$80.60 per month by the looks of it for a 300/100 connection. Looks to be on par with many others on price.

Interesting it is a per day price instead of per month billing...

Why pay for extra days you don’t use? With us, if you move or switch, your charges stop the day you leave.

FYI, just enquired and the router they are offering is a Netcomm NF18 CloudMesh:

https://support.netcommwireless.com/products/NF18MESH

cokemaster:

Why pay for extra days you don’t use? With us, if you move or switch, your charges stop the day you leave.

That is an awesome feature. The likes of Spark make this very complicated.

Fantastic, exactly the way it should be IMO (and exactly the way it is for most utilities). Great example of Electric Kiwi's customer-centric ethos.

Don't be surprised though if the telco apologists on here come out and tell you that being arbitrarily charged for services you don't use is great, actually 😋

liquidcore: Given that they use DHCP and provide the same router as Slingshot, I'm going to take a guess and say they're using Vocus.

It's interesting they only allow customers that have existing fibre runs and not new connections.

This is because - from memory - Vocus charge for new connections.

antonknee:

Don't be surprised though if the telco apologists on here come out and tell you that being arbitrarily charged for services you don't use is great, actually 😋

Threw them a few questions about this as I'm an existing customer:

• Static IP for $0.33 per day
• IPv6 Available
• Service is through Vocus.

Overall seems competitive but nothing too crazy. Are the Vocus ISPs alright for performance generally?

I'm a happy Electric Kiwi customer. I'm also a happy Vodafone customer. 

I'll stay happy with both companies and stay with both.

EK-supplied routers

I'm contemplating moving to EK BB when my current contract with 2D is up in early Sept; this way I hopefully can sort out remote Plex access without needing a static IP.

Anyway, not surprisingly, EK supplies a Netcomm NF18MESH router for the 300/100 plan; based on previous experience using Netcomm routers, I've not been that impressed with the UX, but is this an adequate router? We have a significant number of devices connected to the network (esp lots of wifi bulbs and Google Home devices), so need to be comfortable it'll be stable. (The current Fritzbox 7490 has been pretty rock-solid).

When I mentioned I wasn't too keen on Netcomm, they did offer me a 'free' upgrade to the router they supply with their 800/500 plan (a Netgear Orbi RBR350), but looking at that it's a two-pack mesh unit. Given we don't use the router for wifi (we use those Aruba APs sold off on TM last year) I wouldn't get any benefit from the mesh aspect. But would the router itself be a better option than the Netcom?

My preference is to hold onto my Fritzbox, but I'm pretty sure they're only 'rented' from 2D so need to be returned when you leave - is that correct? I'm still waiting on a reply from 2D on this; I've had the Fritzbox for three years by the time we leave, so I kinda hoped they'd not want it back! I guess the other option is to buy a s/h Fritzbox?

Thanks for any advice.

I am pretty sure the NF18MESH is just an NF18ACV with a different firmware designed to make it easy to link the little mesh unit they also make which is a store-and-forward repeater. 

The NF18ACV is a good router, has a few firmware interface bugs that will annoy IT technicians (change the local IP range from 192.168.20.0/24 and you cant login anymore) but works well for home users. The only thing i really dont like about it is the wifi range is pretty bad. 

raytaylor:

 

I am pretty sure the NF18MESH is just an NF18ACV with a different firmware designed to make it easy to link the little mesh unit they also make which is a store-and-forward repeater. 

 

The NF18ACV is a good router, has a few firmware interface bugs that will annoy IT technicians (change the local IP range from 192.168.20.0/24 and you cant login anymore) but works well for home users. The only thing i really dont like about it is the wifi range is pretty bad. 

 

It also has cool features like IPSEC VPN but only supports IKEv1 which is insecure behind CGNAT/Dynamic IP as you have to use Aggressive Mode

IKEv2 has been out for ages