Did You Know?

The DC Access website includes a WiFi support page with tips on how to reboot your router and check your connections.

These two simple steps fix most WiFi woes - if you are still having trouble, give us a call, or email support@dcaccess.net

Don't miss

A Literary Feast
- a unique local fundraiser that has become a Hill tradition.

What is it?

The feast is series of dinner parties held at homes across Capitol Hill all on one evening. Each dinner features food and fun related to a specific book.

Who benefits?

Proceeds support the Capitol Hill Community Foundation's Grants to Neighborhood Schools. In 2013, grants totaling more than $100,000 were given to fund special projects and programs for our school children. Martha is proud to serve on the board of CHCF and is co-chair of this year's Literary Feast.

When is it?

6:30pm

October 25

Dessert at 8:45pm at the Hill Center

To learn more and buy tickets, visit ALiteraryFeast.org

Who's Online?

According to the Pew Research Internet Project:

87%

of U.S. adults use the Internet

(compared to 14% with access in 1995)

71%

use the Internet a typical day

(compared to just 29% in 2000)

68%

connect using mobile devices

39%

feel they absolutely need to have Internet access

97%

of college graduates & those ages 18-29 use the Internet

Source: "The Web at 25 in the U.S."

Time to Vote for the Hilly Awards!

Voting is open for the annual Hilly Awards, and we're honored to be one of the nominees for Professional Service of the Year.

To vote for your favorite Hill businesses in 12 categories, just fill out the online ballot. Voting is open until September 28.

DC Access is a proud sponsor of the Hilly Awards, which are presented by CHAMPS, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce. We'd love to see you at the Awards Gala on December 6, which will be held at St. Mark's Church.

Buy your tickets here - or learn how to become a sponsor of this one-of-kind Hill event!

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

DC Access Expands to NOVA
Meet Quin, Our Newest Staff Member

Smart Surfing: Protecting Your Privacy on Public WiFi Networks

DC Access Expands to NOVA!

We're excited to share that we have acquired part of another local Internet Service Provider serving several multi-tenant buildings located in Arlington and Alexandria.

Since our founding in 1999, we have provided Internet service to customers on Capitol Hill and other areas of the District, and now we're able to take our unique brand of friendly, local service to neighborhoods in Northern Virginia.

We're still in the process of welcoming our newly acquired customers to the DC Access family. Moving forward, we'll be looking at opportunities to expand our NOVA customer base. Stay tuned for more details!

Meet Quin, Our Newest Staff Member

We're pleased to welcome Quintasus Williams to the DC Access team! As our administrative assistant, Quin will be handling phone calls, scheduling, payments and special projects.

Quin is a graduate of Year Up and she especially likes interacting with customers, which makes her a great fit for DC Access and our reputation for fast, friendly service. In her free time, Quin enjoys travel, reading and working out.

Smart Surfing: Protecting Your Privacy on Public WiFi Networks

When DC Access started offering Wireless Internet (WiFi) back in 2003, public WiFi hotspots were few and far between. Today, there are hotspots around every corner - at coffeeshops and restaurants, airports and hotels, schools and libraries, parks and museums.

Smartphones take advantage of the proliferation of public WiFi networks by allowing you to connect to the Internet using WiFi rather than your provider's 3G or 4G network - which can be a great way to avoid overages on your data plan. But it also means that many more people are connecting to public WiFi networks on a daily basis, often without thinking about privacy and security.

If you have WiFi at home or at work, it's easy to fall into the habit of hopping on WiFi in other locations and not adjusting your settings or behavior. To help protect yourself, here are few resources worth checking out:

OnGuardOnLine.gov, the federal government's website to help you be safe, secure and responsible online, provides "Tips for Using Public Wi-Fi Networks" here.

How-To Geek offers helpful advice in this article and nicely sums up the potential problems with public WiFi: "The open nature of the network allows for snooping, the network could be full of compromised machines, or - most worryingly - the hotspot itself could be malicious."

This overview from Techlicious also touches on common dangers and recommends setting up two-factor authentication for those sites that offer it (such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter) in order to add an extra layer of protection in case hackers do manage to steal your passwords using a public network.

One important tip stressed by all three sources: Change the settings on your devices - including smartphones - so that they don't automatically connect to public Wi-Fi networks!

Connect to public networks manually, or set your devices to request approval before connecting. That way you can select known, trusted networks and avoid the possibility of inadvertently connecting to "honeypots" - malicious Wifi networks set up by hackers who are counting on users to let their guard down.

You also want to turn off file sharing, which makes you vulnerable to hackers and snoopers when you connect to a public network.

We hope you have a wonderful fall!

Sincerely,

Martha & Matt

DC Access, LLC

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