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VPNs for ad-blocking Long story short, there are a growing number of solutions to get you connected in the home and while we appreciate a bit of variety, it’s not always as straightforward as it should be. Let’s take a look at the options available to you, and the best plans depending on your connection type. Thankfully, most NBN providers in Australia offer FTTN plans. It’s the baseline technology we use for comparing the best NBN plans every month, so naturally, we’ve got a pretty good grasp on which NBN FTTN plans are worth your dime. For other fixed-line connections—including upgrade to FTTP, Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC), Fibre-to-the-Curb (FTTC) and Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB)—the great news is all of the NBN plans available to FTTN homes are also available to yours. At the time of writing, the best provider for an NBN 50 plan, the most popular option in Australia, was Spintel. Spintel’s plans are all no-contract, and the provider is one of the few still offering home phone and broadband plans. If you want to weigh up Spintel’s offering against close competitors, look at Tangerine, Superloop and MyRepublic. For comparison, take a look at the most popular NBN plans in Australia below. If you do count yourself among the lucky few, then you might be eligible for a Superfast or Ultrafast upgrade. And if you’re keen to dip your toe in the faster-than-NBN-100 waters, try a MyRepublic NBN Superfast plan. Here’s a quick look at the other download speeds you can expect from competing NBN Superfast plans. Superloop has long-running promo pricing for its NBN Ultrafast plan, but despite great 500Mbps download speeds, it’s on a custom NBN 500 speed tier and has a 3TB data cap. We’re not overly fond of data caps, especially at these speeds where it’s easier to download more, so we reckon it’s worth trying the 350Mbps average download speeds with MyRepublic’s NBN Ultrafast plans. MyRepublic tends to offer promo pricing and, even if it doesn’t, the typical monthly price is usually competitive. Note: NBN providers are fairly conservative when it comes to estimates for NBN Ultrafast, which is why you will see some of the plans listed below as 250Mbps (or lower). That’s mostly providers covering themselves. In reality, you’ll probably see speeds much faster than 250Mbps. Spintel has the cheapest monthly pricing for those after a whole lot of Optus 4G network data (500GB), but there’s a $300+ upfront fee to buy the Netgear AC800S mobile-hotspot WiFi modem. Still, our money is on Telstra’s mobile broadband plans, particularly if you don’t mind paying more per month to get more data. To get an idea of how it stacks up, take a look at this week’s most popular mobile broadband plans below. That’s why we think it’s worth looking at Spintel’s 4G plans, which have the potential to reach up to 100Mbps download speeds, plus they include a decent amount of data: Still, Telstra and Optus are both investing a lot in their own 5G home products. Telstra’s 5G home is now out in the wild, but anyone with ample coverage can sign up to Optus 5G home. Despite being one of the more expensive offerings, our pick is Telstra. Here’s what you get: For comparison, check out other popular home wireless plans from the providers in our comparison engine: With satellite internet, there are a lot of unpredictable geographical and environmental factors at play that could impact your speeds and stability. The market for satellite plans is also a little archaic, in that it still divides data allowance by peak and off-peak data, which can make it tough to compare. For example, one plan might claim it delivers 500GB in total, but only 100GB of that data might be usable within daylight hours. During peak times (7:00am to 1:00am), you’ve got peak data to work with, and the rest is allocated as off-peak data (1:00am to 7:00am). Because of this, it’s worth scheduling overnight downloads. If you exceed your monthly allowance, speeds are slowed to symmetrical speeds (think kilobytes-per-second) for the rest of the billing cycle. If you need Sky Muster satellite NBN, we’d recommend reading our best satellite internet plans guide for the technology. It’s also worth considering a Sky Muster Plus plan, which offers unmetered downloads across specific categories as well as download speeds that can reach beyond 25Mbps. Alternatively, if Starlink satellite is available in your area and you don’t balk at the higher monthly fees, it offers significantly faster speed potential. For our money, SkyMesh has a great range of Sky Muster satellite NBN plans, which includes options across NBN 12, NBN 25 and Sky Muster Plus speed tiers. Check out a handful of SkyMesh’s most popular Sky Muster satellite NBN plans below: There’s only one catch: you need to live within 14km of an NBN Fixed Wireless mobile tower to be eligible. If you live in a rural area and find that you’re eligible for Fixed Wireless, you’ll experience much faster speeds, a more reliable connection, and better value plans than you would on satellite internet. Fixed Wireless plans are more comparable to fixed-line broadband plans when it comes to price and inclusions. Spintel is the Fixed Wireless provider we recommend. Whether you’re after an NBN 25 plan or NBN 50 plan, Spintel offers some of the cheapest plans in our comparison engine. Only select fixed-line NBN technologies can sign up to NBN 100 plans and, even then, FTTC, FTTB and FTTN technologies may not be able to hit full advertised download speeds. NBN providers often add a disclaimer that they’ll confirm speeds for these NBN technologies after connection. Meanwhile, all FTTP and select HFC homes can tap into every NBN speed tier, including NBN Superfast and NBN Ultrafast plans. Note that NBN 12 plans are meant for only one person, NBN 25 is built for two, and NBN 50 plans are intended for homes with three or four people. Every faster NBN speed tier is meant for homes with five or more active internet users. Remember that while home wireless internet uses mobile technology to get you online, it can’t travel with you unless you shift to another eligible address. Ultimately, the best home wireless plans will come from the network that provides the best signal to your home: whether that’s Telstra, Optus or Vodafone. If you can get 5G home internet, there are a range of plans with decent prices, some of which include unlimited data and others that have speeds that reach beyond 100Mbps. Otherwise, pick a 4G home internet plan from a provider that uses the network where you get the best signal. Use the interactive map below as a guide. After all, mobile broadband is only as good as your signal strength. It’s also worth weighing up how much data you intend on using, then scaling it up or down proportionately. Certain mobile broadband providers offer generous data caps but may charge extra if you bust those caps, while others slow speeds, which can help control costs. If you want a mobile broadband plan that you don’t mind paying extra for, go with Telstra. Optus and Vodafone have smaller networks (in that order, too), but tend to offer more competitive pricing. Telstra, though, has the widest-reaching network, which includes 4G and 5G.
