Daily Fiber For Your Home

This year, as I browsed around at the Salt lake City Parade of Homes, I was excited to see a few builders promoting Utopia in their homes where available. One of which, I believe was Wright Homes. Go Wright! I must admit, I am a sucker for home technology as I once worked for a home automation company, design | i, which installed home theaters and other fun stuff. So to see builders grasping technology and not shy away made me excited to see what future parades will feature.

For those who have not heard of Utopia, it is a group of cities who banded together to build a fiber optic network. What does this mean to us? Well, how about high speed internet with 15mbps up and down, digital phone service will unlimited long distance, and HD television, all through a fiber optic network. Last I checked you could get all 3 bundled for about $100/month. Now that’s cool.

Last year I moved to Murray and became discouraged that Comcast High Speed internet was not available in my area, and Qwest was not even an option open for discussion in our house. A co-worker suggested I look into Utopia, which was the first time I had ever heard of the network. I have now had it for over a year and love it. Last I checked there are 3 services providers for the service, Xmission, Nuvont, and Mstar. I have Internet from Xmission, and it is solid. I am thinking about maybe getting TV and phone this year. If you have these services, let us know and leave a comment if it is reliable and if you like it. For those who are building, check to see if Utopia is available in your area, and get your house wired! It will be worth it.