YouFibre broadband review 2025: Is it any good?
Dan Howdle • September 19th, 2025
YouFibre is one of the newest names on the Full Fibre broadband block and also, possibly, the fastest broadband in the country with packages up to a totally beyond ludicrous 7Gbps! (7,000Mbps). So can it be trusted, and is it a breath of fresh air in the overcrowded broadband market or just another 'almost' contender? Let's find out.
Our review of YouFibre broadband
YouFibre specialises exclusively in pure fibre connections for the home in select areas across the UK, provided in association with its partner company and network operator, Netomnia. It offers speeds of up to 7Gbps (so fast it actually creates its own headaches for end users wanting to make the most out of that, but we'll get to that in a bit). So what does YouFibre have to offer when it comes to broadband packages?
Reasons to buy
- Up to 7Gbps broadband
- Choice of contract length
- Optional mesh wifi
- Now with Wi-Fi 7 router
Reasons to avoid
- Limited availability
- No TV option
YouFibre offers Full Fibre broadband, with a choice of speeds, namely 150Mbps, 500Mbps, 900Mbps, 1800Mbps, and 7000Mbps. So, speeds from sensible all the way up to absolutely bonkers.
YouFibre also lets you choose whether to commit to an 18-month contract or just sign up for a one-month rolling contract. However, you'll pay a lot more each month on a one-month contract, which covers the risk on the part of YouFibre that you'll pull out of the service at a whim.
To ensure you get the best possible signal and speed around your home, YouFibre offers customers the option to bolt on its mesh system. The YouMesh system will place repeaters throughout your home, and of for speeds between 150Mbps and 900Mbps. It costs an additional £8 per month at the time of writing. Very reasonable. Then there's the YouMesh Pro system for speeds between 1.8Gbps and 7Gbps. That'll provide the additional speed you need to make use of at least some of that horsepower in the further reaches of your home. It costs £7 per month for up to 900Mbps packages, or £15 per month for faster speeds, but to be honest if you're subscribing to broadband this fast, you're already going to be paying a lot for the privilege and are likely to be less price sensitive than the average user.
The main negative of YouFibre is the lack of widespread availability. At the time of writing, the service is available in select towns and cities across the UK, but not across the whole country like the big, mainstream providers.
At the time of writing these are: East Kilbride, Hamilton, Irvine, Falkirk, Coatbridge, Kilmarnock, and Livingston in Scotland; Durham, Stockton, Peterlee, Spennymoor, Darlington, Houghton, and Derry (Londonderry) in the North East; Liverpool, Carlisle, Dalton-in-Furness, Barrow, Bamber Bridge, Oldham, Lancaster, Horwich, and Macclesfield in the North West; Pontefract and Wakefield in Yorkshire; Grantham, Mansfield, Boston, Spalding, and Sutton-in-Ashfield in the East Midlands; King’s Lynn, Wisbech, Purfleet, St Neots, Doddington, Bedford, and Huntingdon in East Anglia; Barry, Bridgend, Morriston, Neath, and Newport in Wales; Trowbridge, Frome, Stroud, Cheltenham, and Downend in the South West; and Gravesend, Guildford, Maidstone, Canterbury, Ashford, Oxford, Aylesbury, Dover, Folkestone, and Tunbridge Wells in the South East; Wednesbury in the West Midlands.
As YouFibre is purely a broadband provider there is no option for a TV service, which may disappoint some customers. However, with a fast and reliable fibre broadband service, customers can watch TV online or via apps, using a streaming stick such as a Roku or Amazon Firestick. Or you can just add a Sky Stream subscription since Sky offers TV on its own.
The fact that YouFibre is a relative newcomer to the broadband market, having started operations in 2019, means it lacks the brand familiarity of a company like BT. However, looking at the latest reviews from its customers, we would suggest that its 'newness' is not a cause for concern.
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Overview
Here’s a quick summary of what speeds are on offer from YouFibre broadband, along with other key details.
| Download speeds | 150Mbps–7Gbps |
|---|---|
| Upload speeds | 150Mbps–7Gbps |
| Broadband | Full fibre |
| Home phone | Optional |
| Freebies to look for | Free broadband |
| Packages available | Broadband only, broadband and phone |
| Router | YouFibre Wi-Fi 7 Hub and YouFibre Wi-Fi 7 Hub Pro |
| Contract length | 1 month, 18 months |
| Prices from | £23.99 per month |
Broadband speeds
For the average home, a broadband speed of 100-300Mbps+ is plenty. This will enable you to keep several devices connected at once and stream video in HD (or 4K) if you wish. However, everyone’s home is different, and you may find that you need more or less speed depending on how you use your internet connection. Also, the more devices you have (from doorbells and fridges to TVs and tablets) that require an internet connection, the more download speed you will need.
Upload speeds
For most people, upload speeds are not a priority, since it is download speed that dictates how easily you can stream music and video, and how quickly you can load webpages. This is why broadband providers tend not to openly advertise their upload speeds much of the time, focusing instead on promoting the download speed.
The majority of broadband providers offer accompanying upload speeds that are only a fraction as fast as the download speed. For example, a 65Mbps connection with BT will have an upload speed of around 20Mbps. This is where YouFibre is different, because all its upload speeds are the same as its download speeds. This is known as having 'symmetrical' speeds. So YouFibre 150 will have a 150Mbps download speed and a 150Mbps upload speed. The same applies to all YouFibre’s speeds.
Most people won’t be too bothered by this, but if you're a gamer, or you upload a lot of large files to the internet regularly, or you use video calling a lot, you will appreciate the difference. Zoom and FaceTime calls will be sharp and gameplay will be free from lag and delay.
If you aren’t sure which speed to choose, you can check our guide which will help you work out which broadband speed you need for your household.
M125 Fibre Broadband
Fixed price until March 2026 billUp to £200 switching credit
132Mb
Average speed
No phone line
24
Month contract
Zero upfront cost
£22.99 Per month
Effective monthly cost is calculated by adding up all the monthly costs, price rises and any discounts and dividing it by the contract length.
£100 bill credit, meaning no charge for the first three months, then just over £6 for month four. Also, Virgin Media are offering a switching credit up to £200. The Virgin Media bill credit will be applied to your first bill. Any remaining balance will be applied to subsequent bills until the credit is used. Switching credit offer ends 10/12/2025. Claim within 60 days of activation.
M500 Fibre Broadband
Fixed price until March 2026 bill
516Mb
Average speed
No phone line
24
Month contract
Zero upfront cost
£26.99 Per month
Effective monthly cost is calculated by adding up all the monthly costs, price rises and any discounts and dividing it by the contract length.
£100 bill credit, meaning no charge for the first three months, then less that £11 for month four. Also, Virgin Media are offering a switching credit up to £200. The Virgin Media bill credit will be applied to your first bill. Any remaining balance will be applied to subsequent bills until the credit is used. Switching credit offer ends 10/12/2025. Claim within 60 days of activation.
Gig1 Fibre Broadband
Fixed price until March 2026 bill
1.1Gb
Average speed
No phone line
24
Month contract
Zero upfront cost
£29.99 Per month
Effective monthly cost is calculated by adding up all the monthly costs, price rises and any discounts and dividing it by the contract length.
£120 bill credit, meaning no charge for the first month, and a reduction on month two. Also, Virgin Media are offering a switching credit up to £200. The Virgin Media bill credit will be applied to your first bill. Any remaining balance will be applied to subsequent bills until the credit is used. Switching credit offer ends 10/12/2025. Claim within 60 days of activation.
Packages
Being a purely broadband-focussed business, YouFibre does not offer a TV service of any kind with its fibre deals, but customers can choose to add on a phone service. As there is no landline required for a YouFibre connection, instead customers can choose to pay for a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service, whereby audio calls are connected over your internet connection, just like WhatsApp.
At the time of writing, YouPhone costs £3 per month for unlimited weekend and evening calls to landlines, or (YouPhone Plus) £8 per month for unlimited anytime calls to UK landlines, or (YouPhone Pro) £12 per month for unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles, anytime. You can choose to keep your existing phone number if you wish.
YouFibre offers a good choice of broadband speeds that will suit any household, from a regular 150Mbps to the absurdly fast 7Gbps, although this top speed is only available on request. Here is a rundown of the different speeds offered by YouFibre and what they can support.
YouFibre 150
YouFibre’s entry-level package offers 150Mbps. A number of other providers also offer a similar download speed, advertised as 145Mbps, including BT, Sky, TalkTalk and EE. A download speed of 150Mbps allows your online experience to be much faster and much smoother, and in medium households, allows the option to stream in UHD without slowing the connectivity of everyone else’s devices.
YouFibre 500
A 500Mbps speeds things up a lot, enabling several UHD streams to run at once (should you wish), as well as comfortably supporting numerous devices. A 30GB file will download in about eight minutes, compared to 26 minutes on a 150Mbps connection, to give you an idea of the increase in speed. The accompanying upload speed of 500Mbps will mean that video calling is smooth and gaming is glitch-free, and large files, such as high definition videos, will upload quickly without any waiting around at all.
YouFibre 1000
A 900Mbps connection (despite the name this package offers 900Mbps, not 1000) is very fast indeed. Virgin Media was the first widely available broadband provider to offer its Gig1 broadband service, but now a number of other providers are catching up, also offering an average of 900Mbps download speeds. However, they do not come with the symmetric upload speed of 900Mbps, which is where YouFibre and some other altnets have the advantage. A 30GB file will download in just four minutes on a 1Gbps connection, and it offers sufficient bandwidth to stream in UHD on up to 20 devices.
YouFibre 2000
At 1.8Gbps up and down, we're well into the 'ludicrous speed' category of broadband – 'plaid', if you will, for those who get references to classic Mel Brookes comedies. There's nothing you can't do with 2Gbps, but also very little you 'can' do with it when it comes to making use of all that speed.
YouFibre 8000
YouFibre 7Gbps (not 8Gbps as suggested) is the top speed available. It is hard to imagine any domestic property that would require a 7Gbps download speed, not least because you'll need devices with ports that can accept a 10Gbps cable. 10Gbps ethernet adapters, even on very powerful computers, are still extremely rare. 7Gbps is here for extremely niche cases and we don't recommend it to any household not familiar with everything that is going to be required in order to make use of that sort of speed, which goes far beyond just having the right router.
Routers and installation
YouFibre now supplies its own branded routers with every package. On speeds up to 1Gbps, you’ll get the YouFibre Wi-Fi 7 Hub – a powerful, modern router that can comfortably handle gigabit broadband around a busy household. It’s designed to cope with dozens of devices at once and makes the most of Wi-Fi 7 for faster, more stable connections.
If you sign up for one of YouFibre’s faster packages (2Gbps and above), you’ll be upgraded to the YouFibre Wi-Fi 7 Hub Pro. This is a more advanced bit of kit, built to take advantage of multi-gigabit broadband. While you won’t see the full speed over Wi-Fi, the Pro Hub includes faster wired connections for devices that can support them.
For bigger homes or trickier layouts, YouFibre also offers its YouMesh system – add-on units that extend Wi-Fi to every corner of your house. Standard YouMesh costs £8 per month, while the faster YouMesh Pro option is £15 per month. Both come with a minimum speed guarantee of 10Mbps in every room, or you get your money back.
Installation
Installation usually takes place between three and 14 days once you have put your order in; this depends on the location and the availability of the installation team in your area. If you have limited times when you can be in for the engineer, you can request installation take place on a certain day and time.
Once at your property, the engineer will need to drill a small hole in your property’s wall for a cable that will connect an outer box to an inner box inside your home. The engineer will consult you on this before drilling, and will also advise on the best location for it. Once connected, the engineer will switch on your router and check the connection is live.
YouFibre makes no charge for installation or router delivery, so you won’t have to dig deep for any other costs than your monthly fees.
Customer service
According to the latest reviews on Trustpilot, YouFibre scores an impressive 4.7/5 stars with 90% of customers giving it five stars. This compares favourably against Virgin Media with just two stars and BT with just 1.6/5.
You can get in touch with YouFibre via Live Chat on the website, by sending a message using the online contact form, or by calling 0800 270 0000. Customer service is available Monday to Saturday 8am to 8pm. You can also get in touch via social media, on Facebook or Twitter.
Our verdict: Outstanding
YouFibre is one of a growing number of relatively small, Full Fibre broadband providers now operating in the UK. Although the coverage is limited, the feedback from customers is extremely good. The ultrafast, symmetric speeds are impressive, the customer service appears to be very good and the installation is organised and timely. The prices offer very good value for money and compare very favourably against Virgin Media, BT and the rest for similar speeds.
The lack of a TV service is unlikely to be much of a drawback for most people (especially not since anyone can add Sky Stream to any packages from any provider), and the inclusive Cisco OpenDNS Family Shield security software ensures you can have peace of mind against online attacks. The new Wi-Fi 7 routers are some of the best available for home broadband, and the option to add a mesh system for optimal coverage is a modestly-priced bonus.
We would say that if you're looking for a new broadband provider, and you live in one of the areas covered by YouFibre, it is highly recommended, handily earning our top score.
