Pictured left to right: Kevin Thompson, VP of Development, Lindsey Wilson College; Daryl Hammond, VP CFO, DUO Broadband; Callie Montgomery, Lindsey Wilson College DUO Broadband Scholarship recipient; Charity Ferguson, Director of Admissions, Lindsey Wilson College.

Callie Montgomery, a 2021 graduate of Russell County High School, is this year’s recipient of the Lindsey Wilson DUO Broadband Scholarship. She is attending Lindsey Wilson this fall and plans to major in Education.

The $3,000 tuition scholarship is given annually to a first-time, full-time Lindsey Wilson freshman from DUO Broadband’s service area, which includes parts of Adair, Cumberland and Russell counties.

“DUO Broadband is proud to continue this partnership with Lindsey Wilson College and understands how important it is to support our local youth’s pursuit of higher education,” says Eric West, Duo County Telecom’s Director of Marketing. DUO Broadband has supported the Lindsey Wilson scholarship program for more than twenty years.

Today more people than ever choose streaming video services over cable, satellite, or broadcast TV. According to Nielsen, streaming audiences have now surpassed the broadcast TV audience nationwide.

Streaming is very simple with the availability of smart TVs, and affordable devices like the Amazon Streaming Stick, Roku, and AppleTV. These devices give you access to thousands of apps, many of which are free. And you can subscribe to as many or few streaming services as you like without contracts.

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Smart home (or IoT) devices are becoming more popular and easier to use than ever before. If you’re using any of these devices in your home, or are thinking about adding one or more to your home, you should give some thought to how you’re connecting these devices to your WiFi network.

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How often do you have guests at your home ask for your WiFi password? Many of us think nothing of giving the password to our friends and family, or our kids’ friends. But you may not realize that you’re putting your own network security at risk. How? Guests could unknowingly download malware or connect to your network with already-infected devices, which could then infect everything else within the network. But that’s not the only reason to use a guest network.

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How to test your bandwidth

The YOUDUO app has many features to give you ease of control over your WiFi network and the devices that connect to it. Another useful feature is the Bandwidth Test, which allows you to measure the bandwidth connection coming into your router from DUO Broadband.

What exactly is bandwidth and why do I want to measure it?

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…and are they all the same?

A router is what allows the Internet cable connected to your home communicate with your Internet devices, like your computer, or security cameras, or smart appliances. 

Today, most routers are wireless, broadcasting a WiFi signal a short distance inside —or outside— your home or business. This allows phones, smart TVs, and other devices to access the Internet at very high speed.

Beyond that, a router provides a level of security to your home or business network.

Lower quality routers can be a bottleneck for really fast Internet, as a network can only be as good as its weakest link.

To assure the absolute best connectivity with your Internet, DUO Broadband carries the Calix GigaSpire BLAST router and matching extenders to send your signal even further.  

Want to add a GigaSpire BLAST router or sign up for DUO Broadband Internet? Just complete our service request form today!