Last year's Slingshot deal is up for renewal soon. What is a good deal now? Would prefer not to bundle with other utilities like the Contact deal.
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That sounds more like an electrical or heat issue to me to lose that many units. Like setting it up it in direct sunlight with a window in front of it making it fail often in summer etc.
@Dunno: Eh granted it was upstairs where there was no aircon but it was kept out of sunlight. Moved to an Asus unit provided by MyRepublic (Rest in peace) and have been using the same unit for several years since without any issues.
My Slingshot 12-month $65 term has just expired too. I was looking for a no-contract 300/100 plan, as I have wondered about going to 100/20 later this year.
It looks like $80/month is the new baseline, and there aren't a lot of perks to be found.
I ended up signing up with Quic 300/100 for $85/mo (but the first month was $57 including set-up after a 50% discount). I also considered Simply Broadband which has the same plan for 79.79/mo (no set-up fee). Who knows, I might still switch over to Simply in a few months.
Hopefully the upgrade of the lower 50/10 plans to 100/20 shakes things up a bit.
How did you get the 50% off the first month with Quic?
will PM you.
Could you PM it to me too please
they will jack up the 50/10 when it becomes 100/20. no escaping.
possibly, as I understand it the pricing from Chorus doesn't change ("free upgrade"), but the ISPs might use the change to increase their profits
Wee update.
I went with Skinny because after including the connection fee, Zeronet were only $65 cheaper for the year. Didn't want to risk it…
However, it's 72hrs after my start date and I have no broadband.
Only thing is I have a customer support phone number to call but so far, not good as they've not been able to sort it after 2 calls.
And now, at the weekend, the phone line is dead. The only way to reach them is either Facebook or apple messenger which is stupid as in 2025 surely they've heard of a cross platform messenger like WhatsApp?
If you are neither a meta or apple ecosystem user, sucks to be you on the weekend.
Very frustrating. Have to wait until Monday which will be 5 DAYS WITHOUT SERVICE.
did you swap the port on your ONT running to your router (assuming fibre)?
Hi, what do you mean?
Yes, fibre.
Left everything as is from when with slingshot (& myrepublic before)Ethernet cable from LAN1 port on ONT going to router. Should it be elsewhere?
Got 2 green lights on ONT (power and GPON).
Skinny rep said the ONT serial number was a mismatch - no idea how. I gave the correct serial number from my box and was assured it would be all good in a few hours.
Sadly it's the weekend now and no phone service until Monday
Theres multiple ports on the ont, sometimes when an isp doesnt relinquish service it can be provisioned on to the second lan port of the ont. Try moving the ethernet cable in the ont to the port next to the one you're using.
The fact you have a gpon light lit up siggest you should be getting something.
@Everettpsycho: Thank you very much. Appreciate the advice. I tried with LAN2 without luck. I'll try the other LAN ports on the ONT.
My router says "WAN port is unplugged" when I try to set things up.
Logging in to my Skinny broadband account shows this:
"It looks like we haven't got your connection up and running just yet. "
All rather weird and makes me think the problem is on their end despite what support says.
@strangercheapie: As much as its meant to be easy to switch i don't think I've ever experienced a seamless cutover when changing. Every time one party stuffs it up in some way or another and i have to request assistance from contacts in the industry to resolve it.
The fact skinny says its not set up suggests they havent activated it properly.
@Everettpsycho: Thank you.
The Skinny team were sure it was set up but my online account says different.
I've now tried all the LAN slots (4), tried 3 different cables and even done the manual reset on my router.
I just have to wait until Monday.
If still no joy I'll have to go elsewhere.
Maybe having a contact number for customer service isn't all it's cracked up to be! LOL.
@strangercheapie: One assumes you solved it and now know. But you can't just switch provider and that's it. You need to set up the router with their set-up details (which you have to do yourself I'd you don't take their preset-up one).
There is usually a FAQ on their site for future reference for others.
@LupinS: Thanks. Turns out it was a problem on their end. Between them and Chorus, they hadn't quite switched on my service!
Just about to move rural and there is no fibre connection. Getting 2 degrees 4g unlimited connection. Not far out of town so hopefully speeds will be tolerable. Will see how it goes. Only $40 a month with a connected mobile plan. At least its a lower price with the speed reduction from fibre.
You could consider starlink too but it's ~$80/mo for the lite plan(50-100mbps) plus the upfront cost for the dish($449) plus install fee. Can do a 30 day trial to see if you are happy with the service and return the hardware if not.
You could just set it up outside in an open area with line of sight to the sky rather than mounting it to trial it rather than installing it to the roof.
I'm moving to a fibre area if you fancy starlink. Can ship the dish if you want to buy one. Vdsl is so bad when I used it. Luckily you get unlimited, this area is limited to 100gb of 4g.
Thanks I think I'll stick with the 4g connection for now and see how it goes. Might need to upgrade once the kids get older but will be fine for now.
Hotshot is $80 for 300/100 and is open term. https://www.hotshot.nz/
I used them before and they were great, only switched to Slingshot to get a cheaper bill, but now Slingshot 12 months contract is up and I'm back to paying $82.
there was a guy on reddit who claimed he had his own ISP and was reseller? let me see if I can find the account
I saw this as well, and had it bookmarked for a while. Will also see if I can track him down.
Just had an email come through from Zeronet with the wonderful news that my plan is increasing by $16/month next cycle, so obviously time to move. Horrible customer service with them anyway.
Anyone have good deals on gigabit at the moment? Or is something like Fast Connect above still the best value out there right now?
I will always comment when I see Zeronet, yes they are indeed the worst customer experience ever.
Have looked around. 2Degrees seems to offer the cheapest Fibre300 at the moment. $95/m with $150 joining credit. Use my mum's Super Gold number for $5 off. Turns out $77.5/m. Don't have a mobile plan with them, otherwise further $10 off.
Now Skinny is the cheapest for Fibre 300. $80/m with first month free = $73.33/m.
Who is the cheapest 50/10 providers? As Chorus are increasing the speed to 100 soon, that could be a good option for many.
Believe it's sky ATM.
So the fibre upgrade is for Chorus users only? The Enable users will stay with what they have?
The Enable users will stay with what they have?
I think you have to ask them directly if they haven't made any public announcement.
I see Spark is increasing prices by $5-$8 per month in August… Does anyone have any recent experience with Contact fibre?
Just swapped to them from Spark after a move about a week ago after running some numbers with their CONTACT200 deal ($200 credit over 4 mo). Have a full power/gas/fibre bundle.
I work from home so reliability and speed are important - I never had issues with Spark, but they weren't cheap. Decided to go with the 300mbps plan since Chorus is upgrading everything to 500mbps across the board.
Contact Energy's fibre is provided by Devoli under the hood. Connection was fine and on time, didn't have any issues. Support-wise, I've contacted them for a variety of weird setup things I noticed for our power/gas setup, and it's been relatively painless via a Whatsapp chat.
I did have to call them directly to disable CGNAT so they'd stop swapping my IP out from under me multiple times a day.
I have seen some reports that they have reliability issues every now and then (internet just goes out).Since it's not a fixed term contract, and my read of their T&Cs is that I just need to stay connected for 4mo to get the full $200 credit, I'll re-evaluate in a few months time!
Thanks for this! Any further updates since the switch over? I assume it's been smooth? Also did you have to give an explanation when requesting for CGNAT to be disabled?
Easiest is to tell them you need port forwarding to work for Plex. Simple. As that won't work with CGNAT.
I had to call them back after their first attempt to disable CGNAT did nothing. They asked what I wanted it for the second time (mostly to see if they needed to explain anything to me, I think) but basically said I needed to host a Minecraft server (Plex as suggested above would've been fine too!).
Looks like CGNAT's been disabled as expected now, so no more issues from my side atm!
@butterworth: Oh cool. And how do you confirm or verify it has indeed been disabled? If you dont host a server?
@Martz5: My router dashboard tells me what my WAN IP is - behind CGNAT, my WAN IP was in the 100s.
Then I compared to my public IP reported by whatismyip.com - this is usually in the 200s.After my second call with Contact, I rebooted my router and both the WAN and the public IP were the same number (200s).
@Martz5: As mentioned above or other way would be to open any port (any number between 5000 -10000) for outside access and check that port on www.canyouseeme.org. If you already have any port forwarding setup, just check that port.
From AI
The CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT) IP range is 100.64.0.0/10. This range encompasses IP addresses from 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255. It is specifically reserved for use by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in their CGNAT deployments,
@Martz5: I have cgnat disabled. Not sure if cgnat affect it or not. Haven't really looked into that.
Update if anyone is wondering.
Signed up yesterday, requested today as the join date. The connection transferred over around lunch time. Internet was down for maybe 2-3 mins. I then rang them and was on hold for about 15 mins, had maybe a 5 min conversation to request CGNAT to be disabled. Internet went down maybe 30 mins later and i've rebooted and can confirm CGNAT has been disabled, so all is well for nowBy any chance did you try Stremio with CGNAT on?
I have 2deg broadband (presumably under CGNAT) and Stremio works fine.
Unfortunately not sorry, it would have been good to check! The CGNAT removal was supposed to happen sometime this evening but i guess that got actioned faster than expected
not a sky customer but if you sign up through their website but not proceed to finalize, someone will call you and offer 50pm for 100mbps and 75 for 500mbps (basiclaly same as sky subscribers), free router rental.
No, I haven't experienced this. I got to the final page prior to finalizing the order days ago.
No way that's a great top! I will try
Didn't work for me
or me .. oh well
Got a price rise email from slingshot basically, where they are breaching the 12 month contract with me. So I can leave them early and sign up to Sky. They say I have to do that within 30 days. I don't think ISPs should be allowed to do that under the Fair Trading Act and Unfair Contracts Act, as it doesn't feel like the contract is fair when we have to pay them if we breach the contract, and they don't have to pay us anything if they breach it.But does anyone know if I leave Slingshot within a billing cycle, whether will they prorata the bill? It looks like there is at least a week delay when switching and no guarantee that they will switch on a certain date. Last time I switched I was without internet for a day because the switch was mucked up by the ISP.
I don't think ISPs should be allowed to do that under the Fair Trading Act and Unfair Contracts Act, as it doesn't feel like the contract is fair when we have to pay them if we breach the contract, and they don't have to pay us anything if they breach it.
You might be right.
I'd be interested to know what you said when you shook hands on a deal with Slingshot?
Did you say (in your agreement with them) that it was okay for them to change the price on you, mid-way through, but only if they allow you to cancel the contract?
I've got 2 Slingshot accounts, both of which had a $20 monthly discount after I agreed to sign up for 12 months last year. That didnt stop them jacking the price up during the term though. The discounts expired last month, which I've only noticed when this months bills have come through. I also got the email about a latest increase. Have emailed them seeking a renewed retention/loyalty discount for both accounts but its been three days and no reply yet.
I called sky today for a "deal", i have no sky tv or anything.
They offered $50 pm for 100 mb down and 75 for 500 down.
Bargain!
Can you share what you said? I'm pretty crap at knowing how to ask for things like that. Thanks!
"hello I would like broadband , are there any deals"
They said it's a special offer and here's the prices for each ..was super easy
Can confirm this works. But you have to ask them for their personal deal. So $50 a month without needing any other services. But not great that some customers get a better deal because they phone to signup rather then online.
Are you on a contract with them?
12 months
What happens after the 12 months, does it go back to $60/month?
i sign up for smartcall(https://smartcall.nz/en/homeband/), 100mb/300mb is 84/month, and 450/950 is 104/month
Damn I am sure they're a legit company but that website reads like a scam 100%. Barely passable english
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The network itself was ok for me - it's just if there's an issue their support team and choice of hardware is honestly garbage. I went through 7x routers (5 or 6 were Huawei branded) in the decade I was with them; I'd say if you have your own BYO router it'd be an okay choice.