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#138870 20-Jan-2014 15:18
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I'm thinking about changing from TNZ 150GB to the Naked Unlimiyted 90$ plan.
And as I'm heavily using P2P I'd like to know if Slingshot is throttling P2P traffic or uses any other type of shaping on the plan?
How is the speed in general on this plan?
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  #970038 20-Jan-2014 15:18
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Hello... Our robot found some keywords in your post, so here is an automated reply with some important things to note regarding broadband speeds.

 



 

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  #970054 20-Jan-2014 15:38
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How about Bigpipe? I'm on them and they're excellent.




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  #970061 20-Jan-2014 15:50
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michaelmurfy: How about Bigpipe? I'm on them and they're excellent.


Shame their website is just a white space, guess they are still in trial mode on their webspace software too....




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  #970062 20-Jan-2014 15:50
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michaelmurfy: How about Bigpipe? I'm on them and they're excellent.

the website is down :-). 

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SCM:
michaelmurfy: How about Bigpipe? I'm on them and they're excellent.


Shame their website is just a white space, guess they are still in trial mode on their webspace software too....


We've had some reports of Ad-blockers causing this issue.  We're looking into it.

Meantime, whitelisting our site (or turning off adblock) will fix it (we don't have ads on our site)




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#975611 28-Jan-2014 10:01
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Hi guys

What about topic starter's questions? Any opinions?

I have just connected to Naked Unlimited $90 and have some troubles with p2p traffic - any torrent in uTorrent stay with "Connecting to peers" status and nothing else happen. But there is not a word about p2p traffic throttling in terms and conditions and I'm confused - is it my only trouble (modem config, my hands or something else) or it is a hidden slingshot policy on that plan.



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  #975661 28-Jan-2014 11:00
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Im on Slingshot Unlimited Plus and my P2P speeds fluctuate between 300KB's and 2.2MB's.
There doesn't seem to be any degradation in speeds on other services whilst torrenting either.

I've only been with Slingshot for a month or so, but I'm very happy with the service so far.

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  #975671 28-Jan-2014 11:08
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adresdendoll: Im on Slingshot Unlimited Plus and my P2P speeds fluctuate between 300KB's and 2.2MB's.
There doesn't seem to be any degradation in speeds on other services whilst torrenting either.

I've only been with Slingshot for a month or so, but I'm very happy with the service so far.


It's a different plan. There are two plans with homeline - Unlimited One $99 (without P2P) and Unlimited Plus $109 (with P2P). But I'm on Naked Unlimited $90 - and I'm wondering what about p2p on this particular plan.

Thanks anyway for your reply.

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  #975729 28-Jan-2014 12:00
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Hi,

I have just been on the Slingshot Naked Unlimited plan for the past two years in my flat in Wellington and I can vouch for them. We were doing around 250 GB/month and I had no trouble with my torrents. In fact, half my torrents connected to the Slingshot cache (which I found rather odd...) so sometimes I was downloading at full line rate.

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  #975790 28-Jan-2014 12:46
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My mother is with slingshot, while her connection speed is 5 x what I get, her download speeds are only 1/2 what I get.
I can only summise that Slingshot heavily throttle P2P traffic.
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  #976191 28-Jan-2014 20:05
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 so sometimes I was downloading at full line rate.

Only sometimes?! That doesn't sound good to me. I'm on Telecom 150GB plan and most of my torrents are downloaded on a full line speed at any time (the same or even better of what speedtest shows me).
And I'm pretty sure that the files are comming from the overseas peers not the local cash or something.

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