Is full fibre worth paying extra for?

For most households, yes — though the price gap has narrowed significantly, and in many cases full fibre is now cheaper than the legacy part-fibre products it's replacing.

The practical difference comes down to reliability as much as speed. Full fibre runs a fibre optic cable directly to your home, rather than fibre to a cabinet and then copper from the cabinet to your door. That last stretch of copper is where most broadband problems occur — slower speeds at peak times, performance that drops with distance from the cabinet, and a higher likelihood of faults.

Full fibre removes that entirely. Speeds are more consistent, the connection is more stable, and upload speeds — which matter more than most people realise for video calls, cloud backup and smart home devices — are substantially better.

The speed headline figures are often overkill for everyday use, but the consistency and reliability improvement is real and noticeable. If full fibre is available at your address at a comparable price to what you're currently paying, there's very little reason not to take it.