Mike came by today and gave me very valuable instructions on how to significantly improve my wi-fi networks, and saving me money. He is obviously a very experienced telecom and networking professional. Now I know who I can go to for future needs. Thanks, Mike. read more

I've been using Ridge Wireless for many years and am consistently satisfied with speed and reliability. Living in a rural area where cable is not an option is frustrating, but Mike has helped us with internet service that has exceeded every other company we tried over our 25+ years in this location. When service goes down he is very quick to respond. A five star rating is a no brainer here. read more

We live in the Los Gatos Mountains and used to have extremely spotty internet. Mike from Ridge Wireless came out and set up antennas on our houses and barn as well as setting up mesh routers. Internet is now fast and reliable and is available everywhere on our property. He is a pleasure to work with and is always available if we have questions or issues. We highly recommend Mike and Ridge Wireless. read more

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We switched to Ridge Wireless in 2023 after some bad experience with the previous provider and our experience has been outstanding. Mike has been very easy to work with, he is very responsive and always there if we run into any problem. We are living in the Santa Cruz mountains and for us it is really important to have internet service we can count on and Ridge Wireless is delivering on all counts. Highly recommended! read more

Excellent!!! Excellent speed, excellent service* and excellent value. We have had Comcast, Verizon, Infinity, Dish and many other providers for internet & cable, none come close to the quality, service and value of Ridge Wireless. No teaser rates or "funny" business, just excellent service. We have been happy Ridge customers for years and have never had any issues with service*, but did call (1) time to have the modem relocated. We immediately reached a live body and the modem / router was relocated on the same day. Why would anyone pay more for less, especially when you can support a small, local, hard-working business with integrity vs. the corporate behemoths who frequently change terms & conditions. read more

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When I found out my new home in Los Gatos could not get broadband, I was pretty concerned. Ridge Wireless came through with a professional install experience and honestly MUCH better performance than I expected! My wife and I both did videoconferences today at the same time - zero issues with quality and in fact one of my coworkers commented that "I must have sorted out my internet issue because the picture quality is great!" I've also streamed 4K video to the TV and it looks terrific. I highly recommend them if you're in a spot that traditional broadband won't reach. read more

Ridge Wireless an ISP you actually feel really good about supporting/paying. Great internet connection and support! Have been a customer for 2.5 years or so. Great communication and support from Ridge Wireless. Installation went great, detail orientated, conscious about not making more holes than necessary. I love the business model of paying for what the minimum speed you need, then that is your guaranteed speed. You can always expect at least that speed, almost always you get more. I don't think we have ever even truly had an outage. One day the speed was slow and I was getting dropped packets, emailed support and got a response quickly back. Our radio or modem had an uptime of like a year, A quick power cycle and everything was back to normal. I doubt I ever had an ISP where I could have had a uptime of over a year on their equipment! read more

We have been a long time customer with Ridge and the Service and Response times to questions and requests have been phenomenal since day 1. We initially tried other options before learning of Ridge and found the monthly charges often far exceeded the estimated pricing (based on usage) and that the sales teams would make promises not supported by the company. With Ridge, there have been no surprise charges and all commitments made during the sales process have been kept by the support team. In short, we highly recommend Ridge. read more

I almost gave up getting internet at my place, but I was recommended Ridge Wireless by a neighbor and decided to send them an email asking about their service. Within a week or so, I got my questions answered, place inspected, and internet installed. The team at Ridge Wireless has been very helpful and very prompt, and the service is very good. I'm definitely recommending them to friends and family who are struggling to find a quality ISP. read more

I have been a customer with this company for about 5 years. And for the last year the internet speeds have been so terrible and the response I got from the CEO Mike was "must be your router" after bypassing the router I was regularly receiving speeds of 1mbps and less ever night. I told mike about this and he made sure before anything else that if his tech finds no problems with my speeds then I have to pay $250. I mean I pay $179 a month for this internet and I needed the internet speed to be better so I said okay. Once the tech came out after 3 weeks he plugged his computer into the dish and said all is good. Charged me 250 and Mike said if your going to complain I'll cancel your internet which he did after I said but it's still slow even in bypass... so great service mike and I can't wait to see how your company goes Also wish I could give 0 stars read more

Excellent service from Mike and his team. We tried a variety options but then found Ridge Wireless. We've been loyal customers for about 10 years. Speeds are faster than our needs. Priced very competitively. Much more reliable than other services. Highly recommend. read more

We contact Ridge Wireless for internet service for our house up at Saratoga mountain. Mike went to the house twice and made changes to their antenna hardware to ensure that we get strong signals. Installation is completed, great signal. Thumbs up! We will update its service after a while. Thanks, Mike! read more

Mr Scott was very cordial and professional when he helped me install my wireless router and modem. I highly recommend his service and at a great price. Thanks!! read more

Hands down the best! Mike was so helpful through out the entire process and helped me get service where no other company could. 5 stars all around. Thanks Mike! read more

Excellent, Excellent! Excellent! We have used Ridge Wireless since they first start, for all these years we get excellent service and care with very modest cost. Mike, the owner and Eric, their tech support are not only very very knowledgeable also their support are superb. They will come to help immediately whenever you experience trouble and luckily doesn't happen very often. We recommend many of our neighbors to use their service and they all felt very very satisfied. We highly recommend Ridge Wireless to anyone who need internet service. read more

AMAZING! Back in the urban area where I live, I've been so used to getting responses from the xfinity giving me excuses and never resolving anything. What a breath of fresh air Mike Lyon and his company has provided us with at my parent's house!! They provide EXCELLENT customer service! Twice already I have been shocked at how quickly things get resolved and even personally owned and handled by Mike! And the internet service provided here.... SIMPLY AMAZING! I was at a point where I was becoming hopeless and thinking it might just have been a fact that living in the mountains comes with slow DSL speeds and no other options! Mike came with his huge truck and proved that myth wrong!! Thanks so much Mike and everyone at Ridge wireless!! read more

Coyote Grange needed an internet solution. When we first searched, unfortunately, we didn't find any local WISPs. We looked around and saw lots of Hughes net on the neighbors' roofs, so we tried that. What a nightmare. Slow, unreliable, useless. We also tried Verizon Wireless, but quickly discovered that their caps on unlimited aren't as workable as we expected in our situation. When I complained about our Hughes experience on Facebook, I learned that Ridge could service our location and signed up quickly thereafter. In comparison with Hughes who sent an installer with an attitude problem unwilling to mount the antenna where we wanted it, Ridge sent out a very friendly installer who went above and beyond. Where Hughes had low bandwidth, high latency, and terrible customer service, Ridge has been a dream. Extremely responsive and very effective customer service that knows exactly what I need and provides a prompt correct answer every time. The focus at Hughes was locking me in and collecting money. The focus at Ridge has been making sure that we are getting the service we need and helping us out. I wish I had found Ridge first. It's been a fantastic customer experience from beginning to end. read more

In today's world fast, reliable internet service is a must, for work, for play, for school. Living in the Santa Cruz Mountains, that is often a serious challenge. When we reached out to Mike and team to help get us connected, they were able to find a solution to get us access (even if it does require hundreds of feet of cable and boosters to get the dish to a place it can get signal) and have been exceptionally responsive if we ever have issues. A huge thanks to Mike and Ridge team who have made life in the Mountains possible over Covid. Thanks! read more

Mike and his installers are the cream of the crop for mountain internet service. I'm getting 10 times the speed I'm paying for opposed to 1/4 the speed I was paying for with Surfnet. Ridge's customer service is unsurpassed, Mike recommended upgraded routers for my house, office, and studio. All work great, an upgrade I was unaware of being possible. Mike and his team are our hero's up here on Mount Thayer, I'd give them ten stars if I could. If you want superior customer service and awesome internet speed in the mountains you can't go wrong with Mike and his team. Mike Candeaux read more

We moved to the county in 2001 with no serious options for internet services. Finally, Ridge Wireless became an option that allowed us to actually stream movies and work from home effectively. Bye Overpriced cable services read more

We found Ridge Wireless after putting up several years with DIRECTV. Mike Lyon really owns and represents his services and products. Very reliable service for the rural parts of Hollister. He makes an effort to resolve any problem within a few hours. Staff is friendly, knowledgeable and efficient. Super happy with this company! Ridge Wireless is the Best!!!!!!!! read more

We needed reliable WiFi at home and Ridge Wireless did a totally fantastic job getting our new WiFi set up and working seamlessly! We were thrilled with the service and yes, now we have fast WiFi! I would highly recommend Ridge Wireless to anyone who needs top quality service and internet connectivity. 5 stars, all the way. Ridge Wireless is terrific! Suzanne & Bill read more

I've been using Ridge wireless for almost 2 years now and this has been phenomenal service. Customer service response is always swift. Keep up the good work and thank you Mike! --Anton read more

We live in the country, and found it very difficult to get good Internet. We were previously with another company for more than two years, and they provided terrible Internet service but most of all terrible customer service. I want to take time to thank Mike and his amazing team for providing us with amazing service. We have been going on a year now with them. They have went overboard in providing great customer service, even to the point of having to replace equipment on their dime to make sure we had good Internet. We are most grateful for their team. I highly recommend Ridge Wireless to anybody who needs great internet service, but most of all they listen to you and your needs, and put you first. read more

Reasonable prices and the same for all. Fast response, no contracts, my speeds are fast!

We live in the Los Gatos mountains and have enjoyed great service from Ridge for many years. If you live in an area without service from the normal huge companies, give Ridge a call. As others have mentioned, after the CZU fires we had to use a competitor for several months while Ridge rebuilt a tower that had burned down. Ridge is so much better, especially for customer service. You get quick, personal service - often from the owner. Also, when you look at pricing keep in mind that their speeds are the MINIMUM speeds you will get. We usually get at least 5x faster speeds than our minimum guarantee. Most other companies specify their MAXIMUM speed and have no guaranteed minimum speed. I highly recommend this company. read more

We had a great experience with Ridge wireless. Sales was excellent. All of our questions were always answered promptly and the are very patient during the entire process. A first class company that employees first class people. I would recommend anyone interested in internet service to visit Ridge Wireless. read more

The final chapter in the long journey to have internet installed up at my house has closed--it was a great ending. After coming up to the house on more than one occasion to try and establish line of sight to his base station, Mike finally found what ended up being this tiny area between two redwoods that wasn't more than 3' wide. I have no idea how he made that spot work, but I don't call him Batman for no reason. Eric, Scott, and the winged-wonder showed up to install last week, and they had their work cut out for them: They had to wire my house in two spots (across the two-story roof line), as well as a separate unit down the hill, to an antennae that sat more than 300' away. Not only were they able to wire up and install the entire property in one day, they did it to my landlord's exacting specifications; Esthetics are paramount to her. Mike's team listened patiently, and never once got rattled at the long list of "must haves." By the time they left, all the wires were hidden (across the entire 1/2 acre of property), and the equipment blended into the structure of the house and the surrounding woods, like she wanted. The bottom line is that this process was totally worth the wait. I live in a very wooded area on top of a ridge in Scotts Valley, and had Mike not been persistent, I would be relegated to using a hotspot as my permanent internet source. I have never updated a review like this, but quite frankly, sharing my thoughts about bad Mediterranean food pales in comparison to finding good internet. Why? Because I work in the Silicon Valley and REQUIRE GREAT INTERNET SERVICE. I telecommute; I work after hours; and I need a reliable connection to a VPN (and Netflix!). If you're reading this, you get it. If you get it, call Mike. He'll make it happen. Mike, buddy? You did it. Thank you. If you ever need a reference, let me know. Michele Puente 408-642-8792 read more

I recently came from living off grid at the tip of Baja Mexico, about an hour east of Cabo, on the east cape. It's all solar and batteries, but you can get internet with a dish on your roof, pointed to a nearby mountain top. How cool is that? I'm out in the dessert, watching Netflix and HBO NOW with nary a timeout for buffering. I came back here to the Bay Area and was soon presented an opportunity to look over a property on the east hills of San Jose. It's off grid, but because I have experience now, I took up the challenge and one of the first things I did was research radio internet providers...something that just a year ago I was completely unaware of. Found Ridge Wireless and a few others, but because of the stellar Yelp reviews, I went with them. They did a site survey the next day, and while I hope they are eventually able to do the install sooner than the frustrating amount of time I had to wait, it was worth the wait. This is the best Internet service I've ever had, and that includes fiber-optic in a downtown San Jose loft some years back. Comcast/Xfinity? Frauds, at least in an urban environment. I have a vacation home up in Arnold, CA, and the Comcast screams up there and is wholly reliable. Less density. So, four days now on Ridge with just KICK-ASS INTERNET. Such a joy. I'm on the 2.5 mbps synchronous plan for $50 per month and literally have no idea how I could be happier. Job well done, guys and gals. read more

Mike Lyon and his Ridge Wireless company are world-class providers of Internet Service that has high-performance, amazing uptime, round-the-clock support for all those hard to reach places in the Bay Area. Mike is knowledgeable, deploys the the best and most reliable technologies, (he is well connected with the latest Silicon Valley WIFI providers), and is deadly focused on a cost effective, kick-ass service. His team is available 24x7 and by the way - Mike treats my internet service like it it was service for his own home! I live in the East San Jose Hills - and have 7 other providers/solutions over the past 30 years, and Ridge has been my "go-to" provider for almost 4 years. Mike has me pointed to one of his many access points/towers that provide great coverage, and provides me with symmetric performance that is 3X higher than what I was previously able to achieve (25-30Mbit). Ping times are amazing (Speed of light helps - I can see his access point from my house - 6-8msec). Things are quite tricky in remote hillside locations. This past month I had a performance issue, contacted Ridge and Mike responded to me (within 15 minutes at 11PM!). He figured out the issue, made some changes to my configuration (first remotely) and then decided he would come onsite to check out things. Today I have service that outperforms what he initially installed for me several years ago - all at the same great price. Mike let me know within 15 minutes when he would arrive, performed his magic in a short time, was very patient with all of my technical questions - and when he left, I had more reliable and a higher performance service. When was the last time that happened? I have recommended his service to all of my friends who live in the hills and small businesses and two non-profits (great backup/DR-alternate path capabilities), and everyone is quite pleased! read more

We live in the Los Gatos Mountains and had been using Verizon -- and before that Surfnet -- we recently switched to Ridge Wireless and couldn't be happier. Our speed has increased 10 times! Mike Lyon is very easy to work with and very responsive. We would highly recommend the service and Mike. read more

Amazing. The team at Ridge were fast and efficient with the install as well as dealing with me talking their ear off! Service is fast and stable. Thank you! This changes things about Mountain living for us. read more

Recently moved to new home in Day Valley on border of Aptos and Corralitos. After reading reviews hon yelp and doing my research, I decided to try ridge wireless first. Mike the owner showed up to assess the possibility of internet service. He was honest and helpful. In my experience, with any company or organization, it all starts at the top. Mike being a down to earth person who sincerely wanted to help us, even if it meant pointing us in a different direction, it speaks volumes about their company. Ridge wireless is the best place to start if your considering getting internet service in the Santa Cruz mountains read more

Ridge is a huge step up from any other internet option we've tried in our rural area, but beyond the signal improvement these guys are great because they have been amazingly responsive. They're so quick to respond and truly want to make sure your service is good and reliable. They've helped me do some troubleshooting and improvements lately that make my work from home experience much better. Relying on my signal for work adds a new dimension to my focus on speed, and that level of stress has really been reduced by Mike and the guys at Ridge taking care of us. read more

Extremely grateful for Ridge Wireless!! We recently moved to a rural neighborhood where DSL type internet is not available. Being unfamiliar with any other type of internet we originally signed up with a different provider (satellite) and it was AWFUL!!!! We had to cancel remote classes, couldn't stream, etc etc (check my reviews if you want to know who the other provider was). After asking around for better options we switched to Ridge wireless (terrestial-based wireless internet). We now have RELIABLE, fast internet service. It is a lifesaver!!! Ridge wireless is not only reliable but also has excellent customer service and great value for the service. They truly care about their customers and the service they provide, they are professional and very responsive. Mike is awesome and the technician that installed our service was EXTREMELY helpful and went the extra mile to ensure everything was up to par. If you are in need of internet service and live in their service area - Save yourself stress, time and money by signing up with Ridge Wireless! read more

We lost our internet recently when one of the fires destroyed the Ridge Wireless tower we used. We had to go to one of the competitors (same technology) in order to have internet as we are working and schooling from home. We now have Ridge Wireless internet restored and have two networks in the house - one for the adults (work) and one for the kids (school). Ridge Wireless has much better performance for the same price and I can't say enough about the excellent customer service. I highly recommend Ridge Wireless! read more

Ridge Wireless continues to be great. Another WISP put up some interfering infrastructure at one of the mountain tops and Mike was on top of coming up with a way to get back high performance. read more

Excellent reliability and speed. Prompt response to questions. Significantly better service than previous provider. Personable owner too.

This company is awesome! They came out to make sure I could get internet service to my location, within a couple of days we had fast internet service! Very professional, great customer service! Couldn't be happier. read more

I was a littler nervous about moving up to the hills and relying fixed wireless for my work which is video calls all day everyday. However, Ridge Wireless has been exceptional, the connection has low latency, low jitter and ample throughput for two concurrent video calls all day. The customer service has also been excellent. read more