Setting up AirWave Fiber
AirWave Fiber is not a modem swap. Nobody ships you a box and nobody schedules a technician. Your router joins AirWave's network over an encrypted tunnel, and from that moment your traffic is carried, metered, and billed by AirWave at a flat 15¢ per GB. Here is exactly what that involves.
What you need
- An OpenWrt-based router. GL.iNet, Teltonika, Cudy, and many 5G gateways qualify. If your router runs OpenWrt under the hood, it works. If it is a locked ISP rental with no SSH access, it does not — that box belongs to the old provider, not to you.
- Any internet underneath. Say this plainly: the tunnel rides on top of whatever pipe you already have — cable, fiber, 5G — while AirWave builds out last-mile supply. What changes is whose network your traffic lives in once it leaves the modem: ours.
- An AirWave account. Your Fiber wallet is provisioned with your line, so there is nothing to top up on day one.
The four steps
- 1. Enable edge access on the Fiber setup page. This mints your household credential and confirms your wallet. It moves no traffic.
- 2. Paste one command into your router's terminal. The setup page shows a command made for your household. It installs the connector, joins your encrypted tunnel, and switches every device behind the router to Cloudflare DNS. Re-running it is safe.
- 3. Watch it meter. The same page shows today's usage in Eastern time, your wallet balance, and which point of presence serves you. The commercial day closes at 7pm Eastern and the wallet is debited for exactly what moved — to the byte, never rounded per chunk.
- 4. Add funds. Fiber is prepaid: $10, $25, or $50 at a tap on the Fiber setup page, straight into your wallet by card. Traffic pauses at $0.00 and resumes the moment funds land — no re-setup, and any prior-days balance is cleared first.
What it costs
A flat 15¢ per GB, billed daily at 7pm Eastern against your wallet. No tiers, no overages, no cap to hit: 300 GB in a month is $45. A gigabyte you do not send costs you nothing, which is the entire reason this price is possible — fiber economics charge for capacity, not per gigabyte, unlike cellular.
What it does not do (yet)
The tunnel carries web traffic — browsing, streaming, downloads, video calls — which is the overwhelming majority of household bytes. Protocols outside HTTP need the routed-egress step we are building toward, and the physical last mile still needs a supply contract before anyone can cancel their cable modem. We would rather say both plainly than have you discover them.
Want the numbers?
AirWave is data-only 5G for Northeastern PA. A flat 82¢ per GB, billed daily for what you actually use. No contract, no data cap, no equipment rental.