Fiber Internet

Now in your neighborhood.

Follow the progress of Buckeye Fiber construction and learn what to expect as crews work to bring faster, more reliable internet to your community.

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The Benefits of Fiber Internet

Fiber is the fastest, most secure, and most reliable Internet service available. Experience a connection like never before with more broadband than ever before with up to 10 Gig Internet speed.

Buckeye Broadband's Gig Internet service will power the heaviest bandwidth activities with its advanced fiber optic technology. Discover which of our fastest Internet speeds can serve your broadband needs below.

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Before Installation

Inspection

Before construction begins, our specialists will evaluate your neighborhood and plan the best path for the fiber network. During this inspection, we'll consider factors such as landscaping, utilities, sprinkler systems, and other features that may affect construction.

Utility Marking

To help ensure a smooth installation process and minimize disruption, local utility companies will mark the location of existing underground utilities using paint or flags. These markings help crews work safely while protecting important services like water, gas, electric, and communications lines.

Permits and Construction

Permits

Before any work begins, Buckeye secures the required permits and approvals for your area. All construction is completed within approved rights-of-way and easements and follows local regulations.

Construction

After permits are approved and utilities are marked, our crews begin building the fiber network. Depending on your area, fiber-optic lines may be installed underground or attached to existing utility poles to connect homes and businesses to Buckeye Fiber Internet.

After Construction

Cleaning Up

We take pride in leaving your neighborhood looking its best. After construction is complete, our crews will restore any impacted streets, sidewalks, and landscaping as close as possible to their original condition.

Fiber Installation

Once construction is complete, you'll be able to enjoy Buckeye Fiber Internet. When service becomes available, we'll contact you to schedule an installation appointment.

Installations typically take about two hours. During your appointment, our technician will install a fiber-optic line, a small exterior connection box, an Optical Network Terminal (ONT), and a WiFi router to get your service up and running.

Symmetrical Speeds

Get the best in Fiber Internet with availability in equal upload and download speeds up to 10 Gigs.

Fiber To The Home

Bring the fastest Internet speeds with Fiber To The Home technology. Connect 20+ devices with speeds up to 10 Gigs.

Reliable and Secure

Increase security and enhance reliability with fiber Internet. Prevent lag and protect your data with Fiber by Buckeye.

Buckeye Broadband Promise

As part of Buckeye Broadband’s commitment to provide advanced technology to its customers, Buckeye Broadband is building Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology across its entire footprint.

We don’t pick and choose pockets to bring Fiber to, we are building Fiber for all.

Buckeye Fiber Frequently Asked Questions

Buckeye Broadband is building Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology across its entire footprint and will need access to your yard to complete the neighborhood upgrade.

Yes, Buckeye may work in the easement or public rights of way. We will leave a small yard sign in the yard notifying you that we are building Fiber to your home. We make it our mission to put your yard and landscaping as we found it.

Right-Of-Way: A type of easement that allows companies to use a piece of land for the express purpose of public travel, such as creating bridges, roads, etc. It allows us to use land for public utilities, aka fiber-optic Internet.

Once the Buckeye construction team upgrades the neighborhood with Fiber, our installation team needs to complete the Fiber-to-the-Home upgrade.

During this appointment, the technician will install a small utility box called an optical network terminal (or ONT) outside or inside your home.

The installation team will run an optical jumper to the ONT to connect your home to the fiber-optic network. The ONT will connect to your router via an Ethernet connection. The ONT is a modem equivalent and there is no charge for this device when you subscribe to a Buckeye Fiber package.

In order to ensure the fastest, easiest, and least damaging installation process, being told in advance about these types of things is a must. They can be painted or marked with flags as well to assist our technicians.

To aid in avoiding problems or damaging other utilities, all markers and paint need to stay until the installation process is fully complete.

Fiber Internet uses fiber optic cables, made of thin strands of glass, to deliver internet directly to your home. Fiber uses laser pulses to carry Internet data, which is better for data transmission over long distances. Fiber cables can also carry much more bandwidth than similarly sized copper cables and are immune to signal interference.

Rebuilding our entire cable plant to Fiber Internet is a massive undertaking and will be completed over the next ten years. Buckeye is dedicated to building hundreds of miles of fiber each year, and will continue to do so until our entire footprint is complete

Buckeye Fiber provides symmetrical upload and download speeds for Internet with Unlimited Data. Our bandwidth plan ranges from 200 Mbps to 10 Gig download and upload speeds.

This is especially important if your family uses multiple devices for multiple high-usage activities like streaming, gaming, video chatting or smart home devices. Buckeye Fiber lets you do all these things, at the same time, without sacrificing performance.

Fiber gives you the ability to have symmetrical uploads and downloads, so your computer is able to send data as quickly as it receives it. Symmetrical download and upload speeds are exactly the same. For instance, Fiber 1 Gig will have 1,000 Mbps download and 1,000 Mbps upload speeds.

As an example, symmetrical speed provides a better user experience for those that video conference. In order for you to have a productive meeting online, you have to hear and see others in real time, without delay. Buckeye Fiber provides this benefit.

Our current system is a Fiber-to-the-Node construction. This type of system delivers services over Fiber to a point in your neighborhood. From there, it is sent to your home over a coaxial cable. There are many benefits to a Fiber-to-the-Home system, the biggest of which is the ability to offer symmetrical (same upload and download) Internet speeds.

Buckeye Fiber Internet is capable of delivering faster speeds than coaxial cable Internet. That’s not to say Cable Internet isn’t fast—Cable Internet can reach speeds up to 1,000 Mbps, which is plenty of speed for most everything you can do online. Buckeye Fiber is simply better equipped to handle more bandwidth by providing symmetrical speeds and sends information at the speed of light. Large amounts of data can travel very quickly, making Buckeye Fiber ten times faster than copper wire connections.

With traditional Internet, high-frequency electrical signals shoot through copper wires to deliver the information, or data, needed to game, stream and communicate over the internet. This copper wire was originally intended for transmitting simple voice data over shorter distances, though. It was never meant to carry large amounts of data at high speeds. But that’s exactly what we demand from our Internet, and those data packets are only getting larger.

No. At this time, CableCards are not supported and TiVo devices are not compatible with Buckeye Fiber technology.

StreamTV is the video solution for homes that upgrade to Buckeye Fiber. You no longer need equipment to view or record your programming.

StreamTV is available on streaming devices such as an Amazon Fire TV Stick, Roku or Apple TV. Buckeye Broadband offers a streaming box if you prefer to rent a box. StreamTV comes with three streams and 100 DVR Cloud hours.

ONT stands for Optical Network Terminal. An ONT device is necessary for your home network if you have Fiber installed. The ONT acts like a modem equivalent and there is no charge for this device.

No, there are no current retail ONT devices on the market that is compatible to work on our platform. Buckeye Broadband will permanently install an ONT device in your home. With Buckeye Fiber, Internet Equipment Fees are included and several options are available for your WiFi router needs.