meesham: I got connected to Slingshot Unlimited as my backup internet connection 3 weeks ago and so far I've been pretty damn impressed. My primary connection is Telstra cable but in the past 3 weeks of being connected to Slingshot I've had zero outages and the speeds have been consistent, unlike Telstra with 2 outages and the complete disaster that was their free weekend. My cable connection has been down for the past 4 hours and counting, my router is currently directing traffic over the Slingshot link. Another plus is that when I've called up their tech support I've spoken to someone within a minute, unlike Telstra's 30-40 minute wait times.

Now I just need the connection speed to be fixed up and everything will be great, I'm only connecting at 6.5 Mb/s (I used to get around 12Mb/s with xtra) - but that's still 6.5Mb/s faster than my Telstra cable connection at the moment and I believe it's been handed to Chorus to look at.

Nebbie: 

Sounds like your ADSL line has a basic (minor) line fault dry join somewhere maybe not to much of a major issue but if not treated it will become worse. Good to here its been looked into :)

In regards to the TCL outages 2 in one week do you know what they were?

meesham:
I'm going to have my electrician look at the cabling on my side of the demarcation point when he comes to fix some other stuff early next month, so maybe that might make a difference. AdrianD is also migrating my connection to EUBA to see if that improves things.