade Update!
Folks in West Richland/Benton City may have noticed their latency dropped on their connections earlier this week.
After nearly 15 months we have managed to get a fiber circuit fired up on Flat-Top to feed this portion of the network. We have been running on a Spectrum circuit that was in place already and multiple times we've had to reach out to them to address high latency and circuit drops.
This swap removes 2 unnecessary hops from within our network to the open world and will ultimately be a much better connection for everyone moving forward. With that being said, the integration of Benton REA (PowerNet) into Advanced Internet's network is fully complete, this was the last link that we had to get tied up to start running 100% on our network.
We also have built a fully redundant backup system in case the fiber circuit fails in West Richland. The network will self-heal and push everyones traffic to Prosser resulting in SECONDS of downtime as opposed to whatever timeline the fix would be for an outage with Spectrum or the new provider!
We appreciate everyone that continues to trust our services and look forward to continuing to provide for you folks!