A 90-second guide

How much speed do you need?

Probably less than you think, and the answer depends on what your household does at once. Add it up below, then pick the plan with room to spare.

↓ Start with what one thing needs

Start here

Speed (bandwidth) is how much your house can do at once.

A connection's speed, or bandwidth, is how much data it can move each second. One video stream takes a slice of it. Ten things at once take ten slices. So the speed you need is the total of everything running in your house in its busiest minute.

A gigabit, 1,000 Mbps, is the figure most ads lead with. Keep it in mind as a yardstick while we look at what one activity uses.

1,000Mbps

A gigabit. Now the pieces that add up to what you use.

The receipts

What one thing needs

The FCC publishes the minimum download speed each activity needs to run well. These are its figures, not ours.

Browsing, email & social media1 Mbps
HD video call (Zoom, FaceTime)1.5 Mbps
Online multiplayer gaming4 Mbps
Streaming HD video5–8 Mbps
Working from home / telecommuting5–25 Mbps
Streaming 4K Ultra HD video25 Mbps

Source: FCC Broadband Speed Guide. Figures are minimum download speeds for one activity at a time.

A 4K stream, the most demanding item on the list, uses 25 Mbps. Forty of them fit in a gigabit. So the speed you need depends on how many of these run in your house at the same time.

The reality check

Build your busiest moment

Picture the busiest minute in your home, with everyone online at once. Add what is running and watch your number appear.

What's running right now?

Count everything happening simultaneously, at peak.

HD streamsNetflix, YouTube, Disney+ in HD · 8 Mbps each0
Work / school video callsHD conferencing · 6 Mbps each0
Online gamersMultiplayer gaming · 4 Mbps each0
Phones / tablets browsingSocial, web, email · 2 Mbps each0
Smart home gadgetsCameras, speakers, thermostats · 1 Mbps each0
Your busiest-moment demand
0 Mbps
05001,000 (a gig)
Start adding activities above. Most people are surprised how low this stays.
A gig is 1,000 Mbps. You're using 0% of it.

We round each activity up so the estimate errs high.

Even a packed house, with several HD screens, two people on calls, a gamer, and a pile of phones, rarely passes 150 Mbps. That total, plus room to grow, is the speed to shop for.

Beyond speed

What else makes internet feel fast

Once you have enough speed for what your house does, four other things decide how your internet feels. Each of our five plans is built around them.

Whole-home coverage

A strong signal in every room beats a fast connection that dies down the hall. Dead spots are the most common reason a home feels slow.

Low latency

How fast the network responds, not how much it can carry. It's why a call stays smooth and a game doesn't lag. Speed alone can't fix it.

Reliability you don't think about

Internet that just works, every night at 8 PM when the whole neighborhood is streaming. We manage how many homes share each tower, so the speed you pay for is the speed you receive.

Local people who answer

When something does go wrong, a real person in Southern Utah fixes it faster than any spec sheet can. No plan page lists that, so we say it here.

Putting it together

Pick the plan that fits how you live.

Each of our plans is built around a kind of household: the speed it needs, the coverage, and the priorities that matter to it. Every plan page shows the speed range to expect, and we confirm your exact speed at install.

Find the plan built for how you live

See which plans and speeds reach your address before you spend a dime.

Want the most headroom we offer? Some people like knowing they will never reach the ceiling, and that is a good reason. Our Ultimate fiber plan exists for them. Pick your speed on purpose, and you will get exactly what you pay for.