What Sets Us Apart
All About Us
The whole idea of starting a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) began with a series of events. The first of which was using networking antennas to connect a farm to the residents' homes a mile or so down the road. The second of which was when Luke Grocholl was searching for faster, more reliable internet for his home. He found a provider that could give him 1 Gbps for a price anyone could afford. This didn't work out as planned. The cost ended up being twenty times more than he had been told (salesmen and their ways, I tell you!). Although this fiber provider didn't work out, the idea behind the fast and reliable internet and the antennas merged into the idea that we could solve the long standing problem in the community of providing fast, reliable and affordable internet. So Luke Grocholl and Wyatt Borchardt formed a partnership to start Silo Communications LLC, a local internet provider dedicated to providing rural northern Illinois with fast, reliable and affordable connectivity to the World Wide Web.
Our Past
Fed up with slow internet, our co-owners, Luke Grocholl and Wyatt Borchardt, founded silo communication with a vision to bring highspeed, affordable, and reliable internet services to their rural communities!
In early 2020, we began building fixed wireless access points on local silos, grain legs, and towers. By April, only weeks after the global COVID-19 pandemic broke out, we successfully connected our first broadband customers!
Summer 2021 saw our first major expansion when we purchased a fleet of construction equipment to begin fiber-optic infrastructure in rural Winnebago County. We hired our first part-time employees and got to work.
While working to build our network, we have also focused our resources at becoming a trusted electrical and utility construction contractor. Working with both commercial and agricultural customers, we provided new construction as well as on-going service of electrical and telecommunications systems.
Currently
We currently provide high-speed internet access to residents and businesses across five townships within Winnebago County. Our newest project - expanding to the Village of Pecatonica!
Our construction services division has grown to now make up a majority off our annual sales. We have completed large-scale fiber to premises projects in three states for major telecommunications providers including, AT&T, Frontier Communications, and CenturyLink. Additionally, we hold contracts providing ongoing maintenance to several major telecommunication utilities including, directional drilling; utility pole replacement; span relocates, replacements, diagnostics, and splicing for both legacy copper and fiber networks.
We service and sell Eaton/Cutler-Hammer commercial electrical gear and Generac generators.
Our team responds 24/7 to our customers PERSONALLY to provide electrical services including load center installation and replacement, motor repair, overhead secondary faults, and underground installation.