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Forums › 2degrees (including Slingshot, Orcon, Flip, Stuff Fibre, MyRepublic, 2talk and Vocus) › Help with orcon internet!
Sean2842

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#183746 28-Oct-2015 20:47
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So heres the situation, I am with orcon but when I do a speed test it says im with Slingshot not sure what is up with that but thought that was a bit interesting.





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  #1415760 28-Oct-2015 20:51
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cant say I have seen it before but not really that surprising as they are all part of the same company...

edit : mine says callplus ....




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  #1415765 28-Oct-2015 20:54
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As hyperman points out, they are part of M2 group.

Would not surprise me if some rearrangement or sharing has gone on somewhere and crossed lines of who "owns" the ip.




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  #1415766 28-Oct-2015 20:55
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They are probably sharing the IP address pool - as above, they have the same parent company anyway.

If you do a WHOIS on your IP address (I am looking at the IP you used to post here) then some databases say it's Orcon.

IP databases are not 100% accurate so I wouldn't be worried about this at all.




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  #1415769 28-Oct-2015 20:56
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hyperman: cant say I have seen it before but not really that surprising as they are all part of the same company...

edit : mine says callplus ....


Yeah mine says callplus and then you click share and it says slingshot 





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  #1415770 28-Oct-2015 20:59
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freitasm: They are probably sharing the IP address pool - as above, they have the same parent company anyway.

If you do a WHOIS on your IP address (I am looking at the IP you used to post here) then some databases say it's Orcon.

IP databases are not 100% accurate so I wouldn't be worried about this at all.




Yeah I was just interested to know why it said that but thanks for the great explanation! 





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  #1416048 29-Oct-2015 11:34
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Thanks for the heads up. Will get this looked into :-)

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