The San Rafael, Calif.-based software giant that makes AutoCAD also has offices in Manchester, N.H., but Mr. Falasse is able to work from home, thanks to the recent availability of high-speed Internet service.

“I couldn’t do the job with dial-up,” said the native of France from his well appointed third-floor office. His desk is equipped with the latest computer equipment including two oversized monitors.

But dial-up was the only Internet connection available in Hall Quarry when he accepted the job this summer. The town of Mount Desert had contracted RedZone Wireless to build a network of radio relays to provide high-speed wireless Internet service to residents but it hadn’t yet reached Hall Quarry.

“My start day was Sept. 10,” said Mr. Falasse. “We harassed RedZone Wireless, bugging them every day until they came.”

“They” meaning the small start-up company’s CEO, Jim McKenna, and local technician Wendell Oppewell.

On Oct. 3, with the aid of a forklift, Mr. McKenna climbed onto the roof and placed a relay on top of the early-20th-century house, bringing high-speed wireless Internet service, not only to that house, but to the entire village. The relay catches a signal from another RedZone relay mounted atop a private home on Schoolhouse Ledge in Northeast Harbor and bounces it to a third relay at the head of Somes Sound.

“The WiFi signal reaches our neighbors within 500 yards,” said Mr. Falasse.

Neighbors beyond that range need a small piece of hardware to amplify the signal.

“It’s a great thing for us,” he said. “It’s faster than cable, downloading at 2.5 megabits per second.”

Mr. Schulman, who has been a producer and host on French public radio, and now works as a music critic and producer, writing for “The ARSC Journal” and reviewing CDs of classic American pop, also works from home and relies on access to the Internet. He said that RedZone deserves a lot of credit for providing high-speed service in isolated areas that telephone and cable companies won’t touch.

“When you think that Fairpoint is not even here yet, and what’s more RedZone provides higher speed that Fairpoint plans to, more people should be encouraged to consider RedZone, at least in my opinion,” Mr. Schulman said.

By placing a relay on their house, he said, they are helping the company, helping themselves, and helping the community. They receive a $10-a-month discount for allowing the company to put a relay on their roof. Mr. Falasse said they have saved money by eliminating their extra phone line and fees for their former Internet service provider.

But more importantly, he said, the high-speed service allows him to telecommute across from the continent.

“Maine has a problem. It has great colleges but people move out to get jobs,” he said. “I am bringing taxes back to Maine. I am also bringing business to Maine. Everyone I know in California is buying their lobster from the Trenton Bridge.”

Formerly employed by AeroHydro, a boat design company in Southwest Harbor that went out of business, Mr. Falasse worked in Boston for a year, coming back to Hall Quarry on weekends, a lifestyle he found unsustainable.

He put his resume on Monster.com and spent about six months looking for a new job. He interviewed at The Jackson Laboratory but was not hired.

“We were going to move and sell the house,” he said.

But then AutoDesk hired him. He now has a well paying job with generous benefits (his cat Jose has health insurance) and can stay in Maine, with occasional business trip to San Francisco and Manchester.

“This is an opportunity for employment in Maine that is more than the Down East Magazine picture of lobsters and blueberries,” he said.