Latest Broadband Reviews

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01 July 2017

Rob Parkin 3.0

We have been a customer for 3 years but over the last six months speed has been really slow in the weekend and at nights - I'm talking under 0.5mbps. During day it is up around 12-14mbps. A call has been opened with Lightwire for the last six months with no action taking place. We are in the process of looking at other providers.

Pros

Fast during day

Cons

Very slow at night time and weekends

30 June 2017

Dr. Waldemar Michael Babylon 2.2

All broadband plans and providers in NZ offer extremely expensive products and to be honest quite arrogant personal approach (like elsewhere in NZ anyway). The prices compare to those from so called 3-th world countries. Anyway nothing like what we would like to be seen as - developed world.
The advice and approach from broadbandcompare.co.nz was surprisingly nice and polite - thank you.

Pros

I have not started using it yet. I went for 40GB, 40NZD a months plan and purchsed that over expensive modem for 99NZD. God help that it at least does the job satisfactory!

Cons

Over expensive, pure rip-off, like all the other offers. Obviously NZ needs open market, free and healthy (no "mafia") competitors.

29 June 2017

Former user 3.4

My advise, stay away! I had a connection with them which was dropping all the time. So I decided to switch to another ISP. I gave them one month prior notice, to cancel my account which is as per their policy. So I paid for the next month and asked them to end the service after that period. They confirmed that's ok, but actually terminated my account 20 days before the end of the paid period without any notice.

I wasted month, trying fix the internet problem and in the end ...read more

Pros

Cheap

Cons

Bad service

28 June 2017

Simone Graham 2.0

For the past week our internet has been patchy, coming on and off, both on wifi and on the wired connection to the PC. We keep rebooting the modem but it doesn't fix the problem. We have naked broadband, unlimited data and although Spark gave us a good deal (lower than advertised) to keep us as customers, if it doesn't actually do the job then it's not good value.
We can't get hold of anyone at the service centre to help so far. Super frustrating. So we're now shopping for a ...read more

Pros

It was already set up.

Cons

It doesn't work. The wifi is patchy and the service keeps coming on and off, which makes chrome-casting movies and TV shows a frustrating nightmare.
This has now been ongoing for about a week.

27 June 2017

Paulette 3.4

Internet cuts out all the time

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Bad internet

26 June 2017

Tahnee 1.2

Bigpipe seemed good for review,however once moving into house we had to wait a month for a connection!! We gave the expected move dates and just to get hold of them was impossible it says 2hours we will email back then 48hours later. after a month of being without internet and everyday me driving to a wifi spot to email them they would reply with have you tried plugging it in another wall etc,so we brought a new modem because they said and still same problem Not Working! Extr ...read more

Pros

None

Cons

Days of wait for replys
No actual help
Also connection very slow
Misinformed information given
No resolutions given

21 June 2017

William 5.2

Was fast with connection date and change over. Was mislead to what you could do. Their network is NATed. so you will get a internal IPv4 address from their network not a actual external address. So forwarding rules or a dmz on your router are redundant. i had my own vpn and plex server which i cannot access externally now. So if you host your own development web server or anything avoid them.

Pros

Fast and affordable

Cons

Internal NAT.
No External Address
3-4 internal hops till it gets out to external addresses.

21 June 2017

Cheryl Meadows 8.4

I have been with slingshot broadband for over 8 years and the Broadband has been consistently good.
I haven't had to use their support service, so I don't know how good it is.

Pros

The price is competitive
The monthly Data rollover is an awesome feature
Internet service is reliable
Speed is about right for the type of Broadband I have.

Cons

None that I know of

19 June 2017

Mario 3.8

Long sob story about loyal customer mistreated.

Technically, my service has been plagued by semi-regular disconnects during peak hours and wildly inaccurate data metering.

I have also been told no VDSL despite being in range of the local exchange, and another flat in the block having it from a separate provider.

Pros

Cheap 12 months
Consistent speeds (though not the fastest)
Fast connection to new place (moved twice)

Cons

Frequent disconnects
Questionable data metering
Non-transparent data billing for overages
Horrible phone support
Customer Account portal didn't work half the time