Optus Mobile Review ALDI Mobile Review Amaysim Mobile Review Belong Mobile Review Circles.Life Review Vodafone Mobile Review Woolworths Mobile Review Felix Mobile Review Best iPhone Plans Best Family Mobile Plans Best Budget Smartphones Best Prepaid Plans Best SIM-Only Plans Best Plans For Kids And Teens Best Cheap Mobile Plans Telstra vs Optus Mobile Optus NBN Review Belong NBN Review Vodafone NBN Review Superloop NBN Review Aussie BB NBN Review iiNet NBN Review MyRepublic NBN Review TPG NBN Review Best NBN Satellite Plans Best NBN Alternatives Best NBN Providers Best Home Wireless Plans What is a Good NBN Speed? Test NBN Speed How to speed up your internet Optus vs Telstra Broadband ExpressVPN Review CyberGhost VPN Review NordVPN Review PureVPN Review Norton Secure VPN Review IPVanish VPN Review Windscribe VPN Review Hotspot Shield VPN Review Best cheap VPN services Best VPN for streaming Best VPNs for gaming What is a VPN? VPNs for ad-blocking Streaming Netflix in 4K/UHD requires, at a minimum, 25Mbps. For Stan, it’s 15Mbps. Kayo Sports is capped at 1080p HD and only requires a minimum of 7.5Mbps. That said, one of the app’s most unique features offers HD picture-in-picture streaming, which means you multiply 7.5Mbps by the number of pictures you’re streaming. Four, for instance, equates to a 30Mbps requirement. Then there are upload speeds to consider. If you plan on kicking off a lucrative career as a Twitch streamer, you will need, at minimum, 4.5Mbps upload speeds for 1080p HD broadcasting at 30 frames per second (fps) or 6Mbps for 1080p at 60fps. Note that these are minimum download and upload requirements, which means your best bet is to aim to have above the minimum to keep streaming and the like seamless. NBN plans are advertised in terms of typical evening download speeds, which is when most people are online and speeds tend to slow down. As you can see from the speed requirements above, the max 50Mbps download and 20Mbps upload of NBN 50 comfortably meets all of these which, coupled with competitive pricing, helps to make sense of why it’s so popular in Australia. Compare this with other popular NBN 50 plans in the daily updating list below: Spintel’s NBN Unlimited Plus is a consistent winner in our best NBN plans picks, though, in big part because it has the best pricing, regardless of whether it’s promo or the typical ongoing monthly fee. This Spintel winner also matches Tangerine for speed (50Mbps apiece) and beats Superloop’s 48Mbps. For comparison, check out the daily updating list of cheap NBN 50 plans from our database: The percentages displayed in the table below represent how close on average each NBN provider gets to delivering the full speed of its retail NBN plans. The data in this table is accurate as of the date we published this article, but it’s likely to change regularly. It’s also important to note that not every NBN provider’s performance is tracked by the ACCC, including our two top NBN 50 picks from Tangerine and Spintel. Note that the speeds in the table below are based on the max speeds achievable for an NBN 50 plan: 50Mbps download and 20Mbps upload. For the gamers in an NBN 50 home, there won’t be any issue playing games online (even for multiple in-home gamers). Still, downloading a 100GB game will take around 4.5 hours at full speed, which may be a bottleneck. Bear in mind that accessing those full speed means other devices in the home will have to not be downloading at the same time. Similarly, those working from home—particularly those working with large file transfers—may consider the 20Mbps upload limit to be restrictive. This will also impact how long it takes to back up smartphone photos and videos, particularly if everyone is doing it at the same time. Still, we’d comfortably recommend NBN 50 for most homes with average internet needs. If it’s not enough for your home’s internet needs, most Australian homes can sign up to NBN 100 plans, too, which offer up to double the download and upload speed (though most NBN 100 plans have 20Mbps upload limits). With an NBN 100 plan, you’d be able to watch four simultaneous 4K streams or roughly 20 HD streams, and that 100GB game would download in half the time. Check out the daily updating list of plans below to see if a popular list of NBN 100 plans from our database:
