# We have a gateway!

> We've reached our first milestone of successfully connecting our first gateway to the network. Well, when I say gateway, I really mean a collection of bare circ

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Isle of Man](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/isle-of-man/)
- Author: Dan Wood
- Published: 2016-08-19
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/isle-of-man/post/we-have-a-gateway

We've reached our first milestone of successfully connecting our first gateway to the network.

Well, when I say gateway, I really mean a collection of bare circuit boards held together with jumper wires, but it's a start and it seems to work.