Moving to Slingshot with ADSL2

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boby55

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#29557 11-Jan-2009 16:09

After 2 emails 1week apart I am yet to receive a email from slingshot to awnser the 2 following questions.

First of all, My exchange is currently being upgraded and will be ADSL2 enabled by the end on the month, I am 1km from the exchange so I will benifit from the upgrade, If I move onto the slingshot fs/fs plan will I be able to get ADSL2?

secondly, I wish to have my broadband with slingshot because I like the free offpeak (Heavy downloader 30+gb a month) but the billpayer has a cellphone contract with telecom which requires our landline with them, do I have to have my phoneline with slingshot If I want broadband,

I am currently with Xnet and like the idea of no phone required and free offpeak, but am leaving due to the poor speed.

Looking at the options I basicly have to choose from telecom's pro plan or slingshots fs/fs plan with free offpeak.

I know there are some slingshot users around mabey they could share some light?

Cheers Andrew

johnr

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#188810 11-Jan-2009 16:16

ADSL and landline will need to be with the same provider

John

boby55

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#188814 11-Jan-2009 16:51

johnr: ADSL and landline will need to be with the same provider

John

So I am right in saying I have to go to telecom?

No other isps like xnet that don't require phoneline for ADSL2 broadband

Sparky221

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#188815 11-Jan-2009 16:55

johnr: ADSL and landline will need to be with the same provider

John

Actually with Slingshot they don't...

So in answer to your question boby55, yes you can have Slingshot while continuing to use Telecom as your landline provider - I have the same thing currently. They also don't charge any extra on their Broadband plans because of this.

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#188816 11-Jan-2009 16:57

Sparky221:
johnr: ADSL and landline will need to be with the same provider

John

Actually with Slingshot they don't...

So in answer to your question boby55, yes you can have Slingshot while continuing to use Telecom as your landline provider - I have the same thing currently. They also don't charge any extra on their Broadband plans because of this. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}

:) thats good comming from a current user, now to find out whether or not there plans are adsl2 enabled

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#188832 11-Jan-2009 19:07

Same here - landline with telecom, broadband with slingshot.

Any FS/FS plan is adsl2+ compatible with slingshot, although you shouldnt expect adsl2 speeds except for between 4-6am.

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#188844 11-Jan-2009 20:35

Good to know my understanding was the adsl had to be with your landline provider. I knew dial up could be with another provider. Thanks

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#188884 12-Jan-2009 06:12

Slingshot and xnet were quite happy to be the adsl provider on telecom line, when I asked orcon and vodafone they wanted to put it on LLU, removing any choice of landline provider. That means no telecom, so no freedom - which is a huge money saver.

I am so suprised that the 2 LLU providers are allowed to get away with that anticompeditive behaviour but I guess the commerce commision is only anti telecom so since they are not telecom they can.

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#189023 12-Jan-2009 16:59

With orcon, they would have their own equipment in the exchange which means the wire gets unplugged from the telecom equipment and then plugged into the orcon equipment.

With the other isp's or orcon in other areas, telecom wholesales the dsl part of the line to other providers (by government order) and thats how you can have the telephone with telecom and broadband with another provider.

I think its vodafone that has just begun voluntary wholesaling with their equipment to slingshot - which slingshot has branded 'next big thing'

Like any other internet provider wanting to resell using telecom hardware in the exchange - they must form an agreement with isp and telecom. The isp's now have to form an agreement with orcon if they want to resell using orcon equipment and i doubt telecom would ever do this.

Resell is probably a bad word to describe it - they are renting a data link between the exchange equipment back to the isp base office.

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boby55

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#191926 25-Jan-2009 10:27

Making the move from xnet torrent to slingshot end of this month, Looking forward to the ADSL 2 speeds of mid next month

JUPITER2K

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#191938 25-Jan-2009 11:10

I have enquiry exactly the same thing.
As long as its the inferno plan you be ok i.e FS/FS

Detruire

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#191987 25-Jan-2009 16:52

I'm with Slingshot, and sync at ~5000k.

I can't max out my line via HTTP or P2P download for more than a couple of hours in the middle of the day.

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