15 providers offer 186 broadband deals in Royston, from £20 a month (£40 after 12 months) and up to 1,600 Mbps. Typical measured speed is 72 Mbps down and 17 Mbps up, 29% below the UK download average. Full fibre is available to 90.5% of homes.
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Best value broadband deal in Royston
The best value in Royston on full first-year cost is 4th Utility's 900Mb Full Fibre (24 Months): £264 across year one, about £22 a month. At 900 Mbps it copes with anything a household runs at once.
Best value in Royston
£22/mo
for 12 months, then £44/mo
Cheapest broadband deal in Royston
The cheapest deal in Royston is 300Mb Full Fibre (24 Months) from 4th Utility at £20.00 a month for 300 Mbps. It's full fibre, so the advertised speed is the speed that reaches the router. The £20.00 is an intro price that rises to £40.00 a month after the intro window, making the real first-year cost £240. Virgin Media O2 is essentially level at £20.32 a month.
Cheapest in Royston
£20/mo
for 12 months, then £40/mo
Runner-up on price
£18.99/mo
rises to £22.99 in April 2027 (+£4)
Fastest broadband deal in Royston
The fastest deal available in Royston is Full Fibre 1.6GB from EE at 1,600 Mbps. Zen Internet matches it at the same top speed.
Fastest in Royston
£33.99/mo
rises to £37.99 in March 2027 (+£4)
Runner-up on speed
£45/mo
No rises, no surprises.
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£22.99/mo
rises to £26.99 in March 2027 (+£4)
£23/mo
No rises, no surprises.
£23.99/mo
rises to £27.99 in March 2027 (+£4)
£18.99/mo
rises to £22.99 in April 2027 (+£4)
Broadband providers in Royston
15 providers serve Royston including Virgin Media, Sky and BT, with EE the fastest at 1,600 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 Royston download speed at 72 Mbps.
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Room to upgrade in Royston
Only 12% of the 3,200 connections here are on 300Mbps or faster, even though 88% 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 Royston line runs 72 Mbps.
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OKWhat speeds are people actually getting?
Gigabit reaches 88% of Royston, and the fastest available is 1,000 Mbps. The full split by band is below.
What broadband coverage does Royston have?
Superfast broadband reaches 100% of Royston premises but gigabit only 88%, so around 12% of homes can get fast broadband but not the fastest.
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Speed and coverage figures for Roystoncome 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.