Home Wi-Fi News: June 2026

A quieter fortnight for new hardware, but a useful one for anyone trying to work out whether their slow connection is the line or the Wi-Fi. A big speed-test study landed, two more full fibre networks opened up in fresh areas, and one provider made a Wi-Fi 7 router standard. Here is what happened between 11 and 25 June, and what each item means for your home.

A speed study says 18% of UK homes fall below 10Mbps, but read the small print

Broadband Genie crunched 144,067 web speed tests and reported that 18% of UK households came in below the 10Mbps download and 1Mbps upload mark that counts as the legal minimum. The number sounds alarming, but the people running the study were the first to flag its limits: a browser speed test is shaped by slow Wi-Fi, the device you test on, local congestion and which package you actually pay for, so a poor result often means the wireless side is choking, not that your line is broken. That is exactly the trap this site keeps pointing at. Before you assume your provider is short-changing you, test over a wired connection and compare, as explained in why is my Wi-Fi so slow. Source: ISPreview.

MTH Networks goes live on Trooli’s full fibre, with bring-your-own-router allowed

From 24 June, MTH Networks began selling full fibre over Trooli’s network, which now passes more than 480,000 homes across the South East, South West, East Anglia and parts of Scotland. Speeds run symmetrically from 500Mbps to 2.5Gbps, and customers can use the supplied router or bring their own. That last point matters: if you have already bought a good mesh system, a provider that lets you keep it saves you fighting a locked-down free hub. If you are weighing a mesh kit either way, our best mesh Wi-Fi systems for UK homes guide covers the current picks. Source: ISPreview.

ITS Tech extends full fibre into 13 more towns and cities

ITS Technology Group is building out its full fibre network into 13 new areas across England, Scotland and Wales, with Coventry, Huddersfield and Loughborough first up in late June and the rest, including Aberdeen, Bath, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Plymouth, Southampton and Swansea, following through to October. It is a business-focused network, but every altnet that reaches a new town adds a real alternative to the big providers there, which over time tends to push prices down. Worth a postcode check if you are in one of those areas. Source: ISPreview.

Brillband makes a Wi-Fi 7 router standard on its own network from 1 July

Brillband, the retail arm backed by the same group as AllPoints Fibre, opens ordering on its parent network from 1 July, with a 900Mbps full fibre line at £25 a month, no mid-contract price hikes, and a Wi-Fi 7 router included as standard for every new customer. The network stitches together the former Jurassic Fibre, Giganet and Swish Fibre footprints across the south, south west and Yorkshire, around 500,000 properties. The wider trend is the one that helps most households: the free hub keeps getting better, so the box your provider hands you is increasingly worth keeping. If yours still leaves dead zones, the steps in how to fix Wi-Fi dead spots apply whatever badge is on it. Source: ISPreview.