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You 200
Great for everyday browsing, streaming and video calls. Perfect for smaller households or light users.
You 1000
Our most popular plan. Perfect for streaming, gaming, and working from home.
You 2000
For power users juggling 4K streams, big uploads, and smart homes.
You 8000
Our fastest plan. Built for power users, serious gamers, and homes that want maximum headroom.
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Wired vs. wireless speeds
Your plan speed is what reaches your router. What you experience depends on how your devices connect to it.
Wired (Ethernet)
Direct cable connection
- Full plan speed delivered directly to your device
- Consistent, stable connection — no interference
- Lowest latency, ideal for gaming and video calls
- Unaffected by walls, distance or other devices
Wireless (Wi-Fi)
Over-the-air connection
- Speed reduces with distance from the router
- Walls, floors and appliances cause interference
- Shared bandwidth when many devices are connected
- Wi-Fi 7 routers significantly closes the gap
Our recommendation
Use a wired connection for TVs, games consoles and desktop computers. For phones and laptops, a Wi-Fi 7 router placed centrally in your home will deliver the best wireless performance from your YouFibre plan.
Your device matters too
Even on our fastest plan, older devices have a built-in speed ceiling set by their Wi-Fi chip — a limit no broadband upgrade can overcome.
Laptops
Pre-2019 models likely Wi-Fi 5 or older
Phones
Budget Android phones often cap at Wi-Fi 5
Smart TVs
Older models may top out at 150 Mbps wirelessly
Games consoles
PS5 & Xbox Series X support Wi-Fi 6 — older don’t
Not getting the speeds you expect?
Check your device's Wi-Fi generation before assuming the issue is with your broadband. Plugging in via ethernet is the quickest way to confirm whether the device is the bottleneck.
Why wired and wireless aren’t the same
When you sign up for a broadband plan, the speed on the label — for example 1000 Mbps — is what your connection can deliver over a wired (Ethernet) cable straight from your router. It's the max speed of your plan. Wi-Fi is a different story, and here's why.
Multiple devices
Every device on your Wi-Fi is talking to the router at the same time, taking turns, sharing space. A wired connection gets its own dedicated line with no sharing involved.
Distance & walls
Wi-Fi signal weakens the further it travels and the more it has to pass through floors, walls, and furniture. The bigger the home or the thicker the walls, the harder Wi-Fi finds it to reach you.
Interference
Neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, microwaves, baby monitors, and Bluetooth devices all compete for the same airwaves, creating noise that slows things down.
Wireless housekeeping
Wireless standards need extra data just to manage the connection itself — checking signal quality, coordinating devices and correcting errors can eat into your usable speed.
Device capability
Your router might support the very latest Wi-Fi standard, but your speed is capped by whatever your phone, laptop, or smart TV can handle. Often, devices are not capable of handling the highest speeds.
The upshot
Wired speed is close to the number on your plan and is the ceiling of your speed. Wireless speed is a real-world estimate — usually somewhere between 40–80% of your plan speed, depending on your router, devices, and home layout.
Check your device’s Wi-Fi capability
See the speed you are likely to actually experience over Wi-Fi, not the manufacturer’s theoretical ceiling. The figures assume a typical UK home, with the router a room or two away.
These are estimates, not guarantees. Real Wi-Fi speeds depend on the router, how busy the airwaves are, what the walls are made of, how many devices are connected and how far away you are. A cable always beats Wi-Fi on the same plan. Wi-Fi standards are referenced to the Wi-Fi Alliance.
The simple analogy
Internet PlanLarge water pipe (capable of delivering a lot of water)
Wi-FiSprinkler (spreads water but limited by distance, pressure and environment)
Wired EthernetDirect tap connection (gets the full flow)
To get the full 2,000 Mbps you need:
- A compatible device with a 2.5 Gbps or faster network adapter
- A compatible device Ethernet port (2.5 Gbps or faster)
- A direct wired connection to the router or network equipment
Internet providers guarantee speed to the router. Wi-Fi performance depends on the wireless environment and the device being used.
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