ISPs and changeovers (2 Degrees to Quic)

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#324293 25-Mar-2026 11:00

I'm looking at changing from 2 degrees to Quic.

It's been a while since I did a changeover. I take it 2 degrees still tends to ignore account change over requests. Is it best to cancel my 2 degrees account and then schedule the change over time for 2 days before the 2 degrees monthly account runs out? I don't want to have to pay 2 accounts in one month.

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#3473430 25-Mar-2026 11:11

Short answer yes, thats the best way, many guides and forum topics on this.

One of the most recent is here: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=81&topicid=323903&page_no=2

Another thread here: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=312400

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#3473458 25-Mar-2026 12:07

Another approach which I used for my Quic to 2degrees switchover (opposite to you but same principle applies) is to simply order a new fibre conneciton which then goes on LAN2 on your ONT. You can then switch over to Quic on LAN2 whenever suits you. Just reconfigure your router to whatever settings you have requested for Quic and plug into LAN 2 and check all is working. Then you can cancel 2degrees on LAN1.

Does mean a bit of paying both but you can time the switchover to say 5 business days beforehand to allow Quic time to switch on then you can cancel 2degrees before the end of the month. I believe 2degrees you pay in advance so you can just cancel anytime as long as you don't have a term contract etc.

Did this also for my inlaws switching from Spark to One NZ and same approach worked well too. They kept Spark running until I came over to configure the One NZ router. Meant there was minimal downtime for them.

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#3473526 25-Mar-2026 13:14

Can I ask why you moved to 2 degrees? I don't want to find the pings are bad or something.

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#3473583 25-Mar-2026 13:42

Pings for what? Quite subjective. A few of us run probes on globalping if you want to run some tests, or you can drop some IPs and people can check for you if they so feel. I moved from Spark and haven't had any concerns about latency.

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#3473587 25-Mar-2026 13:49

Why are you wanting to change OP?

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#3473588 25-Mar-2026 13:50

Donased:

Can I ask why you moved to 2 degrees? I don't want to find the pings are bad or something.

Reliability issues with IPv6. My router would get a IPv6 lease but be unable to renew it. Documented elsewhere on Geekzone but not a lot of info from Quic themselves as far as I know. I stuck with them for 2 month even buying a new router, replicating known configuration provided by other Quic customers, etc but never could get IPv6 to work as expected. Switched to 2degrees and all worked great without any config fiddling so am a bit wary about recommending Quic now.

I guess if you don't need IPv6 then won't impact you too much. Can always proactively turn off IPv6 on your router so your LAN devices don't assign themselves IPv6 addresses that becomes nonfunctional after the router's IPv6 lease expires.

But at the end of the day it's well documented here that pings can vary and change even within the same ISP. Not sure if it would be worthwhile switching just to chase better pings.

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#3473590 25-Mar-2026 13:54

KiwiSurfer:

Another approach which I used for my Quic to 2degrees switchover (opposite to you but same principle applies) is to simply order a new fibre conneciton which then goes on LAN2 on your ONT. You can then switch over to Quic on LAN2 whenever suits you. Just reconfigure your router to whatever settings you have requested for Quic and plug into LAN 2 and check all is working. Then you can cancel 2degrees on LAN1.

Does mean a bit of paying both but you can time the switchover to say 5 business days beforehand to allow Quic time to switch on then you can cancel 2degrees before the end of the month. I believe 2degrees you pay in advance so you can just cancel anytime as long as you don't have a term contract etc.

Did this also for my inlaws switching from Spark to One NZ and same approach worked well too. They kept Spark running until I came over to configure the One NZ router. Meant there was minimal downtime for them.

I did this also, it worked seamlessly apart from Quic having a short outage (a couple of hours out) the day after I cut off my 2degrees plan but had been pretty much faultless since

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#3473591 25-Mar-2026 13:59

MaxineN:

Why are you wanting to change OP?

In short, money is getting tight. Income has been cut twice in the past 3 months and even $10 a month makes a difference. But I don't want a worse experience.

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#3473594 25-Mar-2026 14:02

KiwiSurfer:

Donased:

Can I ask why you moved to 2 degrees? I don't want to find the pings are bad or something.

Reliability issues with IPv6. My router would get a IPv6 lease but be unable to renew it. Documented elsewhere on Geekzone but not a lot of info from Quic themselves as far as I know. I stuck with them for 2 month even buying a new router, replicating known configuration provided by other Quic customers, etc but never could get IPv6 to work as expected. Switched to 2degrees and all worked great without any config fiddling so am a bit wary about recommending Quic now.

I guess if you don't need IPv6 then won't impact you too much. Can always proactively turn off IPv6 on your router so your LAN devices don't assign themselves IPv6 addresses that becomes nonfunctional after the router's IPv6 lease expires.

But at the end of the day it's well documented here that pings can vary and change even within the same ISP. Not sure if it would be worthwhile switching just to chase better pings.

Funnily enough I have had issues with IPV6 on 2 degrees, it only worked well with their Orbi router (now tucked in a box as its useless) Both d-link and tp-link were a bit hit and miss so I gave up and run ipv4 only now.

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#3473595 25-Mar-2026 14:05

toejam316:

Pings for what? Quite subjective. A few of us run probes on globalping if you want to run some tests, or you can drop some IPs and people can check for you if they so feel. I moved from Spark and haven't had any concerns about latency.

That was just an example, back in the my republic days random servers used to have bad pings. To their credit they worked with me to trace the issue (australia) and rerouted traffic around the node.