When you’re searching for a new NBN plan, ensuring you’re going to get the fastest possible download speeds is going to be a major deciding factor for most people. It makes sense: if you’re paying for a service, you want to get what you pay for.
Well, popular internet-testing service Ookla Speedtest just made it clear which NBN provider has the fastest fixed network of H1 2025, with the award going to Superloop.
To decide which provider could be deemed the fastest fixed network, Ookla didn’t simply just close its eyes and throw a dart at a dartboard. Instead, it analysed the results of over 18 million consumer initiated Speedtest results across 2.4 million users during Q1 and Q2 of 2025, focusing on major NBN providers.
Following its analysis, Ookla awarded Superloop as the Fastest Fixed Network in Australia of H1 2025, with users on its speediest plans experiencing the highest average download speeds of 768.77Mbps.
Providers weren’t just measured on download speed though: Ookla calculates its own aggregate ‘Speed Score’ metric to compare different providers, which it says “uses data from various metrics, including 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles of download and upload throughput and loaded latency. It combines to give an overall view of network performance”. Based on that combination, Superloop came out in front with a final Speed Score of 63.32 – around 8 points ahead of the runner up.
Superloop’s download speed result of 768.77Mbps is also significantly ahead of the next nearest provider (11.2% to be specific) and roughly doubles or even triples the numbers for some of Australia’s biggest internet providers. You can find out more about Ookla specific tests and findings here.
It’s a great achievement for the Australian-owned telco, and perfectly timed with the incoming arrival of the September NBN speed upgrades. We already regularly rate Superloop highly in our guide to the fastest NBN plans, with its gigabit NBN 1000 plan being a particular highlight – not only for the speeds it claims to provide, but for the incredible value on offer too.
Coming in at just AU$85p/m for the first six months, before increasing to a still-competitive AU$109p/m ongoing, Superloop’s Lightspeed 1Gbps plan represents one of the most cost-effective routes to blazing-fast download speeds.
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