Network Management Policy

The following East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative disclosures are in reference to the FCC Open Internet Rules.

Service Offerings

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative via the East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative brand directly offers broadband ISP services through Aureon (NETINS) and other wholesale Internet providers. Please visit the East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative website to check availability, speed options and pricing.

Performance

Aureon and others are the internet upstream providers for East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative. Aureon offers a speed test site to any user or customer. It can be accessed here: https://aureon.speedtestcustom.com/. These tests are heavily dependent on a customer’s home network configuration, modem/router, and computers, and therefore do not reflect the performance of the East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative network only.

Your Internet Service Speeds

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative provides residential and commercial customers with a variety of high speed Internet plans from which to choose, ranging from our initial tier (with download speeds up to 15 Mbps and upload speeds up to 15 Mbps) to our top tier (with download speeds up to 1 Gbps aka 1,000 Mbps and upload speeds to 1 Gbps aka 1,000 Mbps). East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative provisions its customers’ modems/routers and engineers its network to ensure that its customers can enjoy the speeds to which they subscribe. However, East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative does not guarantee that a customer will actually achieve those speeds at all times. Without purchasing an expensive, dedicated Internet connection, no Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) can guarantee a particular speed at all times to a customer. East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative advertises its speeds as “up to” a specific level based on the tier of service to which a customer subscribes.

The “actual” speed that a customer will experience while using the Internet depends upon a variety of conditions, many of which are beyond the control of an ISP such as East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative. These conditions include:

1. Performance of a customer’s computer, including its age, processing capability, its operating system, the number of applications running simultaneously, and the presence of any adware and viruses.

2. Type of connection between a customer’s computer and modem. For example, wireless Wi-Fi connections may be slower than a direct wired connection into a router or modem. Wireless connections also may be subject to greater fluctuations, interference and congestion. East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative does not recommend wireless modem/router connections for use with its higher speed tiers as many wireless connections do not perform at the speeds delivered by these tiers.

3. The distance packets travel (round trip time of packets) between a customer’s computer and its final destination on the Internet, including the number and quality of the networks of various operators in the transmission path can vary significantly. The Internet is a “network of networks.” A customer’s connection may traverse the networks of multiple providers before reaching its destination, and the limitations of those networks will most likely affect the overall speed of that Internet connection.

4. Congestion or high usage levels at the website or destination. If a large number of visitors are accessing a site or particular destination at the same time, your connection will be affected if the site or destination does not have sufficient capacity to serve all of the visitors efficiently.

5. Gating of speeds or access by the website or destination. In order to control traffic or performance, many websites limit the speeds at which a visitor can download from their site. Those limitations will carry through to a customer’s connection.

6. The performance of the modem or router that you have installed. Modem and router performance may degrade over time, and certain modems and routers are not capable of handling higher speeds.

This is the reason that East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative, like all other ISPs, advertises speeds as “up to” a particular level, and does not guarantee them.

There are other speed tests that measure Internet performance. We have provided links to a couple of these sites below for your reference. Please note, however, that all speed tests have biases and flaws. Each of these tests measures limited aspects of an ISP’s speed and therefore must be seen as a guide rather than definitive measurements of performance.

http://www.speedtest.net

https://aureon.speedtestcustom.com/  

Latency

Latency is another measurement of Internet performance. Latency is the time delay in transmitting or receiving packets on a network. Latency is primarily a function of the distance between two points of transmission, but also can be affected by the quality of the network or networks used in transmission. Latency is typically measured in milliseconds, and generally has no significant impact on typical everyday Internet usage. As latency varies based on any number of factors, most importantly the distance between a customer’s computer and the ultimate Internet destination (as well as the number and variety of networks your packets cross), it is not possible to provide customers with a single figure that will define latency as part of a user experience.

Congestion Management

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative does not implement any congestion management techniques. East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative operates our network to accommodate the necessary traffic requirements. To that end, we have two separate and distinct connections on a self-healing fiber ring to the Internet cloud in an attempt to avoid congestion and service interruptions. In the event of congestion or service interruption, all traffic is classified as best effort.

Our congestion management approach will change over time, as we continue to study and enhance our practices and as new technologies emerge. In the meantime, we will continue to invest in our network in accordance with our normal course of business operations, which includes installing technology that will increase the speed and capacity of our services.

Content, Applications, Service and Device Providers

As a full service Internet Service Provider, East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative delivers a variety of Internet-based applications. These include:

  • Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
  • Email
  • Web Hosting

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative does not discriminate any customer traffic. East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative utilizes the network management techniques that are equal and standard across all user applications. We do not modify our network to make our directly served applications perform better than applications a user would access over the general Internet. For example, East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative does not manipulate our network to perform better for customers accessing East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative email servers versus East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative customers accessing Google’s gmail.

The network management practices employed by East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative do not differ between our directly offered applications to those general applications offered over the Internet.

Security Measures

In the event of Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, spoofing or other malicious traffic, East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative will implement inbound and outbound filtering on specific hosts. These actions will be performed to ensure reliability and availability of the East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative Network. These actions will not be utilized for normal Internet applications and traffic.

NOTE: 3rd party providers may perform this action on behalf of East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative on equipment that is managed by these same 3rd parties.

Privacy Policy

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative has provided this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following policy discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative.

Information

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative is the sole owner of the information collected on its website.

Viewer Privacy

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative does not collect personal information such as names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, or telephone numbers. Since we do not collect any personal information on this Web site, we do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes.

IP Addresses

As noted above, we do not collect any personal information on this website. We do, however, collect and store information about your Internet connection when you visit our website to read or download information, such as reports, news, etc. We use this information to track website use, measure site traffic, and improve site navigation and information. We collect information that identifies:

The name of the domain you access the Internet with.

The type of web browsing software you use to view our site.

The date and time of your access.

The platform you are using (i.e. Windows, Macintosh or Unix).

This information is never sold, given or disclosed to third parties. This information is used internally to administer our website, provide better services to the public, and provide aggregate traffic statistics to East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative staff. No personal information is collected.

Hyperlinks

Additionally, this site contains links to other sites. East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites unless operated directly by East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative. We encourage you to note when you leave our website and read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information.

Acceptance and Jurisdiction

By using this service, you agree that you have read, understand and will abide, and be bound, by the terms of this Website Privacy and Policies (“Terms”). If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative website. These Terms shall be governed in all respects in accordance with the laws of the State of Iowa without regard to the conflict or choice of law rules thereof. Courts sitting in the State of Iowa, federal and state, shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising hereunder.

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative reserves the right to change, modify or update this statement at any time without notice.

Contacting East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative, you may contact us at the following:

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative

214 Third Street N.

P.O. Box 100

Winthrop, Iowa 50682

Phone: 319–935–3011

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East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative | 319-935-3011 or 866-327-2748 | P.O. Box 100, 214 Third Street North, Winthrop, IA 50682-0100 | help@eastbuchanan.com

East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative
319-935-3011 or 866-327-2748
P.O. Box 100, 214 Third Street North, Winthrop, IA 50682-0100
help@eastbuchanan.com

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