The best 1,000Mbps NBN plans offer you the potential to experience the very fastest internet speeds in Australia, with a maximum of 1,000Mbps download speeds theoretically possible.
While no NBN providers currently advertise the full 1,000Mbps speeds on an NBN 1000 plan during the busy evening hours (some don’t even have enough customer data to provide a typical evening speed figure) the majority advertise a minimum speed of 400Mbps — 500Mbps between 7–11pm. Telstra's NBN 1000 plan currently advertises the fastest typical evening speeds at 700Mbps.
If you have the right connection type at your property and you wish to sign up to a 1,000Mbps NBN plan, then no matter the provider you choose, you’re going to be able to experience download speeds like you’ve never had before.
But which NBN 1000 plans are the best? Read on to find out.
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NBN 1000 FAQ
Can I get NBN 1000?
NBN 1000 plans are only available on fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and some hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) connection types. Be sure to check with your provider of choice if you have an HFC connection, to see if you can sign up to an NBN 1000 plan.
How fast is NBN 1000?
As its name implies, NBN 1000 plans can achieve a theoretical maximum download speed of 1000Mbps. We say theoretical, because reaching this maximum speed is pretty tricky. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) publishes average download speed data in its quarterly Broadband Performance report. In the most recent, published in December 2022, the average download speed on HFC connections was 641.3Mbps and 750.9Mbps on FTTP connections.
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How much does NBN 1000 cost?
NBN 1000 plans may have the potential to offer crazy-fast download speeds, but they come at a cost. The cheapest NBN 1000 plan you can currently get starts at AU$99.90p/m, but only for six months, and the typical evening speeds you can expect have yet to be published, making it a potentially risky play.
The current average cost of an NBN 1000 plan is AU$145.40.