The Silverton School is now connected to fiber-optic high-speed Internet after years of trying to get it. The school tested the connection Friday, and it will be ready to go when school resumes after the winter break.
Silverton may be isolated geographically, but as of Friday, its school is connected to the world.
The town has been the only county seat in the state without high-speed Internet, but after years of fits and starts, Silverton School was finally able to test its fiber-optic high-speed connection before the winter break. The school reported a speedy connection of 96 megabits per second in its test run.
The road to the connection has been rocky, involving Eagle-Net, CenturyLink and Brainstorm Internet and its parent company, Forethought Inc., which recently purchased Vidion, a cable company that serves Silverton.
Students had been unable to stream educational videos because of its slow connection.
