Slingshot

[SMOKEU]

Thanks for pinging those IP addresses for me - they're for the TelstraClear BF3 servers that I play on. My ping is currently around 23ms on average for those servers, which is great for online gaming, but I wouldn't want it to be any more than 30ms for those servers. I sometimes play on the Aussie servers as well so a higher ping is to be expected, but if it's low on the NZ servers, then it shouldn't be too bad on Sydney based servers.

[iYRe]

Thanks for pinging those IP addresses for me - they're for the TelstraClear BF3 servers that I play on. My ping is currently around 23ms on average for those servers, which is great for online gaming, but I wouldn't want it to be any more than 30ms for those servers. I sometimes play on the Aussie servers as well so a higher ping is to be expected, but if it's low on the NZ servers, then it shouldn't be too bad on Sydney based servers.

so you can expect a 16ms improvement, approx.. then :P (mind you, I live next door to the cabinet too.. well.. 500m away.. I get max speed)

[SMOKEU]

so you can expect a 16ms improvement, approx.. then :P (mind you, I live next door to the cabinet too.. well.. 500m away.. I get max speed)

As a matter of interest, what are your download/upload speeds like?

[iYRe]

As a matter of interest, what are your download/upload speeds like?

Mine are fine. You cant torrent on slingshot though, they have cisco SCE's which cripple it nicely for you...

I have a server in europe, torrent to it, ftp it to home (FTP being a "legitimate" protocol, not restricted). I do something like 100GB of stuff a month between midnight and 8am (dont want to slow things down while actually using the connection).

Rarely have need to upload anything - do that at work If I need to.

[marmel]

haha, yeah geekzone.. where wannabe geeks try and tell the actual geeks what's broken in their own networks..

Slingshot has something like 50,000 ADSL customers (at least it did a couple of years ago.. probably more now). Probably 100 of them even have accounts on geekzone.. same goes for all the major ISP's.

I'd trust geekzone for actual intelligent comment like I'd trust KB for advice on, well.. pretty much anything. (geekzone is the ISP version of KB.. alot of what is said there about stuff is truly ignorant - actually network engineers who know their stuff avoid places like that like the plague..(mostly because they are busy making stuff work and not wasting their time talking to noobs)).

Maybe you should hang around geekzone a little more and you would realise there are a lot of IT engineers, including IT guys from the telcos that participate in the forums. There are plenty of guys that have worked in IT for years that are willing to lend advice.

With regards to the number of Slingshot users that post on Geekzone I can't tell you how many that would be. What I can tell you is that as a snapshot of NZ community the numbers on average participating on Geekzone are probably a good reflection of the percentages held by each telco in NZ.

I have had xnet as a broadband provider and if can spare 10 minutes see if you can find a thread on geekzone under the xnet section which details the appalling international speeds which went on for MONTHS and MONTHS. A lot of customers simply lost faith and found themselves gravitating back to one of the big 3.

There are also plenty of threads about the appalling customer service of Slingshot although I appreciate this isn't a strongpoint for a lot of telco providers.

There is a reason why Telecom and Vodafone hold such a large proportion of the NZ market, you may be able to save a little more elsewhere but generally it is like bikes and gear, you normally get what you pay for.

[SMOKEU]

Mine are fine. You cant torrent on slingshot though, they have cisco SCE's which cripple it nicely for you...

I have a server in europe, torrent to it, ftp it to home (FTP being a "legitimate" protocol, not restricted). I do something like 100GB of stuff a month between midnight and 8am (dont want to slow things down while actually using the connection).

Rarely have need to upload anything - do that at work If I need to.

Have you tried using a VPN with them?

[Nova.]

SMOKEU bro stay with telstra, probably the best ping you're going to get in nz atm without paying massive dollars.

[iYRe]

Have you tried using a VPN with them?

yep.. need to VPN to work all the time. (incidentally, Slingshot network staff and management need to vpn when working from home... :P)

[iYRe]

Maybe you should hang around geekzone a little more and you would realise there are a lot of IT engineers, including IT guys from the telcos that participate in the forums. There are plenty of guys that have worked in IT for years that are willing to lend advice.

With regards to the number of Slingshot users that post on Geekzone I can't tell you how many that would be. What I can tell you is that as a snapshot of NZ community the numbers on average participating on Geekzone are probably a good reflection of the percentages held by each telco in NZ.

I have had xnet as a broadband provider and if can spare 10 minutes see if you can find a thread on geekzone under the xnet section which details the appalling international speeds which went on for MONTHS and MONTHS. A lot of customers simply lost faith and found themselves gravitating back to one of the big 3.

There are also plenty of threads about the appalling customer service of Slingshot although I appreciate this isn't a strongpoint for a lot of telco providers.

There is a reason why Telecom and Vodafone hold such a large proportion of the NZ market, you may be able to save a little more elsewhere but generally it is like bikes and gear, you normally get what you pay for.

I'm sure its wonderful.

I meet a lot of people call themselves "IT engineers". The IT industry in NZ is very small and we pretty much all know each other..
(note, I am not an IT engineer...)

[imdying]

Slingshot... well, you can consistenly get at least 750GB a month from them (for your $60 a month or whatever it is), but I've never seen a whole 1TB come down in a month.... yet... That's torrenting, but only during the free off peak times. Ran over your allowance during the on peak and it rapes the arse out of it though... not worse than dialup, but close.

[SMOKEU]

I might try out their unlimited plan for a month if there's no contract and see how I go.

[skippa1]

we have been with slingshot for ages. they do cheap internet, and when its workin, its good as gold.
however.
when something isnt going well, you're properly fucked. By far the worst customer service Ive ever had. on more than one occasion their incompetence has driven me to the point where Id have stabbed some cunt who worked for slingshot on sight - they are fucking awful.

If you can deal with that, they are good in all other areas

+1 on that.........I actually timed the hold time on one call to the call centre, 58min, then I got put onto a "trainee" who said the question was too technical for her, could I call back tomorrow. The worst....without a doubt, the most hopeless bunch of bastards I have ever came accross.

[iYRe]

should be noted that none of the big ISP's have a "helpdesk" - they all have a call centre who can help with basic stuff.. and like 3 "actual" technicians. If you want proper tech support you'll need to go to one of the smaller, more personal ISPs.
Xtra, TCL, Orcon, VF, and Slingshot are the biggest.. and none have a "helpdesk" - people like Maxnet, Inspire, etc do.

[MOTOXXX]

dont use torrents, get into usenet. goes over ssl, supernews does a good deal for $10 per month.
anything you download will basically max out your connection - my stuff comes down at 1.8mb second minimum.

[iYRe]

i use www.feralhosting.com - web based torrent client on a server.. 5 TB data, 1 GB/s down, 500MB/s up.. 500GB HDD.. untraceable to me by our antipiratey friends.