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7NEWS
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Level up your internet with these top gaming NBN plans
Gaming is serious business, whether you're into competitive gaming or just really proud of what you've built in The Sims. Either way it's imperative to have a reliable and fast internet connection to keep gameplay smooth and seamless while accommodating for uninterrupted and speedy game downloads. If you're unhappy with your current internet service provider, we've compiled our top picks for the best NBN plans for gamers based on price, speed, performance and outages. Best gamer NBN plans: Price Even in 2025, it is possible to get a speedy yet stable NBN plan on the NBN 100 speed tier for $100 per month or less. Aussie Broadband, Buddy Telco, Exetel, iiNet, SpinTel, Superloop, Swoop, Telstra, and TPG all offer plans that trade the 'bells and whistles' for quality service at an affordable price. Here are their plans across the NBN 100/20 speed tier: And here are some more plans across the NBN 100/40 speed tier: For those willing to spend a little more — between $80 to $129 per month — an NBN 250 or NBN 1000 plan is a great choice for a super fast connection. Keep in mind, however, that NBN 250 and NBN 1000 speed tiers are only accessible to those with an HFC or FTTP connection. Below are a selection of NBN 250 plans, sorted by lowest price first: After an NBN 1000 plan? Here's a wide range of plans from various providers, also sorted by lowest price first: Best gamer NBN plans: Speed Usually a faster plan means pay through the nose for it. However we've identified a few super NBN plans that won't break the bank and will keep up with increasingly growing game download sizes. As an example, an NBN plan with a 1000Mbps connection would take just over an hour to download a 50GB game. If you're lucky enough to have a HFC or an FTTP connection with an NBN 1000 plan, this could take just several minutes to complete. Despite the many factors that may affect NBN speeds — typical evening speeds, others using the connection simultaneously, connection type, hardware — here are our top NBN plan recommendations that offer the fastest typical evening speeds, divided into speed tier and sorted by speed. Here are our top NBN 100/20 plans based on speed: And these are the fastest NBN 100/40 options currently in our database: For NBN 250 users, these plans will get you some of the fastest speeds: And for our big spenders looking for the absolute fastest NBN plan, these NBN 100 plans should offer plenty of speed for your needs: Best gamer NBN plans: Outages While internet outages are an unfortunate part of life, there are some providers who fare better than others. To identify which providers these are, the ACCC provides a quarterly report that tracks any outage lasting over 30 seconds across 11 internet providers. In its latest report dated March 2025 across over 1,000 participants, the ACCC identified the top six providers that have at least 60% or more households that experienced 0 outages. These were iiNet (67.5%), Telstra (62.5%), Leaptel (62%), Aussie Broadband (61.5%), Optus (61.1%) and Superloop (60.2%). Here's a selection of NBN 100 plans from the providers mentioned above, sorted from lowest price first:
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Thousands hit by major internet outage
Thousands of internet users have lost access after a technical issue disrupted TPG's fixed broadband services. 'This issue is affecting broadband services for TPG, Vodafone, iiNet, Internode and Kogan fixed internet customers,' a TPG spokesman said in a statement on Monday. 'Our technical teams have identified the issue and are working to restore services as quickly as possible for all customers. 'We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.' TPG Telecom is an Australian telecommunications company which is home to brands including Vodafone, TPG, iiNet, AAPT, Internode, Lebara and felix. It is the second largest telecommunications company listed on the ASX. More to come
