We're building Common Ground WiFi to provide consistent, reliable, high speed internet access for our students when they are not in a school building. This network will span roughly 40 square miles at completion and will offer connectivity to students from East Moline, United Township and Colona school districts. A trial phase is currently under construction in East Moline. As the trial phase is completed and tests are passed, construction will progress through parts of East Moline, Silvis and to Colona before turning back towards Silvis and East Moline.
There is no sign up process. Families do not need to register or sign up for this service. As the network builds out your students school issued devices will connect automatically when in range of the network. This network will be available to your students devices whether they are at home or riding the bus to and from school. School District devices will be set up to seamlessly switch between school district networks and Common Ground WiFi.
The system will use state-of-the-art ruggedized outdoor network technology that will be distributed throughout the communities, enabling a meshed network that spans miles.
Deployment
Coverage Area
Network deployment status information will be posted here as the rollout of the network progresses.
The map above shows the entire coverage are of the WiFi network. Fully served communities will include East Moline, Silvis & Colona. Possible additions to the network will be updated on this site as they are identified and confirmed.