Frequently Asked Questions

Installation

Wicked Fast 5G has towers all over Park City, so the short answer is probably, or yes, or not just yet. After you reach out to Wicked, we will schedule a free Line of Sight inspection at your home to check for obstructions like trees or hills. Not all sites will have ideal conditions and in these areas performance will be lower. After your site survey is approved by the tech, Wicked will contact you to schedule install. A normal install takes about 2-4 hours. We schedule installs at 9AM, 1 PM and sometimes at 5PM if day time installs are inconvenient for you. 

Yes. Our installers will need you to check your WiFi connection after install. Install takes about 2-4 hours. The homeowner will need to provide an outlet for the Wicked Power Supply and router.  

Wicked connects you to the fastest and best wireless fiber internet product in Park City. It cost Wicked $840 to connect a new customer to our network, and we do not have long-term contracts, so the $299 covers the customer's share of the install. The variable install fee for the 5G business plan scales depending on how far away from our tower you are and what speed you need.

That's right, at Wicked there are no long-term contracts. Our agreement is month to month from day one. Stay with us because you want to not because you have to. The Wicked user Agreement will change from time to time, it is user responsibility to read and understand User Agreement as linked from the bottom of each page

Your plan is simple, you get what you pay for PLUS more. Other companies are tricky and sell plans that are "UP TO" speeds. We do not do that. The Wicked 5G plans have Unlimited and Full-Throttle service without any caps or data limits. Our unlimited everything is designed for average home use, if our engineers detect you are using TOR or managing closet file hosting or file sharing or max loading our residential bandwidth for non-average home use, we will shut you off without notice. We do have business plans for commercial file sharing purposes. The user agreement is linked at the bottom of each page.

The Wicked managed router reports the health of your connection to our engineers at our 24-7 NOC. With a managed router, our service and factory techs can upgrade the system firmware and make adjustments instantly without sending a tech to visit your home. Managed routers have a $6.95 per month service fee.  

Cable technology is over 50 years old and is very slow and outdated by today's standard. Over 10,000 cable subscribers will cancel their cable and switch to streaming internet today, are you one of them? Wicked is much faster and more stable than most cable internet providers. With our 5G unlimited plans you will see speeds over 100 Mbps each way and latency usually under 5ms. Most cable products will have very slow upload speeds, higher latency and very unreliable download speeds. 

Bundles are designed by cable companies to keep you stuck in overpriced contracts. With Wicked, cancel your bundle and just buy the streaming and phone programs you want. You can buy streaming packages identical to your cable product at a lower price - add a VoIP phone with OOMA and you have a bundle that you control and turn off at any time. Bundles are bad, Wicked does not bundle, we are really good at what we do and that is one thing - Fast Internet!

Each company has their own wireless coverage map, so just because another company is limited in your area, does not translate taht Wicked cannot deliver excellent service to you. If you are in a radio hole, Wicked can work with your HOA to deliver a private wireless connection to your HOA area. We usually do charge a fee to the HOA for the engineering of the high bandwidth fiber backhaul and access point equipment. So the short answer is maybe. If we can get a line of site to one of our towers, then yes. 

Wicked 5G service is delivered by our roof mount 5G radio that is connected by ethernet to a router in your home provided by Wicked. You plug in your WiFi to our router. We suggest the Orbi AC3000 RBK53.

Wicked provides a router as part of our simple install. Your WiFi connects into our router at port 2. We do suggest upgrading your WiFi tot he Orbi AC3000 RBK53 to handle the speeds that Wicked will be provided to you. Some older WiFI maxes out at 100 Mbps and we will be delivering speeds greater than that. 

Wicked hires professional subcontractors for all our installs. These installers are paid a flat rate by Wicked to complete our Simple Install which includes mounting a 5G radio to your home and connecting that radio with a cat6 cable to a Wicked router located in a room with an exterior wall. The install tech is available for direct hire by you for consulting, network upgrades or running cat6 to other rooms, The price and payment for extra work requested by homeowner and provided by subcontractor is not part of the Wicked simple install. The Wicked installer will also connect and program a customer provided Orbi AC3000 RBK53 at no additional charge at the time of install.

WIFI, Speed & Connections

Use your iphone and go to the Tech Support Page on www.WickedFastInternet.com web site - look for operations update and follow the steps on the tech support page for slow or dropped connection. Our direct number is 435-287-4444. Your service is wireless and just like your satellite, may be impacted by extreme weather (extreme wind, slush or rain) and outages by upstream third parties like fiber, data exchanges or utility. Our published response time is 24 hours but we usually respond within 1 hour. 

Great Question. And this does not happen to everyone. Our install tech will position your antenna on your home for the best line of sight with one of our towers. Sometimes there may be a tree that bends in the wind and obstructs the line of sight. The antenna is also precision aligned and high wind will cause the radio on your roof or the radio on the tower to momentarily flex out of absolute perfect alignment.  

The 5G radios Wicked deploys for high-speed internet are precision aimed. Sleet and ice and heavy snow may sometimes block that precision beam. Normal rain and normal snow will not affect your radio. Wind-driven snow drifts on your roof may also slow or drop the connection.  

You will see speeds on the Wicked network far above 100Mbps and some older or cheap WiFi routers cannot handle the speed delivered by Wicked 5G. If you are on a Wicked 5G plan you should upgrade your WiFi system to an AC mesh system like the Orbi AC3000 RBK 53.

Yes, the latest in whole home WiFi is called Mesh WiFi, check out the Orbi AC3000 RBK53. The Orbi is one of the few WiFI products that can handle the speeds delivered by Wicked 5G.

The Wicked 5G wireless network was designed in 2018 using the best in class and fastest equipment available. Wicked has more FIBER on one tower than some of our competitors have for their entire network. We have massive Tier One fiber optic backhaul. Our 5G radios are best in class. Wicked does NOT over subscribe like most other providers. We also connect to data centers with premium peering for Netflix and Amazon and Facebook so you are fed movie streams from Salt Lake City with super low latency. Everything about the Wicked network is designed for a premium experience and 4K streaming and gaming.

Wicked was founded to deliver fiber fast wireless internet to home businesses in Park City. Prior to Wicked, there were limited choices for fast wireless internet. Fed up with the slow wireless options in Park City, the founder decided to fund a new wireless company driven by one goal, to have the absolute best and fastest wireless internet with the biggest bandwidth per user in Park City. This goal was met! Home business owners and Park City families have never had wireless internet so fast!

This is a scam that other providers use to trick their oversubscribed customers. They prioritize all the speed test websites and whenever any of those websites are accessed that page has top priority on the network and is instantly served at faster speeds. Wicked does not oversubscribe like other providers. Our speeds are 100% honest every time. Look at how fast Netflix boots. 

Wireless internet uses radios and radios are slightly impacted by heavy rain and greatly impacted by trees and leaves. If you notice slower connection speeds in the summer walk outside and check that there are no trees in front of your antenna. Wicked looks for trees on install day. Also, check to see if a tree can lean in front of your antenna in the wind.

Simply unplugging the power cord to your radio and modem once a month for just 1 minute will improve your day to day performance. This easy power cycle resets your radios. Before calling tech support, you should always power cycle your radio and modem, this will fix 90% of tech support calls.

There are many moving parts in the internet chain between you and the server that is PROVIDING the content you requested. Although YOUR connection speed in Park City is Wicked FAST, it is possible that the server you are accessing on the "Other End" may be overloaded or the internet connection on the "Other End" may be slow. If Netflix is fast, and the unbranded stream is slow, then the problem is not you, it is at the other end. You will find slow video from overloaded servers. Wicked uses peering for Netflix so you connect to Netflix in Salt Lake City instead of Los Gatos California, home of Netflix. Some third party or most illegal content is hosted in a bedroom closets in Russia or China, and there is your problem.

Peering is a trade term that simply means local hosting in local data centers for high demand products like Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, etc. Instead of everyone connecting to just one Netflix server, Netflix places hundred of servers all over the world so customers enjoy faster downloads at closest data center. Wicked Fast made sure to partner with a Tier One fiber provider that has peering on site, and this saves you time and gives you a better experience. Wicked is spending money to provide the fastest connection in Park City and we are spending money to make sure your experience is as high as possible.

That is funny - Wicked was founded because of the failures of the other wireless providers in Park City. We built a faster network for selfish reasons, we wanted faster, better internet for us. Wicked is the fastest wireless product in town with more available gig fiber per customer than any other provider. We give you what you pay for. If you want slow cheap, over subscribed internet stay where you are, if you want excellent fast internet with full throttle and no cap and no over subscriptions and local premium customer support, you have only one choice, welcome to Wicked! If the other providers in Park City did a better job, Wicked would have never been forced to enter the market. With Wicked you get the Best product. Wicked has a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, try us for a week and we will prove our superior performance. Talk with your neighbors who are with Wicked - they will sell our product for us. 

YES, we do NOT have preferred vendors, every connection is connected at full speed. BUT, what you are accessing on the other end may be on a throttled server that delivers at reduced speeds. See our Net Neutral statement at the link at the bottom of any page.

YES - you want your WiFi in an open area away from electrical devices like microwaves and appliances with high-speed motors (blenders). In larger homes, it is suggested to have more than 1 router. Just google "Whole Home Mesh Wifi Routers" for more info. The Orbi AC300 RBK53 is a top rated winner. 

No, but if you do need a home phone look at OOMA, which connects directly to your WiFi. 

Any browser that is ethernet rated will work, Apple Safari, Linux, Chrome, Windows, Mac. TOR is not supported. 

YES - VPN will slightly slow the connection but WICKED is so fast you will probably not notice that you are on a VPN line. IP VANISH is a top rated VPN, but there are many, review and pick the one that best fits your needs. Our NOC will work with your IT dept to connect HIPPA VPN.

NO, Wicked is 100% driven by quality processes and our mounts are better than the cheaper mounts used by our competitors - we will add a new mount and will add cat6 cable too.  

With Wicked Fast 5G Internet the slowest part of your internet experience may be the site you are trying to access, especially if it is on a slow or overloaded server. Live sports can sometimes get overloaded and so can relational database sites (built on the fly), like live news sites. At the ultra-fast speeds that Wicked connects you to the internet, another choke point may be your WiFi. Try plugging your laptop directly into the Wicked Router - note only 2 port on the Wicked router is active. Another weak link is using older computers that run at slower speeds. That's right, Wicked may be faster than your computer...

Here is a surprise... over 80% of tech calls are determined to be WiFi related. Fewer than 4% of tech calls are actually Wicked related. If your speed is slow or if you are not connected to the internet please follow the steps outlined on TECH SUPPORT page. Wicked does not configure or service customer owned equipment, including your WiFi, but we can recommend the new Orbi AC3000. Wicked hires third party sub-contractors that are available for network upgrades, the homeowner must work directly with the subcontractor for pricing and payment. 

Cost

Wicked is a premium product - like a gated private golf course - our product is excellent in every measure, and our service is absolutely top rated. Wicked is different in a much better way, and it cost money to be better. Wicked will compete on every single level but price. We have the best product and we know that and after you experience the Wicked experience you will never want to be on an oversubscribed $49 plan again. Wicked does not price match, but we do provide free internet to kids who qualify for our Kids Without Internet program. 

NO - Your rate is the same as noted on the price plan, plus any options, plus tax and federal fees.  

No way, everything is automatic. Everything is autopay at the beginning of each billing cycle using your credit card on file. We use a third party processor so we never keep your financial info.

Yes - we have several portable 5G tripods for events. Please reach out to us for a site review. Great for movie sets, wedding parties, bike races, concerts, Sundance private rooms, etc.  

No way, in fact, we will turn off your radio if we suspect you doing this. The agreement is for private single home use and small business use only. Each plan is unlimited, but excessive users with indications of redistributing or hosting will be reviewed and disconnected without notice. Enterprise agreements are available for businesses, hotels, and open spaces.

Yes - there is a $6.95 per month charge for dedicated static PRIVATE IP4. This is popular with second homes users as it makes viewing home cameras very easy as well as setting up a VPN.

Yes - Changing speeds only requires a phone call or an email and takes only seconds to change. We also suggest that second homeowners subscribe to our Wifi Modem Power Supply box at $9.99 per month for remote reboots etc.