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.
