The Story of OodleNet

OodleNet arose out of the desire of mine for faster Internet access. I lived in an area where I should have been able to get high speed Internet access but there were no companies that offered it in my immediate area. All I could get was a slow dial-up connection. To be sure, in the early days of the Internet, there were only bulletin board services and websites with simple text pages. There weren't any multi-media style websites that are the norm for today and the Internet connection bandwidth requirements were very modest compared to today, but the connection was still the slowest part of the experience, as it still is today. I figured that my local telephone company would be providing the capability for me to get real Internet access at any time, but several years went by and I was still stuck with a slow dial-up connection. It seemed that there wasn't enough demand for Internet access in my neck of the woods for them to bother providing a faster service. More years went by and FINALLY cable services were becoming available that offered "HIGH SPEED" Internet access. No more waiting for those slow dial-up connections. But, alas, even the faster cable connections were still too slow for real Internet connectivity and they still were not available in my area.

Then came along DSL which offered much faster Internet connectivity through the telephone company’s system but I still couldn't get it in my area. Finally fed up, I came up with a plan to use my telephone line and my neighbor’s telephone line together to double my Internet connection speed. My first experiments were to run multiple dial-up modems in my computer and running wires from my neighbor’s houses to mine. This was not very popular with my neighbors.

When WiFi became available I used it to connect modems at my neighbor’s houses to mine, thereby getting rid of the wires. This was the beginning of the Oodlenet. 

I filed the first patent for the technology in 2001. After 7 long years and in 2008, I got my first patent on the technology granted. To my great surprise it was a Pioneering Patent, which means that it is so unique that there is nothing like it. Since then I’ve gotten a second major patent and have two more on file to protect this amazing technology. 

I thought that Internet companies would jump at the chance to adopt this technology in order to offer their customers blazingly fast Internet access speeds, but they have continually ignored my attempts to get them on board. It seems that the “status quo” is perfectly happy giving you the limited service that they say you can have and charging you a fortune for it. This is why we are approaching you directly. We want to grow a grass roots movement to convince Internet companies to give you the fastest Internet speeds possible. We have been waiting for the Internet to get up to our speed since the day it started, and now, with OodleNet, the wait is over.