Have posted a few comments after joining however this issue with Slingshot seems not to be just centred in Canterbury but they do seem to be having issues with the South Island in general,I did manage to talk to a tech at Slingshot who was very helpful and was quite open to that fact but they were doing their best to resolve the issues South Island customers were experiencing,at this moment I am getting very fast download speeds and for the time of night it is indeed not expected,remember all the issue's Telecom had and experienced with its XT network going down more than once,I expect such as that we will have to be patient as there are obviously quite a few teathing problems that need to be ironed out.