PSA Spark / Skinny / Bigpipe Fibre Broadband now supports DHCP

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#3368685 29-Apr-2025 12:51

matisyahu:

Any word on when it'll be available for Skinny customers soon?

If you are south of the Bombay Hills it is available for you now. Auckland and remaining parts of Northland in a week's time.

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#3368733 29-Apr-2025 12:53

cbrpilot:

matisyahu:

Any word on when it'll be available for Skinny customers soon?

If you are south of the Bombay Hills it is available for you now. Auckland and remaining parts of Northland in a week's time.

Any word regarding Avalon, Lower Hutt? I remember seeing there were two outages for maintenance (on the Spark website for the area I am in) and I wondered whether it was related to it being rolled out.

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#3368745 29-Apr-2025 13:16

matisyahu:

cbrpilot:

matisyahu:

Any word on when it'll be available for Skinny customers soon?

If you are south of the Bombay Hills it is available for you now. Auckland and remaining parts of Northland in a week's time.

Any word regarding Avalon, Lower Hutt? I remember seeing there were two outages for maintenance (on the Spark website for the area I am in) and I wondered whether it was related to it being rolled out.

Should be live for all of NZ for Skinny and Bigpipe - except for Auckland and North.

Outages for maintenance will be unrelated - probably some Chorus work going on in your area.

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#3368749 29-Apr-2025 13:32

cbrpilot:
matisyahu:
cbrpilot:
matisyahu:

Any word on when it'll be available for Skinny customers soon?

If you are south of the Bombay Hills it is available for you now. Auckland and remaining parts of Northland in a week's time.

Any word regarding Avalon, Lower Hutt? I remember seeing there were two outages for maintenance (on the Spark website for the area I am in) and I wondered whether it was related to it being rolled out.

Should be live for all of NZ for Skinny and Bigpipe - except for Auckland and North.

Outages for maintenance will be unrelated - probably some Chorus work going on in your area.

It took a few minutes but I'm back online and things appear to be working well so far.

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#3368812 29-Apr-2025 14:57

I switched over yesterday, as part of swapping to a new router. I'm with Skinny in Christchurch, and no problems so far.

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#3369375 30-Apr-2025 22:25

cbrpilot:

If you live in an area where Unison is your Local Fibre Company (now owned by TFF) then DHCP authentication will not work in your area.

This mentions Unison, but just for clarity's sake does this statement apply to TFF within Hamilton?

And secondly, is Skinny all OK with TFF (Hamilton) and DHCP?

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#3369378 30-Apr-2025 23:10

Sheagae:

cbrpilot:

If you live in an area where Unison is your Local Fibre Company (now owned by TFF) then DHCP authentication will not work in your area.

This mentions Unison, but just for clarity's sake does this statement apply to TFF within Hamilton?

And secondly, is Skinny all OK with TFF (Hamilton) and DHCP?

DHCP is not currently supported in the Unison areas of the TFF network, but is supported for Spark, Skinny and Bigpipe in the standard TFF areas such as Hamilton.

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#3369449 1-May-2025 11:23

Just switchedover my ER-X on Skinny in Lower Hutt, I saw all sorts of recommendations to use the wizard, but it was actually easier to not have it reset my configs and instead just change any referrence to PPPoE to eth0 in configs, and for the actual internet interface switch it from No Address to to Use DHCP.

All done in about 5 mins.

When done then deleted the PPPoE interface.

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#3370933 6-May-2025 15:28

Hi all, I've updated the first post and title to reflect that DHCP auth is now available across all Spark, Skinny and Bigpipe Fibre.

Unison areas limitation remains.

Thanks!

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#3419297 27-Sep-2025 21:49

From testing a Smart Modem 1 although DHCP increased the download speeds by only 1%, the upload speeds increased by 5%.

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#3419300 27-Sep-2025 22:42

bfginger: From testing a Smart Modem 1 although DHCP increased the download speeds by only 1%, the upload speeds increased by 5%.

See here: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=319187&page_no=4#3361125

For the Spark Smart Modem (even the 1) you'll find no real difference using DHCP and it is recommended to use PPPoE instead for reliability as they can fully offload PPPoE.

I would always use PPPoE over DHCP where possible.

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#3419460 28-Sep-2025 14:37

I came across this as I am setting up OPNsense to replace my ISP router. I want to keep the ISP router for now, but I don't want to use bridge mode. I'm not sure if I can do this without it.

Did the dhcp rollout happen in Auckland?

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