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Gordy7

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#2894542 31-Mar-2022 09:02

Who/where is the MIRA company?

A Google search has answered my question:

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/vocus-officially-acquired-by-mira-aware-super-consortium-for-au3-5-billion/

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#2908075 28-Apr-2022 23:56

Heads up for anyone being migrated.

Slingshot is enabling Port Filtering as part of the migration from Stuff fibre, so if you are hosting anything on these ports you may find they no longer work after being migrated. Go into their portal and disable port filtering to open it back up.
https://help.slingshot.co.nz/hc/en-us/articles/360005168434-Port-Filtering

They are also subscribing you to the Family Filter subscription (though it is set to off), which is currently free but will be $5 per month after the first 12 months. Not clear how or when this applies to Stuff fibre users but it may end up being a silent new charge in 12 months if you don't disable it.
https://help.slingshot.co.nz/hc/en-us/articles/360000047893-Slingshot-Family-Filter

How much does Family Filter cost?

Family Filter is $5 per month and we are currently offering the first 12 months of this service free of cost.

IPv6 continues to work.

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#2908178 29-Apr-2022 09:40

Sounddude:

nztim:

IMHO I see Orcon Group (as Vocus in NZ is sold) will be the business/wholesale/government brand and 2degrees (or slingshot) will be the retail brand

Just to clear this up, Vocus Group Ltd became Orcon Group Limit when it was about to be IPO'ed.

It has since stopped its IPO when MIRA bought Vocus Group (the entire of Vocus not just NZ), which has since purchased 2Degrees. The new NZ entity will be branded 2Degrees rather than Orcon Group.

2Degrees is the parent company brand with all the subbrands underneath (Vocus, Slingshot, FLip, 2degrees etc)

Orcon group Limited sounds so familiar.... it's almost like 9429037865863 used to be related...

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#2908180 29-Apr-2022 09:43

If the Slingshot and Flip brands are going to be retained it'll be interesting to see how they are made to look different or will they just be brands competing against each other?

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#2908187 29-Apr-2022 10:18

DjShadow:

If the Slingshot and Flip brands are going to be retained it'll be interesting to see how they are made to look different or will they just be brands competing against each other?

This has actually become core strategy for a couple of providers now, as the customer is usually entirely unaware it's actually the same company it allows customers to churn without actually loosing the customer entirely.

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#2945271 22-Jul-2022 14:34

Have any other ex stuff-fibre customers noticed that since being migrated to Slingshot that you get disconnects?

I had hardly any with Stuff-Fibre and since migration to Slingshot I've found that my router has since migration lost its DHCP connection and I have to reset it. This never occurred previously

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#2950753 4-Aug-2022 18:47

bump

It happened again today

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#2950799 4-Aug-2022 22:04

Have you let them know?

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#2950896 5-Aug-2022 12:14

quickymart:

Have you let them know?

Not yet I wanted to see if other ex stuff stuff-fibre customers migrated to Slingshot had the issue, it occurs approx every 2 weeks, appears to be lost of dhcp address and not automatically renewing

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#2950900 5-Aug-2022 12:27

xlinknz:

Have any other ex stuff-fibre customers noticed that since being migrated to Slingshot that you get disconnects?

I had hardly any with Stuff-Fibre and since migration to Slingshot I've found that my router has since migration lost its DHCP connection and I have to reset it. This never occurred previously

No issues for us. Using their RT-AX58U if that helps.

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#2950907 5-Aug-2022 12:49

mathewatm:

xlinknz:

Have any other ex stuff-fibre customers noticed that since being migrated to Slingshot that you get disconnects?

I had hardly any with Stuff-Fibre and since migration to Slingshot I've found that my router has since migration lost its DHCP connection and I have to reset it. This never occurred previously

No issues for us. Using their RT-AX58U if that helps.

@mathewatm

Thank you for the reply

Good to hear you're not having any disconnects FYI we have the RT-AC59U V2

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