Backup internet, built for clinics.
Waveform Internet keeps a second, independent connection running at all times. When the primary line fails, nobody in the waiting room has to be told why.
"With Waveform, it actually works. My primary ISP can drop completely, and my connection stays alive without me even noticing."
Bob R. Verified buyer
30-day free returns · No contracts · Preconfigured for your clinic
You've had this day.
The chart won't load with the patient already in the room, the front desk can't verify eligibility, and the phones are down so nobody can call ahead to reschedule. Every minute the connection is out is appointments running long and slots you never fill.
The family practice.
Cloud charts are a gift right up until the connection fails. Then a physician is reduced to asking the patient what they remember, and the visit that should take twelve minutes takes twenty-five.
The dental office.
Everything here is booked to the minute, which works beautifully until one link in the chain stops. A card that won't authorize at the front desk pushes the whole afternoon back, chair by chair.
The urgent care.
It all starts at the front desk. Eligibility checks stop coming back, online check-in disappears from the listings that send you walk-ins, and the lobby backs up until the people who can go elsewhere do.
The practice group.
From the admin office it looks like silence. Charts stop syncing, the desk phone rings out because the phones are down too, and your first real information arrives by text from a provider who stepped outside for signal.
What's actually breaking
Usually, it's not the EHR, or the card processor, or the scheduling platform. It's the one connection underneath everything, with no backup when internet access drops.
Today: one line, one failure point
Most clinics run the EHR, phones, e-prescribing, eligibility checks, telehealth, imaging uploads and the card terminal over one internet line. When that line drops or gets congested, everything above it starts failing at once.
With Waveform: multiple networks already working
Waveform adds a 5G connection on a different network and keeps it active alongside your existing ISP. Critical traffic, like the EHR, phones, and card payments, can ride both connections at the same time. If one path fails, the other is already carrying traffic.
What Waveform Internet customers say
"We went from $780/month with mediocre performance and a ton of overhead, to $125/month with better performance and basically zero overhead. Someone on their team is actually watching our connection and reaches out before I even notice something's off. This stuff used to require an IT department or an expensive consultant."
Verified buyer · April 2026
"We switched to Waveform from T-Mobile and have had a very positive experience. Our speeds and reliability have improved significantly. … Most importantly, their customer service is top-notch. No chatbots, just real people."
Verified buyer · March 2026
Rated 5.0 by verified Waveform Internet customers. From the team behind Waveform, with 100,000+ systems deployed across all 50 states.
Built for the way your clinic actually works.
Waveform Internet runs your existing ISP and a 5G connection at the same time. You get a second path to the internet, active before you need it.
Multiple active networks
Your wired ISP and cellular connection have different failure modes. If one drops, slows down, or gets congested, your clinic still has a live path out.
Selective bonding for critical traffic
The EHR, telehealth, phones, and other sensitive traffic can use both connections at once for smoother failover. Less critical traffic uses whichever connection is performing best.
Managed by people who know the system
We configure the hardware, supply the SIM, monitor the connection, and handle support. One service, one bill, one team to call.
How bonding and automatic failover work
Your existing ISP carries most everyday traffic. Multiple 5G connections on separate cellular networks run alongside it, active all the time. Payment and EHR traffic goes through an encrypted bonded tunnel, using every available connection at once and exiting through one persistent public IP. Everyday traffic, like waiting-room Wi-Fi, streaming, and browsing, uses the best available single connection.
Built for your clinic, starting at
$140/month
On Smart tier backup configuration with Selective Bonding. Includes hardware, SIM, 5G data, monitoring, and support. No setup fee.
Setup in 5 minutes. No professional installation.
Most internet redundancy turns into a project.
The usual options are a service visit, booked weeks out and repeated at every location, or a DIY build with hardware, SIMs, failover rules, testing, and ongoing maintenance. Across a group, the install is only the first problem.
Waveform Internet doesn't.
Every unit ships preconfigured for the clinic it's going to. The SIM is installed, the hardware is tested, and the location is already in our monitoring system. Attach the antennas, connect your existing internet line, plug in power, and it comes online.
Delivered
3 to 5 days · Preconfigured for your clinic
Plug in
Under 5 minutes · No IT needed
Online
Immediately · Multiple networks active
Monitored
24/7 · We usually see issues first
We monitor everything 24/7
Every connection is monitored 24/7 so unexpected outages get caught early. When latency rises, packet loss appears, or cellular signal degrades, our team sees it and fixes it. And if you do need to talk to us, you'll connect directly to the engineers monitoring and fixing it.
Acknowledged in
8 min avg
15 min max
Most issues resolved in
15-20 min avg
30 min max
After-hours resolution
~1 hr avg
1.5 hr max
Not sure where to start?
Talk to the people who built Waveform Internet. Tell us a little about your clinics and we'll look at your locations, your current setup, and what actually needs protecting, then tell you what we'd recommend.
Thanks, we've got it. One of the team will get back to you about your setup. If you'd rather not wait, check availability at your address in the meantime.
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Common questions from practice managers
If your question isn't here, ask us directly.
Will this work with athenahealth, Epic, Dentrix, or eClinicalWorks?
Yes, and there's nothing to install on your side. Your clinical systems never see us; we're the network underneath them. athenahealth, Epic, Dentrix, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, or anything else cloud-hosted will behave exactly as it does today. What changes is priority: the EHR and the phones get served ahead of a waiting room full of phones on the guest network.
What happens to telehealth visits during an outage?
They keep running. A telehealth visit is a live video call, which makes a mid-session drop the most visible failure a clinic can have. With bonding, the visit's traffic can travel more than one connection at once, so a failed line doesn't end the appointment; the call carries on over the surviving path.
The same goes for your phones. If they're VoIP, they can ride the protected lane too, so the front desk keeps answering while the primary line is down.
What happens during an internet outage?
Ideally, the day continues and nobody in the building can tell you when it happened. Traffic moves to the surviving connection by itself, and anything bonded, payments, the EHR, and phones included, was already traveling both paths when the failure hit. Our team gets the alert directly, so the investigation usually starts before the front desk notices anything.
How fast is it?
Plenty for a full schedule. The EHR, phones, payments, cameras, and waiting-room Wi-Fi together are a light load by internet standards, and most of it runs at the native speed of your healthiest connection.
The bonded path is the one exception: it trades top speed for resilience and tops out around 200 Mbps. That ceiling is the hardware doing the encryption, not a cap we've set, and it applies only to traffic in the bonded lane. A telehealth call uses a few megabits and a card payment a few kilobytes, so neither gets near it.
How do you handle multi-location practices?
One account, one point of contact, centralized billing, and a separately preconfigured unit for every address. After go-live, we watch each location around the clock and only escalate the things that need a decision from you.
Monitoring runs 24/7. Our team is staffed from 6am Eastern to 9pm Pacific, which covers clinic hours coast to coast.
There's deliberately no customer dashboard. Monitoring is part of what you're paying us to do, so we do it, and we get in touch when something needs action.
What hardware do you ship me?
A Core Router configured for your specific location, with 5G built in and the SIM already seated. Where a design calls for extra cellular capacity or another network, we add an Add-On Modem. All of it is commercial-grade Peplink equipment meant to run around the clock. If your building needs unusual mounting or antennas, we work that out with you before anything ships.
How long until we're online after we order?
About a week, and most of that is shipping. We spend a day or two on configuration before the unit goes to the courier for 3 to 5 days, and the install at your end is measured in minutes. Groups can bring locations online in parallel; the pace is usually set by each clinic's schedule rather than by anything on our side.
If an address looks like it will need an antenna survey or custom mounting, we say so before you order, not after.
Do you support HIPAA and PCI compliance?
Neither certification is something an internet provider holds on your behalf, so those obligations stay with your practice. What we can do is make sure the network underneath isn't the weak link in your risk assessment.
In practice, that means clinical systems and devices segmented onto their own VLAN, away from waiting-room Wi-Fi. Traffic through the bonded tunnel encrypted in transit, and on Smart that's the lane your EHR, phones, and payments already run in; anything else you want in there, tell us and we'll put it there. A static public IP on Smart tiers if your EHR or imaging vendor needs to allowlist you. Firewall rules and access controls set to whatever your security policy calls for. And we manage the connection, not the data crossing it.
Send us the requirements you're working to, including your vendor's network checklist if you have one, and we'll go through it line by line and tell you plainly what we can and can't do.
Can our EHR and imaging vendors reach us remotely?
Yes. This is worth raising early, because it's where most cellular backup quietly fails.
Cellular connections normally sit behind carrier NAT, which means nothing can reach them from the outside. That breaks vendor remote support, site-to-site VPN, and anything that needs to see a fixed address at your clinic. We can provide a static public IP at no cost on Smart tiers, so your imaging system, your VPN, and any vendor who needs to allowlist you all keep working exactly as they would on a wired line.
Tell us what needs to be reachable and we'll have it configured before the unit ships.
Do check-in tablets and devices on Wi-Fi stay online?
Yes, provided they can still see your Wi-Fi. Nothing changes for the device itself: a check-in tablet keeps talking to the same access point it always has, and only the route out of the building changes, from the failed line to cellular.
Power is the honest exception. Bonding does nothing for you in an outage that takes the lights with it, so if you want charting and payments to survive that too, the router and your access points belong on a small UPS. Tell us your setup and we'll say what to plug in where.
What's the difference between failover and bonding?
Failover is sequential. One connection dies, another takes over, and there's a gap while that happens, which is how most backup products behave.
Bonding removes the gap by running connections simultaneously. We bond selectively, reserving it for traffic where an interruption costs money, like payments, the EHR, telehealth, and calls, and let everything else fail over intelligently instead.
Do I need a technical person to set this up?
No. Configuration happens here before we ship, and the physical install is antennas, two cables, and a wall outlet. Anything that needs adjusting later, we adjust remotely. Nobody on your staff has to become the network person.
How does this compare to T-Mobile Business Internet Backup?
It's a reasonable product for what it is: one 5G connection that steps in after your ISP fails, at a lower price than ours. If a brief gap during the switch is tolerable and nobody needs to be watching it for you, it may well be enough for some clinics.
We're built for the clinics where the gap is the problem. Multiple connections running at once, bonding on the critical traffic, hardware and SIM included, monitoring around the clock and a team on the other end of it. The extra cost buys the difference between a spare tire and a second engine already running.
How does this compare to SD-WAN services like Bigleaf?
SD-WAN platforms mostly assume ingredients you already own: a second connection installed, compatible hardware, and someone comfortable writing and maintaining failover policy. We show up with all of it in the box: connection, plan, router, configuration, monitoring, support.
If you have an IT team that wants to run the stack, SD-WAN done well is a fine route. If you'd rather buy the outcome than assemble the parts, that's what we're for.
Can I use this as my primary internet?
Yes, there are primary tiers built on cellular. Most clinics shouldn't start there, though: if a workable wired line already exists, keeping it and adding an active cellular path gives you two kinds of infrastructure instead of one, which is the whole idea. Primary earns its place where wired options are bad, late, or missing entirely, like rural sites and new builds still waiting on fiber.
Does this work in rural areas without fiber?
Often better than in a city, since rural wired service is exactly where reliability runs thinnest. We test cellular coverage against your street address before anything ships and tell you plainly what to expect. If the signal looks borderline, an external antenna can go in the kit.
Does this work with Starlink?
Yes, happily. A dish can be one of the connections we manage, and for truly remote clinics it's often the right architecture. Satellite and cellular fail independently, where two wired providers often hang from the same pole down the road.
How much data does it use? Are there overage fees?
No overage fees, ever, and everyday traffic carries no cap at all. The bonded path is the only thing we meter: 250 GB a month on Smart. Payments, EHR entries, and phone calls are tiny, so most clinics sit nowhere near it.
Telehealth is the one to watch: bonded video uses roughly a gigabyte or two per hour, so a heavy virtual schedule can get close. If that sounds like your clinic, tell us and we'll size it with you before you order rather than let you find out in week three. And if you do go over, we'll usually just cover it and come to you about a bigger allowance if it becomes a habit.
What if it doesn't work at one of our locations?
Send everything back inside the first 30 days for a full refund, hardware included, with no restocking fee and no one making it awkward. It doesn't happen often, because coverage gets checked at the address before we ship, but the exit stays open.
Is there a contract?
No. The service is month to month; leave whenever you like. Hardware works one of two ways: buy it upfront and it's yours from day one, or rent it monthly for as long as you're a customer and send it back when you stop. And the first 30 days work like a trial: if it's not the right fit, everything goes back for a full refund.
Can I keep my existing router or networking gear?
Usually, yes. We slot in upstream of your current router and take over the multi-WAN decisions, and everything behind it keeps working exactly as it does today. Networks with more moving parts, like VLANs, VoIP phones, or imaging equipment pinned to fixed addresses, get a design review with us before anything ships.
One line shouldn't decide how your day goes.
30-day free returns. No contract. Real human support to keep your business online.