Boulder has one of the highest concentrations of remote workers and knowledge workers on the Front Range. Between the NCAR crowd, CU affiliates, and the tech companies that have been parking employees here since the pandemic made geography optional, a huge slice of Boulder households now depend entirely on their home …

Boulder has a lot going for it — mountains, sunshine, a strong remote-work culture — but internet reliability is not always one of them. A severe thunderstorm on the Front Range, a foothills power event, or a neighborhood dig that nicks a conduit can take down your Comcast/Xfinity or fiber connection for hours, …

If you live in Boulder and you're shopping for home internet — or just trying to figure out which phone plan keeps you connected from the Hill to the Flatirons trailhead — the first question worth answering is which carrier's 5G actually reaches your address. T-Mobile tends to lead on sheer coverage breadth across the …

Two of the most talked-about ways to get online in Boulder don't run a single wire to your house. T-Mobile Home Internet beams a 5G signal from a nearby cell tower to a gateway on your windowsill; Starlink pulls a connection out of the sky from low-orbit satellites. Both skip the cable and fiber buildout entirely — …

For years, getting home internet in Boulder meant calling the cable company and taking what you were given. That's changed. A wave of wireless options now beam internet to your house over the same 5G networks that serve your phone — no buried cable, no install crew, no contract. For a renter, a foothills household, or …

Drive ten minutes west of downtown Boulder and the internet map falls apart. The cable runs out, fiber was never trenched up the canyon, and even 5G fixed wireless needs a tower it can see. For households in the foothills, the canyons, and the rural stretches of Boulder County, Starlink is often the only broadband on …

Verizon 5G Home is the quiet contender in Boulder's wireless internet race. It gets less attention than T-Mobile's home product, and it is not the off-grid answer that satellite is for the foothills. But for one group of Boulder households it is the cheapest fast connection available: people who already pay Verizon for …

A Boulder address can be ten minutes from a fiber-wired downtown and still have no real broadband. The wired networks stop where the grid stops, and the foothills, canyons, and rural county lots above the city are where the map goes blank. If you've just bought or rented up Sunshine Canyon, Fourmile, Boulder Canyon, or …

Renting in Boulder comes with a familiar internet headache. You sign a lease, then discover the apartment is wired for one cable provider, the install needs a technician appointment you have to be home for, and the promotional rate runs out around the time your lease does. Fixed wireless avoids most of that. A 5G home …

If you found this site, you may be wondering whether WiMAX is available in Boulder — or what happened to it. The short answer: WiMAX never arrived here, and the technology itself is effectively dead. The longer answer is worth understanding, because what replaced WiMAX is significantly better for Boulder homes today. …