Slingshot

[Hopeful Bastard]

Slingshot is the worst internet company i have ever been with!

Speeds are slow. Net is guaranteed to drop out at least twice a week. Generally when you are right in the middle of shooting someone, for around 5 mins...

a 3.2gb file using Utorrent with 10,000 seeders and 400 leechers - I had a download speed of 280Kbps :/ Use your maths to get the time that woulda taken......

We are living in Petone and are on their "Fastest your line can handle broadband"


Soo cant wait till that contract is over and move to Telstra Clear or Orcons cable/fibre...

[iYRe]

torrenting is crippled on purpose. Its in their T&C for most of the plans. Your fault for not reading it.

and.. well.. they have no control over your net dropping out.. there are a gazillion things that can cause that, most commonly a line fault. Call your telco.

[SMOKEU]

Maybe a good VPN could raise the torrent speeds by bypassing the ISP speed restrictions.

[iYRe]

Maybe a good VPN could raise the torrent speeds by bypassing the ISP speed restrictions.

nope.. it inspects the packets.. deeply..

[jrandom]

I'm on Slingshot at home. Uncapped data plan. They traffic-shape (ie, throttle) the fuck out of it. It gets fast, occasionally, during the week, but basically most of the time we're screwed.

The performance I see gives me the impression that they're simply oversubscribed. Dunno where the bottleneck is, but there sure is one somewhere. Every so often our internet here rips along like greased lightning, but a lot of the time, P2P traffic is obviously being throttled to near zero.

At least they straight up say they do that in their ToS:

"If you are on an “uncapped” or “unlimited” plan the total amount of data you can upload or download is unlimited. We may use traffic prioritisation policies for these plans and our capped plans at any time to improve the overall performance amongst our customers."

Translation: If a significant number of other Slingshot customers are on Skype and X-Box Live of a Saturday afternoon, forget about trying to download yourself a movie.

Their system works OK if all you want to do is web-surf. But if all you want to do is web-surf, why would you pay for an uncapped data plan?

Oh, and then there was the three-day stone-cold outage we had once. No internet whatsoever for anyone, boom.

I'd like to move to another ISP, but someone went and signed a 12-month contract...

[jrandom]

Maybe a good VPN could raise the torrent speeds by bypassing the ISP speed restrictions.

Depends how they prioritise VPN traffic. It'd quite possibly help.

nope.. it inspects the packets.. deeply..

Inspect the packets? You can't see inside a VPN connection if you're not one of the endpoints. That's why it's called a virtual private network. Encryption. Cunts in the middle not being able to see inside it. All the ISP knows is that there's a VPN connection from A to B and data's being transferred. That data could be anything.

[SMOKEU]

Unlimited pr0n downloads

[Hopeful Bastard]

torrenting is crippled on purpose. Its in their T&C for most of the plans. Your fault for not reading it.

and.. well.. they have no control over your net dropping out.. there are a gazillion things that can cause that, most commonly a line fault. Call your telco.

Even for a download for an update? 360mb gaming update took me 45 mins :/

[Smokin]

I have been with Slingshot for years and the amount of problems ive had have been minimal.
Only been twice that I can remember where I lost my connection and average 1.5mb a second
on my Motogp torrents, and around 500 to 800kb on public trackers.
Private trackers are flat out at about 1.8mb.
Im on a 100Gb plan and between myself and my son there is bugger all of it left every month.
He does complain about a little lag sometimes when Im downloading tho.

[imdying]

Yes, Slingshot has a drop out most nights... Reconnects by itself straight away, and only ever notice it if I hear the router click, but would be a regular piss off for a gamer.

[imdying]

nope.. it inspects the packets.. deeply..

With it's magical decryption system I can only assume you've no idea what a VPN is or how it operates.

[iYRe]

With it's magical decryption system I can only assume you've no idea what a VPN is or how it operates.

If it drops out, its a line fault.

Yes, I know what a VPN is.. and I can tell you from experience that torrenting over a VPN at C+ (slingshot) will not help.

[imdying]

No, drop outs do not have to be solely related to line faults.

And no, I do not think you actually know what a VPN does, otherwise you would know that it definitely does help with downloading vast amounts of data via Slingshot, and why, and why they can't inspect those packets.

[iYRe]

No, drop outs do not have to be solely related to line faults.

And no, I do not think you actually know what a VPN does, otherwise you would know that it definitely does help with downloading vast amounts of data via Slingshot, and why, and why they can't inspect those packets.

ok.. well.. you're obviously more expert than me.. so what ever..

keep on doing what ever you're doing..

[imdying]

ok.. well.. you're obviously more expert than me.. so what ever..

keep on doing what ever you're doing..

Clearly, every time I read a post in this section from you it's either mostly wrong, or completely wrong, or slanted with some queer arse bias that results in bad advice.

And I will... it'll be a a TB this month or damn close to it.