Boulder's weather can swing from a warm, dry afternoon to a fast-moving snow squall within a few hours, and a household running its internet over the air — rather than through a buried cable — feels that swing differently depending on which wireless technology is doing the work. Some of what looks like a weather …

Somewhere between the cable threaded through the walls and the LTE that follows a phone to a coffee shop sits a third category of home internet that borrows properties from both without being entirely either: fixed wireless access, commonly abbreviated FWA. The technology has existed in various forms for years, but the …