What Is Fiber
Diagnose · 5 questions · ~60 seconds

Why is your internet actually slow?

Five questions. We'll tell you whether fiber would actually fix it, or whether the answer is “your router has been in that cabinet since 2017.” Most of the time, it's the second one — and we'll say so.

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What's actually going wrong?

Pick whichever bothers you most. We'll narrow it from here.

How honest this is

Five of the eleven verdicts don't recommend fiber at all.

That ratio is the point. Tools that lie to you about your router get bookmarked once and never returned to. The verdicts that say “move the router” or “replace your modem” or “your Wi-Fi is fighting your neighbors” mean it — and we have those verdicts because that's genuinely the most common answer.

When fiber would actually help — your upload is choked, you're past your data cap, your cable plant is degraded, your plan is too small for your household — we'll say that too. Each verdict has its own permanent URL so you can bookmark or share it.