Community Bulletin
Explore this page for news, updates, and educational articles to ensure you’re getting the most out of your Northern Lights Fiber internet connection.
Is Starlink Right for Rural Communities?
Xpay.com, Tesla Inc., and SpaceX are just a few of Musk’s brainchildren, and the latter was founded in 2002 with the mind-boggling goal to colonize space. No matter how you may feel about him, you’ve certainly got to hand it to Musk: when it comes to ideas, the sky truly is the limit! This brings us to the matter at hand: In 2019, SpaceX announced its latest projects, one of which was Starlink. But what exactly is Starlink? And is it really everything it’s cracked up to be? What Is Starlink?...
Best Things to Do After Getting Fiber Internet
You've Made the Change To Fiber Internet So you've made the right choice, switched to Northern Lights Fiber's high-speed fiber internet, and already experiencing faster downloads and improved reliability while you're online. You may be wondering about some of the best ways to enjoy your new fiber internet connection. Well, there are several things you can do to make the most of Northern Lights Fiber's fiber service and improve life in your home. Faster, more reliable internet opens doors to...
The Summer Slowdown: 4 Tip to Prepare Your Home for Summer Internet
4 Tip to Help Your Home with Summer Internet
A Thank You To Our New Community Manager
Our Community Ambassadors Just over a year ago, we began a program to introduce a more local presence to our communities by hiring local ambassadors who could represent the company. These ambassadors needed to be a friendly face around town, going door to door and acting as our boots on the ground. Most of all, they needed to have a passion for helping customers solve their problems and serving their community. This effort was a direct result of our desire to ensure that our presence in each...
Why We Have Scheduled Outages
At Northern Lights Fiber our team of technicians, installers, and customer support professionals take pride in delivering the state of the art high-speed fiber internet you’ve come to expect. From responding to weather-related outages, to upgrading our cutting-edge systems, keeping you connected to the global economy and communications network is a 24/7 job—and we love being a part of it! But you may have wondered why we occasionally schedules outages for our network. After all, isn’t the...
Five Websites Every Work-From-Home Employee Should Check Out
If you work from home, check out these sites to make the most of your remote work!
Construction Updates: Spring Plans
What to expect: We have been hard at work to ensure everyone knows that we are bringing your community fiber optic internet! More importantly, we are bringing speeds up to 10,000 Mbps. This means that you will have an opportunity to get internet that is 1000x faster than anything seen in town before! To prepare your community for the future, new fiber-optic infrastructure is deeply important. To ensure this massive upgrade lasts decades, we will burry this infrastructure! Unfortunately,...
How Fiber Broadband Serves Rural Canada
Your neighbors at Northern Lights Fiber understand that rural communities are a quintessential part of the Canadian experience. And millions of Canadians know that the friendly people and charms of country life make rural areas ideal places to raise a family. Indeed, over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of people have relocated from large cities to the cleaner air and amiable country lifestyle rural Canada offers. But compared to urban and suburban portions of the country, rural...
Why We Use Temporary Drops for Winter Installations
Temporary Drops for Winter Installations We know the wait for fiber internet installation can be tough. After all, you are on the verge of having fast, reliable broadband fiber internet from Northern Lights Fiber, and all the best streaming entertainment the web has to offer. Winter adds to the technical challenges of fiber installation. Frozen grounds, shorter days with less sunlight, excessive moisture from melting snow and heavy rains drenching the soil—all of these issues and more can...
New Seniors Discount Package
Our New Seniors Plan Recently we've taken some extra time to consider how we can foster better connections in your community. Covid has caused so much change and has asked for even more sacrifice, especially for seniors living in remote communities. To help Grande Cache's seniors reconnect with their friends, family and their community we decided to completely redesign our Seniors discount program. This new program makes high speed internet more affordable, more accessible and even easier for...