Consumers today have their pick of home internet flavors.

If you want cheap and slow, then old-school DSL is for you. If you’ve toyed with streaming media but haven’t fully jumped into the present day, maybe you’d be inclined to choose coax cable. Fixed wireless will get you closer, but lacks in reliability, latency and more.

The only way, then, to truly experience all the possibilities of the internet — endless streaming of high-quality movies, TV and music, low-latency online gaming, and bandwidth to handle the biggest family reunion — is with future-proof, high-bandwidth fiber.

Online gaming’s been around for a minute, but it didn’t finally achieve its full potential until fiber internet became widely available. E-Sports are now a very real thing, with competitive gamers around the world battling for the prize. And now, thanks to some new developments, broadband fiber internet is a must for a maximum gaming experience.

Here are five big reasons fiber can take your game to the next level.

Faster internet is always better, but how much speed does your household actually need?

Fiber optics are the key to unlocking your home network’s full potential, and the most common tiers now available are tailored for different types of usage. Here is a look at what you can expect from each level of fiber internet.

Let’s start with a riddle. Out of all the precious and natural resources on Earth, only one of them is both abundant and scarce at the same time. It’s non-renewable, so you can’t make more of it. And no matter how far you dig, you’ll never find any to spare.

Many of us live in planned neighborhoods in our cities and towns across the southeastern U.S. That’s easy enough to grasp. But what’s a fiberhood?

The simple answer: Imagine your own neighborhood but with C Spire Fiber access, and voila! You’re now in a fiberhood, and your life is about to get a whole lot more fun and convenient.

“Symmetrical” sounds like a big thing, and for internet users, it is. But it’s not complicated.

Having a symmetrical internet signal means the download and upload speeds are about the same, and it’s important for the two-way communication we expect from modern internet and devices.