Community Fibre brings Wi-Fi 7 routers to 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps broadband

Community Fibre is upgrading the top end of its full fibre broadband range by including a new Wi-Fi 7 router with its 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps packages, plus a limited-time Xbox voucher incentive for new 2.5Gbps customers. The move is aimed at London households that want multi-gigabit speeds and in-home Wi-Fi hardware that can keep up.

New Wi-Fi 7 router on multi-gigabit plans

Community Fibre has confirmed that new customers who choose its 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps residential packages will now receive a Wi-Fi 7 router as standard. These are the fastest plans in the provider’s range and both use its 100% fibre-to-the-premises network, with download and upload speeds equal to each other.

Until now, most UK home broadband packages, even at gigabit speeds, have shipped with Wi-Fi 5 or Wi-Fi 6 routers. By moving its top plans straight to Wi-Fi 7, Community Fibre is trying to make sure that the bottleneck in a multi-gigabit home is more likely to be the user’s devices, not the router in the hallway.

The upgrade is available only on the 2.5Gbps Full Fibre Broadband package and the 5Gbps Premium WiFi plan, so customers on lower speed options will continue to get Community Fibre’s existing Wi-Fi 6 hardware unless the provider announces broader changes later on.

Linksys Wi-Fi 7 hardware details

Community Fibre has not formally named the router model, but the hardware appears to be the Linksys SPNM62CF, a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router rated at BE11000. That means it broadcasts on the 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands and is designed for combined wireless speeds well beyond 1Gbps when several devices are active.

Model name	Linksys SPNM62CF (Wi-Fi 7 router)
Wi-Fi standard	Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be), tri-band BE11000
Frequency bands	2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz
Ethernet ports	2 × 2.5Gbps LAN ports 2 × 10Gbps ports (one port can be used as WAN/LAN)
USB-C ports	1 × USB-C for power 1 × USB-C for charging external devices
Use with Community Fibre	Bundled with 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps full fibre broadband plans (new customers)

On the back, the device offers two 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports and two 10Gbps ports, one of which also acts as the WAN port for the fibre connection. There is a USB-C port for power and a second USB-C port that can be used to charge other devices.

The step up from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7 is mainly about extra bandwidth and efficiency. Wi-Fi 7 can use wider channels and can link multiple bands together at once. For multi-device homes, that means higher potential Wi-Fi speeds, better performance when several connections are busy and lower latency for things like gaming and video calls, especially once more phones, laptops and consoles support Wi-Fi 7.

2.5Gbps and 5Gbps full fibre packages

The new router is tied to Community Fibre’s fastest residential packages:

• A 2.5Gbps Full Fibre Broadband package with symmetrical 2.5Gbps download and upload speeds.
• A 5Gbps Premium WiFi package, again with download and upload speeds equal to each other.

The 2.5Gbps plan is currently listed from £39 per month on a 24-month contract, with free installation. The 5Gbps Premium WiFi package costs more, and pricing can vary, so customers need to check the provider’s website for current details.

Both plans come with a fixed £2 price rise each April during the contract, rather than a percentage increase linked to inflation. That still means the monthly bill goes up, but the rise is predictable and set in pounds instead of a variable percentage.

At these speeds, most individual activities barely touch the available bandwidth. The benefit is that many things can happen at once without congestion: multiple 4K streams, cloud gaming sessions, large file transfers and video calls can all run together with plenty of additional bandwidth in reserve.

Xbox voucher and contract incentives

To encourage sign-ups to the faster plans, Community Fibre has added a £50 Xbox voucher to its 2.5Gbps offers on 24-month terms. The promotion applies to new customers who sign up before midnight on 22 December 2025.

The voucher comes on top of free installation, so the up-front cost is limited to the first month’s bill. As with similar broadband promotions, the gift is usually provided after the service has gone live and the customer has cleared a minimum period, although the exact process is not fully detailed in the announcement and buyers should check the offer terms.

Reward cards and digital vouchers have become a standard way for UK providers to make faster packages more attractive, especially as headline monthly prices creep up. In this case, Community Fibre is using the Xbox brand, which will appeal directly to gamers who are more likely to care about latency and fast downloads. You can check the latest Community Fibre broadband deals in your area here.

Community Fibre’s full fibre network and backing

Community Fibre has grown into one of the largest alternative networks in London. The company says its full fibre network now passes about 1.34 million homes, with access also available to roughly 185,000 business premises that fall within reach of its ducts and cables.

The provider has invested close to £1bn in this build so far, funded by a mix of equity and debt from infrastructure investors and banks. Shareholders include Warburg Pincus, DTCP, Railpen and NDIF, while lenders such as JP Morgan and Barclays have supported the roll-out.

Unlike some providers that still rely on part-copper connections, Community Fibre only offers fibre-to-the-premises links. Every residential service on the network comes with symmetrical speeds, so upload performance is the same as download performance, which helps with cloud backups, large file transfers and creative workloads such as video editing from home.

Wi-Fi 7 and multi-gig broadband in the UK

Wi-Fi 7 is still at a very early stage in the UK broadband market. Most routers supplied with home internet plans are still Wi-Fi 5 or Wi-Fi 6, with only a handful of premium devices offering Wi-Fi 6E. That means Community Fibre’s move to bundle Wi-Fi 7 on its multi-gigabit plans is still unusual.

Elsewhere, Sky has launched 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps Full Fibre Gigafast+ plans over the CityFibre network and has begun bundling a Wi-Fi 7-ready hub with those packages. CityFibre itself has upgraded much of its underlying network to XGS-PON technology, allowing multi-gigabit wholesale products that partner ISPs can resell to customers across the country.

These developments show where the top end of the market is heading: multi-gigabit download and upload speeds combined with Wi-Fi hardware that can actually push that bandwidth into phones, laptops, consoles and smart TVs. For now, it is still a niche, but each new Wi-Fi 7 router supplied by an ISP pushes things a little further along.

Who these faster plans are for

For most homes, Community Fibre’s mid-range packages in the 150Mbps to 1Gbps range will be more than enough for streaming, browsing and everyday home working. Upgrading to 2.5Gbps or even 5Gbps, and taking a Wi-Fi 7 router, is mainly about extra capacity and future-proofing.

These plans are best suited to heavy users:

• Larger households with many devices connected at once.
• People who move large files to and from the cloud, such as designers, developers and video editors.
• Gamers who download very large titles and care about low latency.
• Early adopters who already own, or plan to buy, Wi-Fi 7-capable devices.

Before upgrading, it is worth checking whether your current devices can use Wi-Fi 7, how many people actually need multi-gigabit speeds at the same time and whether the extra monthly cost over a 24-month contract is justified for your household.

Even if you are not ready for 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps today, the arrival of Wi-Fi 7 routers in standard ISP packages is a useful signal. It shows that multi-gigabit broadband in the UK is moving from early technical trials into something closer to a mainstream option in areas where full fibre networks like Community Fibre and CityFibre are now well established.