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VPNs for ad-blocking Every month, our seasoned team of editors and plan experts dig through the mountain of NBN plans in our comparison engine to find the very best in a number of categories. Below you’ll find a short list of our top five picks, but keep scrolling for more of the best NBN plans available. It’s a month-to-month deal too. So if doesn’t work out for you, you’re free to cancel at any time without incurring any additional costs. See how it compares against some more popular NBN plans from WhistleOut’s comparison engine below. Normally priced at $59.90 a month, new sign-ups pay a reduced $44.90 monthly fee in the first six months for the Tangerine Standard Speed Unlimited plan. If you wanted to go even cheaper, you could sacrifice another 10Mbps for Spintel’s Unlimited Entry plan, but that would bring you down to a rather slow 15Mbps. Exetel NBN is a provider that has topped a lot of key categories for ACCC-monitored providers. This means you can expect fast download speeds (up to 100Mbps), while paying a great discounted monthly fee for the first six months before it reverts to typical pricing. Exetel also has great upload speeds and low latency (according to ACCC data), and we like that eligible homes can take advantage of up to five free speed boosts each month. To see how Exetel’s Fast NBN plan stacks up, check out more of the fastest NBN plans below (according to self-reported typical evening speeds). Despite being our top pick for NBN 12, it’s still a tough sell over our top pick for cheap NBN 25. You will, after, all only save yourself 99c per month when all is said and done. With that said, Aussie Broadband’s award-winning customer service is worth forking out for, and this is the cheapest you’ll find it. Looking for the very cheapest NBN plans available? Here are a few of cheapest fixed-line deals available in our engine: We’ve jumped between Exetel and MyRepublic for this category (two ACCC-tracked providers), but we’re sticking with the Exetel Power Home 100/40 plan. Compared to the MyRepublic Premium Plan, the Exetel winner has faster downloads (100Mbps vs 93Mbps) and faster upload speeds (35.4Mbps vs 34.2Mbps, according to the ACCC.) New Exetel customers pay a reduced fee for the first six months, too. FTTP (Fibre-to-the-Premise) is a full fibre connection that lets you order plan speeds above NBN 100, plus you can safely expect to hit a provider’s self-reported typical evening download speeds without any disclaimers. If you fancy signing up for an NBN 250 or NBN 1000 plan, then follow the link below to find out more about upgrading to FTTP. We’re recommending an NBN 50 plan from Superloop as our winner, though you can expect great latency from all available Superloop plans based on the ACCC resultes. In terms of plan specifics, the Superloop NBN Home Standard plan comes with 48Mbps download speeds, 8.5ms latency, and around 17.3Mbps upload speeds. Superloop also offers discounted pricing for the first six months to new customers. When looking at the latest ACCC data, we attribute three points to a category winner, two points to a runner-up and one point for the bronze medallist. Tallying everything gives an idea of the highest-scoring NBN providers tracked by the ACCC each quarter. Exetel maintained a commanding lead for the ACCC’s August 2022 results, followed by Telstra in second place and Optus in third. Impressively, Exetel took out the top spot for fastest average download speeds (busy hours and busiest hour) and upload speeds as well as fewest daily outages, with silver medals for webpage loading times and latency. Speaking of ongoing value, you can save money initially by opting for an NBN provider that has promotional pricing (the trend is for reduced costs for the first six months). To keep costs low, consider using your existing NBN-compatible router or modem-router when shifting to a new provider. Alternatively, plans from providers like Telstra and Optus include a modem (albeit with potential hardware exit fees), while other NBN providers let you purchase networking equipment separately as needed. Apart from ongoing costs, the main comparison is between NBN providers’ respective self-reported typical evening download speeds. The faster the download speed, the speedier your connection. Upload speeds tend to be a secondary consideration, but for those interested in faster upload speeds, consider an NBN 100/40 plan from select providers. Alternatively, if your home is eligible, weigh up an NBN 1000 plan for upload speeds up to 50Mbps. The cheapest NBN providers are consistently Spintel and Tangerine. That will change from time to time, as deals and plan pricings change but more often than not, Spintel and Tangerine will have the cheapest fixed-line NBN plans available. The question isn’t whether 25Mbps is fast enough to stream Netflix, it is. The question is how many other NBN-connected devices and activities are running while you’re trying to watch Netflix? If you live alone, you should have no problem streaming Netflix in 4K on NBN 25 but add even one more person to the equation and you will start to notice streaming issues if both people are using the internet at the same time. It’s even worse for bigger families and households. The more people connected to one home NBN connection, the slow each of their speeds will become on NBN 25. In short, NBN 25 is definitely fast enough to stream Netflix in every quality but the more people under your roof, the higher your speed should be to accommodate everyone’s internet usage.
