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Paul1977

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#236111 18-May-2018 14:30
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I'm in Christchurch thinking of changing to Spark from Bigpipe.

 

Mainly looking at changing since Bigpipe traffic all routes through Auckland which adds unnessecary latency when I VPN into home. Plus I generally VPN in via my iPhone which is on Spark, or another Spark fibre connection (so Spark makes more sense than Bigpipe).

 

With Bigpipe I have a static IP which was just a one-off cost, but Spark change $15 a month which I'm not prepared to pay.

 

DDNS would be sufficient for my needs to allow the incoming VPN, but I wasn't sure if Spark might have started doing CGNAT on residential connections?





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  #2018362 18-May-2018 14:33
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no CGNat at all, we have plenty of IP Space :)





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  #2018365 18-May-2018 14:39
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With Bigpipe about to be migrate onto the Spark network (beginning 12 June) it might not be worth you moving.  Up to you though :)

 

Note that 12 June is the start date, not the end date for the last customer being migrated.





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  #2018366 18-May-2018 14:39
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hio77:

 

no CGNat at all, we have plenty of IP Space :)

 

 

Great, thanks for that.




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  #2018368 18-May-2018 14:40
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cbrpilot:

 

With Bigpipe about to be migrate onto the Spark network (beginning 12 June) it might not be worth you moving.  Up to you though :)

 

Note that 12 June is the start date, not the end date for the last customer being migrated.

 

 

Oh, I didn't know that was happening. Something to think about then!


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  #2018384 18-May-2018 14:48
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cbrpilot:

 

With Bigpipe about to be migrate onto the Spark network (beginning 12 June) it might not be worth you moving.  Up to you though :)

 

Note that 12 June is the start date, not the end date for the last customer being migrated.

 

 

@cbrpilot is the any way to get bumped up the queue and get migrated near the start?


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  #2018390 18-May-2018 14:53
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Paul1977:

 

cbrpilot:

 

With Bigpipe about to be migrate onto the Spark network (beginning 12 June) it might not be worth you moving.  Up to you though :)

 

Note that 12 June is the start date, not the end date for the last customer being migrated.

 

 

@cbrpilot is the any way to get bumped up the queue and get migrated near the start?

 

 

nope.

 

 

 

It's being done on a link/area basis not per customer





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