Moving? Here are three reasons your new home should have fiber internet
Moving? Do This Before You Unpack a Single Box
You've forwarded your mail, called the electric company, scheduled the gas transfer, and reserved the truck. You've thought of everything.
Or have you?
Most people treat internet setup as an afterthought when moving — something to handle after the furniture is in place — and they pay for it almost immediately.
What Actually Goes Wrong on Moving Day
Moving to a new home is already one of the most stressful events a household can experience. But bad internet makes it worse in ways you don't anticipate until you're standing in an empty living room surrounded by boxes.
Here’s how it goes: It’s the router that takes three hours to configure because the connection keeps dropping. It’s the video call with your new manager that freezes and cuts out. It’s the smart doorbell you installed for security that won't connect to the network no matter what you try.
Amid an already-exhausting day, these inconveniences are the last things you need to deal with. And if you locked yourself into a mediocre internet plan before you moved in, you'll keep paying that tax every single day you live there.
Why Fiber Internet is the Right Call
Your internet provider is one of the few home decisions to impact the day-to-day life of your household. The quality of your connection shapes how you work, how your family learns and plays, and how your home systems function.
Here are three reasons why you won’t regret choosing a fiber internet connection.
- Speed and Bandwidth for How You Actually Live
Internet speed specs are easy to tune out. What matters is whether or not your connection can handle everyone in the house doing what they need to do, at the same time, without anyone throttling anyone else.
Streaming in the living room, a work call from the home office, a kid on a video class, another device running a software update in the background — this is a typical evening for a lot of households. Fiber's symmetrical Gigabit speeds (equal upload and download) are built for exactly this, while cable-based internet was designed for an era when households downloaded far more than they uploaded. It’s headed toward extinction because it can’t keep up. - Reliability You Can Count On — Especially Somewhere New
When you move somewhere new, you don't know the local grid. You don't know which neighborhoods are most prone to losing power in a storm, which areas have aging infrastructure, or when outages tend to happen.
Fiber gives you one less thing to worry about. Because C Spire Fiber runs underground, weather-related outages that plague above-ground cable infrastructure are largely eliminated. And fiber is physically durable, too — a single line can withstand more than 100 pounds of pressure, meaning the connection holds up over time in ways copper simply doesn't. - Your Home Has More Connected Devices Than You Think
So, how many smartphones, tablets, laptops, security cameras, streaming devices, gaming consoles and appliances in your home connect to the internet?
According to the Fiber Broadband Association, the average U.S. home now has more than 20 connected devices. And they're all competing for bandwidth on your home network.
But while most other internet connections start struggling well before you hit that count, fiber internet can easily handle that load and a whole lot more.
Ready to get your new home up to speed?
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C Spire Fiber Internet: The Speed and Reliability You Need
Fiber home internet looks a lot different from when we helped pioneer fiber to the home more than a decade ago. But we’ve stacked up a lot of reasons why C Spire is still the best choice for consumers.
- Up to 8 Gbps symmetrical speeds
C Spire Fiber Internet has all the horsepower you need to stream, game and more, all at the same time. Plus, with symmetrical uploads and downloads, your devices can send data as quickly as they receive it — that means no gaming lag or screen-freeze on video calls. - WiFi that covers every corner of your home
C Spire Connect WiFi uses mesh technology to cover your entire home with seamless, high-speed internet. No more dead spots, no more dropped connections. - Over 99.99% reliability
Fiber-optic cable is not only more durable than copper-based lines, it also maintains signal strength much longer than traditional cable. And since C Spire’s fiber lines run underground, weather-related outages are a thing of the past. - Five-year price lock
No more nickel-and-diming and surprise price increases from those other providers. Customer Inspired means C Spire lets you lock in your plan price for five years so you don't have to worry about your bill changing. That’s peace of mind. - 24/7 customer support from the Blue Shoe Crew
Being customer inspired is easy when your team is the Blue Shoe Crew. You can trust our local experts to be on time and on their game for your fiber installation, ready to turn up your fiber internet and connect your new home and devices.