Dennis Hunt of Appomattox, Va., is a do-it-yourself kind of guy who apparently doesn’t like to wait.
Case in point: When he was told it would be a while before his rural Virginia home would get high-speed Internet service, he created his own network.
He built a 190-foot-tall transmission tower on a hill near his home and figured out a way to control it remotely. The 60-year-old resident even installed solar panels for electricity and has a bunch of car batteries standing by for backup power.
That was four years ago.
The company now has 100 customers and a fancy name: GNS Networks.
