RST Fiber began installing the fiber Tuesday that the company says will bring internet speeds up to 100 times faster than cable to Triangle-area homes.

The Shelby-based company plans to offer Internet service to homes at gigabit speeds as well as a la carte TV services and super-high-definition video in the Raleigh area within the next 60 days.

Internet service to homes will be priced at $99 a month.

Dan Holt, in Wake Forest, is a test user.

“I basically got tired of buffering videos and slow uploads,” he said.

Raleigh will be one of its first service areas, following deployment over the next month in south Charlotte.

Asheville will receive service about the same time as Raleigh, according to RST Fiber co-founder and CEO Dan Limerick.

Some ares of the Triangle outside of Raleigh also will be linked to the RST network, but Limerick did not specify locations.

RST wants to be the first to market with the gigabit service, beating Google Fiber and the North Carolina Next Generation Network, both of whom are working on similar plans.

The Next Generation Network group has recommended that municipalities that are part of the consortium (Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Winston-Salem) endorse a plan offered by AT&T. N.C. State, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University are part of the consortium.