Hi. We’re Walrus.
An independent rural ISP, about 20 people, building real fiber to farms, small towns, and the stretches of road the carriers skipped. We own our network, we answer the phone, and we come install it ourselves.
Or check if you’re in our area. Takes a minute.
We’ve been doing it since 2014. We own our network end to end. We answer our phone — usually on the first ring. We don’t hide fees, we don’t bundle things you didn’t ask for, and we don’t make you sign a contract.
That’s about it. If you’re coming from one of the big carriers, this will feel different. We think that’s the point.
Pick a speed. That's it. No tiers, no upsell, no forced bundles. Install is free. Router is included. Every plan is symmetrical, which means upload is as fast as download.
symmetrical
Enough fiber for email, streaming, and a few smart plugs.
symmetrical
The plan most of our neighbors pick. A full gig, symmetrical.
A note from Walrus
We started Walrus in 2014 because a friend’s farm couldn’t get internet faster than 3 Mbps. The carriers kept saying “next year,” and next year kept not showing up. So we ran fiber out to his barn. Then his neighbor asked. Then her neighbor.
Ten years later we’re still doing it. We’re bigger than we were — there’s about twenty of us now, spread across a few states — but we’re not big. We build fiber ourselves, we splice it ourselves, and when something goes wrong at 9pm on a Tuesday, the person who answers the phone knows your name.
We’re not trying to grow forever. We’re not trying to be the cheapest. We’re trying to be the ISP our neighbors can actually count on. If that’s what you’re looking for, we’d like to meet you.
— The Walrus team
Install crew, support line, network engineers. All of us.
By the numbers
Real numbers from our own monitoring. Not marketing. If the number is less than we want, we say so.
We build network by region, not by ZIP blitz. Here’s an honest look at where our fiber currently runs and where we’re headed.
Northeast
Upstate NY, rural VT, NH, ME
Mid-Atlantic
Rural PA, WV, VA highlands
Southeast
NC & TN mountain counties
Midwest
Rural IA, WI, MN farm country
Plains
KS, NE, eastern CO
Mountain West
ID, MT, WY, rural UT
Pacific Northwest
Rural OR & WA
Southwest
Rural NM & AZ
Tell us where you need fiber. If enough of y’all ask from one place, we try to get there next.
Here’s what our network is actually made of, where it peers, and how it holds up. We don’t think any of this should be a secret.
The network isn’t the whole job. A rural ISP also needs to show up.
We keep 40+ rural school districts and their libraries connected at gigabit speeds, often at cost. Kids shouldn't lose homework because the DSL dropped again.
We work directly with ag co-ops to get farm-to-market fiber in: milking parlors, combine telemetry, greenhouse sensors. The farm runs on internet now.
Our support line is answered by a person who's worked on your county's network. Usually on the first ring. No phone trees, no offshore scripts.
In 2014 we ran our first fiber line to a farmhouse the big carriers wouldn’t touch. A hundred meters of buried single-mode from a pole down a dirt road. It worked.
We haven’t stopped since. Today we serve thousands of rural homes, small businesses, farms, schools, and libraries — all with fiber we own end to end.
We’re still small. We plan to stay that way. Small is how you stay close to the network and close to the people using it.
Still reading?
Tell us your address. We’ll check it against our network and get back to you by the next business day — same-day usually. No hard sell.