19 providers offer 267 broadband deals in Hackney, from £14.75 a month and up to 5,000 Mbps. Typical measured speed is 102 Mbps down and 24 Mbps up, in line with the UK download average.
Best value broadband deal in Hackney
The best value in Hackney on full first-year cost is Plusnet's Full Fibre 145: £292 across year one, about £24 a month. A £155 reward card is bundled in. 145 Mbps covers streaming, video calls and working from home.
Best value in Hackney
£22.99/mo
rises to £26.99 in March 2027 (+£4)
Avg £26.32/mo over contract · £632 total over 24 months
Fastest broadband deal in Hackney
The fastest deal available in Hackney is 5 Gbps Premium Broadband (24m) from Community Fibre at 5,000 Mbps.
Fastest in Hackney
5 Gbps Premium Broadband (24m)
5000 Mbps upload · Full Fibre
Best for power users & big households
£63/mo
rises to £66 in April 2027 (+£3)
Avg £65.25/mo over contract · £1566 total over 24 months
Cheapest broadband deal in Hackney
The cheapest deal in Hackney is 100 Mbps Fibre Broadband (24m) from Community Fibre at £14.00 a month for 100 Mbps. It's full fibre, so the advertised speed is the speed that reaches the router. About level with the UK average.
Cheapest in Hackney
100 Mbps Fibre Broadband (24m)
100 Mbps upload · Full Fibre
Best for 2–3 person homes, 4K streaming
£14/mo
rises to £17 in April 2027 (+£3)
Avg £16.25/mo over contract · £390 total over 24 months
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500 Mbps Fibre Broadband (24m)
500 Mbps upload · Full Fibre
Best for 4–5 person households, heavy use
£16/mo
rises to £19 in April 2027 (+£3)
Avg £18.25/mo over contract · £438 total over 24 months
Full Fibre 1.6GB Premium
115 Mbps upload · Full Fibre
Best for power users & big households
£33.99/mo
rises to £37.99 in March 2027 (+£4)
Avg £37.32/mo over contract · £896 total over 24 months
Sky Full Fibre Gigafast
100 Mbps upload · Full Fibre
Best for power users & big households
£31/mo
No rises, no surprises.
£749 total over 24 months
Onestream Fibre 55
10 Mbps upload · Hybrid Fibre
Best for small homes, single 4K streamer
£19.94/mo
rises to £22.69 in April 2027 (+£2.75)
Avg £22/mo over contract · £528 total over 24 months
Broadband providers in Hackney
19 providers serve Hackney, with Community Fibre the fastest at 5,000 Mbps.
Ranked by Ofcom complaints per 100,000 customers, fewest first. A down arrow is below the industry average, up is above, and a dash means Ofcom publishes no figure for that provider (usually because it is below Ofcom's 1.5% market-share reporting threshold). A small diagonal arrow shows the past-year trend (↘ improving, ↗ getting worse).
Ofcom records the typical Hackney download speed at 102 Mbps.
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Room to upgrade in Hackney
Only 13% of the 73,000 connections here are on 300Mbps or faster, even though 91% can get gigabit.
The faster line is already there. For most of these homes it is the contract holding them back, not the infrastructure.
Is your broadband good enough?
The typical Hackney line runs 102 Mbps.
Working from home
OKStreaming and family use
GoodWhat speeds are people actually getting?
Gigabit reaches 91% of Hackney, and the fastest available is 10,000 Mbps. The full split by band is below.
Which broadband networks reach Hackney?
The wholesale networks carrying Hackney broadband, from Openreach to Virgin Media and the altnets, read off the live deals.
Working altnets in Hackney, listed by what their resellers are actually selling. Each footprint stops and starts a few doors apart, so address-checking matters more than usual.
- CityFibre: Sky, The One Broadband, Vodafone
- 4th Utility: 4th Utility, Rise Fibre
- Community Fibre
- Hyperoptic
Behind the altnets, Openreach and Virgin Media O2 run as the major-network options (Openreach is the country-wide baseline, so it's a given).
Real provider count in Hackney: 19 actively selling into addresses.
What broadband coverage does Hackney have?
Superfast broadband reaches 99% of Hackney premises but gigabit only 91%, so around 8% of homes can get fast broadband but not the fastest.
Can I rely on mobile broadband in Hackney?
Outdoor 5G reaches 100% of Hackney homes. Here is how mobile holds up if the line drops.
5G & 4G home broadband
Outdoor 5G covers 100% of Hackney, enough for a 5G home-broadband hub to stand in for a fixed line.
Broadband speeds by Hackney neighbourhood
Measured speeds range from 163 Mbps in Hoxton to 73 Mbps in Hackney Wick, so your street matters more than the Hackney average.
| Neighbourhood | Median | vs area | Upload | Superfast | Gigabit | 5G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoxton EC2A | 163 | +61 | 48 | 92% | 88% | 100% |
| Clissold N16 | 107 | +6 | 19 | 99% | 95% | 100% |
| London E8 | 99 | -3 | 24 | 99% | 92% | 100% |
| Lea Bridge E5 | 89 | -13 | 19 | 100% | 85% | 100% |
| Hackney Wick E9 | 73 | -29 | 16 | 98% | 83% | 100% |
Measured Ofcom data per Hackney neighbourhood, ranked fastest first. Median and upload are in Mbps; vs area is the median difference from the Hackney average; superfast, gigabit and 5G are the % of premises covered. Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
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* Based on Go.Compare research estimating that 28% of UK broadband users pay for faster broadband speeds than they need (which we interpret as overpaying), equivalent to around 7.5m UK households.
Speed and coverage figures for Hackneycome from Ofcom's Connected Nations data, current to January 2026. Deal prices are pulled live from providers. Compiled by the FindBroadband team. See how we rank and source our data.