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#290032 16-Oct-2021 10:07
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Hi All,

 

Just wanted to get a gauge if anyone is using Now Internet in Auckland and how their speeds are internationally.

 

I understand that all traffic is routed through their Napier POP but wondered how this affects Auckland response times and speed.

 

 


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  #2796171 16-Oct-2021 10:53
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We have users on NOW really good customer support and great peering, they use CGNat if that is a issue, international transit is a bit low




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  #2796360 16-Oct-2021 23:46
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Yeah it's only $5 extra for static ip. But download speed internationally is my concern adding additional ms


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  #2796362 16-Oct-2021 23:55
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Personally, I'd go with Voyager as they're the same price and don't have CG-NAT (or $15 once-off IPv4 Static + /56 IPv6 Subnet) else one of the bigger ISP's like Spark (+Skinny) / Vocus (Slingshot / Orcon / Stuff / Sky) or 2degrees.

 

That is my personal opinion. I also personally don't really know anyone on Now to have a say how they are as an ISP but from my understanding they have good customer service but at the same time so do Voyager.





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  #2844154 6-Jan-2022 11:15
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A little late to the party, but we've had Now since the beginning of time (2013), and they do have great support, via live chat or phone, always quick to pickup and helpful. But there international bandwidth (or routing/peering?) could be better, but it's not terrible.

 

In the early years int speeds (and sometimes local) would drop noticeably during holidays, but it's much better these days, not really an issue. In general over the years we've rarely had to call them up, and the connection is generally solid and just works.

 

 

 

But I have recently come across several random (usually small) sites which have DNS issues using their DNS, but work fine using say Cloudflare's DNS, but using CF DNS for everything causes some sites to have huge larceny, e.g. facebook (shown below). I'm currently using DF DNS.

 

I suspect this is due to CF feeding me US data centers for FB or something like that.

 

 

 

 

We did contact Now about the DNS issues, and they said they would check with there up stream providers but never heard back and I believe the issues continue today.

 

 

 

So we're strongly considering moving to Voyager. (for better int bandwidth and the static IP), and, turns out, $1 cheaper /m.


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