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Feedback regarding iPrimus is sharply divided, reflecting a mix of very satisfied long-term customers and highly frustrated users. On the positive side, many highlight fast connection speeds, smooth setup processes, and helpful interactions with specific support staff. Conversely, a portion of reviews points to difficulties reaching customer service, language barriers with offshore support, and dissatisfaction with recent administrative changes, such as the discontinuation of email hosting. Overall, while the core internet service performs well for many, administrative and support hurdles lead to varied customer experiences.
Staff were able to clearly explain the process involved with disconnecting from one address and reconnecting at our new address, and facilitated that process for us. Follow up emails and phone calls kept us updated.
good service but the technical support people are overseas and it was difficult understanding their accent. The internet service is okay, but I dont like the increase in monthly price.
primus decided to stop supporting email accounts. that means that all the contacts that I had now have to be told. when i asked them was told it was a business decicion
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Love you guys, Top promo, Top shelf, Diamond Quality Geezers Show details · 1
FTTN to FTTP internet – Shifted to iprimis FTTN connection initially and request for a free upgrade to FTTP connection, within 2days technicians arrived and complete the installation work in 2hrs. Can’t be more happy to have a fast internet connection. Show details
Happy – Waited a while for my box . But other than that it’s been amazing Show details
Great service, no complaints! – We have been with iPrimus for our internet and home phone for 20+ years and have no complaints. Rarely have dropouts and I think we have only needed to call them about 3 times in all those years. Always the customer service people are polite and pleasant and very helpful. The problem has always been fixed very promptly. Good value for a reasonable price. Show details · 1
WOW JUST WOW SUPERFAST – We were on the 100 speed before but struggled to get over 30 most times but we got direct to premises 200 nbn but our speed is getting close to 300mpbs I had to download a 3.5th file for a project last time took over a hour which not bad but took 2 min to get the 3.5gb at 26mpbs speed Even phone calls through voip is clearer no background noise Show details · 1
While the NBN is adequate, their Service is poor. You shouldn't have to wait 4 days for help after putting in a fault concerning lack of NBN. Am a long time customer of Iprimus, but their service and fault department has destroyed what was once a good NBN provider. You shouldn't have to wait hours on the phone to register an issue either. Am currently looking elsewhere.
Been with iPrimus since early 2000's, used to be a great ISP but not anymore. The internet service itself is still ok, rarely dropouts or any connection issues, however, since the big overhaul of everything last year the customer service and website/account experience has gone downhill to the point it's an absolute disgrace. Now in the last… Read more
couple of days we're getting emails from them stating they are discontinuing our email services, "We’re making some updates to how we deliver our services, and as part of that, iPrimus will no longer support your email service."
These emails (it seems one for each address) have a phone number in them, tried to ring it just after 6 pm QLD time this evening, got a message it's "outside of operational hours" even though the email says "We understand this is a significant change, and we’re here to support you. If you have questions, please read our FAQs or call us on 1300 936 035, Monday–Sunday, 9am–9pm AEST." And clicking the FAQ's link from the email the page responds with "The requested page could not be found."
Apparently the current email addresses can still be used, but you have to register with another company and pay them to do so...pretty ordinary treatment of loyal customers by a major ISP, seems they no longer want our money.
And they don't send us monthly invoices/receipts anymore either, instead we are supposed to login to our accounts and retrieve them from there, which is fine when the website works and we can actually login. I go to the login page for my account, enter my username and password, do the 2 factor authority thing and get the code sent to my email address put the code in the box and click 'Login' or whatever it says, then always seem to get the result "No active services are present for this account. Please contact helpdesk." Helpdesk seems to nowdays be a waste of time, very difficult to understand some of the staff and the background noise at times is that loud it's impossible to even hear whoever is trying to help.
If I click the "Need help logging in?" link on the 'something went wrong' pic, (reached by clicking the link to it from the email) it gives no help whatsoever about logging in, it just says "Login to" and then shows different things that you can do once logged in. I notice they never fail to draw money from my account every month though...
This sort of rot has been going on since the overhaul last year, following their help or FAQ links just goes round in circles and gets nowhere, where once it used to contain good troubleshooting information.
Just tried to upload a saved email (43.0 kB .eml file, saved by SeaMonkey) to the "Attach private proof of purchase" and got a message "Symfony.Component.HttpKernel.Exception.BadRequestHttpException"
Their online chat is finally working, yesterday (27/04/2026) I was able to get assistance via the… Read more
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Have now been sitting on the phone for an hour waiting for the help line to respond. Absolutely terrible customer service. Show details
Follow-up · Ditched Iprimus. Costs went up, service kept going down.
A once-great ISP now nothing more than another Vocus boardroom acquisition with almost no Tech Support or even any concern for their plummiting reputation. I've been with iprimus for years and things were great for most of that time. But recently… Read more
our business website (hosted elsewhere) locked us out of its Admin section. Turns out iprimus, without consulting or even notifying us, had changed our static IP address to dynamic IP addressing, This left our WP website thinking that our daily-changing IP addresses were hacking attempts.
So we called up their Tech Support and after three of four unanswered attempts finally spoke to someone who said they would change it back to Static IP as before, but only for an extra $5/month. After I responded unfavourably to this sort of extortion, he told me his attempts to make the change were unsuccessful and that he would escalate my Saturday Tech Support request and have someone fix it by Monday morning. Five days later, no contact from them and nobody answers that Tech Support phone when I attempt to call them. Over the next few weeks we will update the many businesses that have our iprimus email address as our only email contact, with our gmail address details. That will leave us free to shop and change ISPs in future based on their performance, rather than have them hold us hostage to a tethered email address and their lack of service,
Spoiler Alert: If tis is your experience as well, forget dodo, Challenge Networks, Amcom, Nextgen Networks and Club Telco as Vocus own them as well and the same boardroom greed will like drive the same lack of service.
Follow-up · • Have you found any ISPs with better support since then? Being 80 years old and almost deaf, offshore call centres are impossible for me. And the more I ask them to slow down and speak clearly, the faster they go as they are being clocked on each call. Aussie Broadband provide a locally-based tech support and in keeping with their name,… Read more
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The service I requested was satisfactorily and quickly dealt with.
Follow-up · The signal strength is generally OK, but there are complete loss of signal, down to zero, particularly at night from time to time which can be very annoying when watching TV or streaming video.
Positive reviews
I've been with iinet for 11 years and i hated every second, so many fights to get the speeds I was paying for until I had enough but before I left i planed everything, I did my homework read so many reviews I decided to go with Iprimus as they were the only isp that had a 5 star ratings and I was with them 20 years ago and I never had an issue, So… Read more
I signed up on 1 of their premium figure plan, they sent me a new Gen 6 modem which all I had to do was when my connection came up they text me to connect it to the NBN I didn't haft to do a thing, I now have speeds faster than my plan and it really fast to bring up web sites im so happy I went with them, in fairness to iinet refunded me for unused time which was a surprise, Iprimus is way better and its been so painless connecting with them and ill be staying with them longer than 11 years I didn't know they are partner with iprimus my review is base on a genuine review ii
The service I received was excellent but I was without landline and internet for 4 days. Hopefully I will get a reduction in my monthly bill. My internet usually drops out at least once a day, hopefully this has also been fixed
Had difficulty logging onto my Toolbox account because I wasn't aware the account needed to be reset (probably my fault). But once I got through to help desk, the iprimus response and remedy was very quick. I was looking to change providers, but I have been with iprimus for about 20 years without any issues so I decided to stay with them. Show details
Negative reviews
Initiated conversation to determine what the 500mbps offering from iprimus was but was then encouraged to buy the service and was rushed into it. Went ahead largely because I am already an iprimus customer.
Have been a loyal customer for 17 years, this time they have lost the plot. Fancy not doing emails, happy to take your money every month. Try to ring them and when you finally get through you cannot understand what they are saying as they have trouble speaking english. Have now changed to another provider. Do your ground work before comitting
Shocking. Customer for 15 years but they have lost the plot. They are no longer hosting iprimus emails and are shortly no longer support old emails. Unreal. They take forever to answer a call to help. They refer existing customers to a new messaging service (to keep your email address going) but their own links don’t work. So it’s impossible to… Read more
transfer your email to the new hosting company. Not acceptable. You can’t reply to their emails. Seriously horrible service and business.
Recent reviews
Support is poor. Offshore and difficult to understand. Their billing and payment systems are archaic - they force you to direct debit and charge you for it (if using a card). They do not provide any option to receive a bill that you can pay via BPay… Read more
or credit card. They tell you the direct debit date will always be X, but it's not, then they charge you for late fees if you haven't put money in for an earlier date. I've had to reboot my modem 8 times today because the internet keeps dropping out. No point calling their support team - it's a Sunday.
Follow-up · Since my original review in April, when I'd reported continual drop-outs, it took 5 more calls (one where I had to speak very forcefully and angrily) for them to take the problem seriously and actually escalate it properly. Since the escalation, one of their better support people ([Name Removed]) has kept me updated (even during a period of days… Read more
Sal was very patient and helpful - she enabled me to make sense of your email about changes iPrimus is making to their service leading to a satisfactory outcome. Thank you Sal.
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Terrible billing and customer service. I was charged twice after the cancellation. I had to wait for 15 min on the phone twice to talk to the billing department. Show details
My internet went down, & when after turning it off then back on without success rang iPrimus. Spoke with Ash who was extremely helpful & sorted out the problem. Thank you Ash Show details
100% reliable connection. Never experienced a dropout in 24 years. Only issues have been with the recent change of website and they were many. Eventually they were sorted out but it took a long time and iPrimus did the best they could. Recent… Read more
advice from iPrimus is that they are closing down their email service. Worst news I have had in a long time. Utterly devastating. Never again will there be such a good email service with the best technical service that can be found anywhere in Australia. This ends an era which I would never have wanted, but at least they gave some notice.
Follow-up · After many years of exemplary, polite and knowledgeable customer service to me, iiPrimus have recently gone downhill. It began when they changed their website and their system would no longer accept my sign-in details. Each problem would take days to fix and then, when I tried to sign in again, the same problem was still there. However, the way… Read more
Terrible customer service based in a non‑English‑speaking region. The internet was intermittent, support wait times were always long, and communication was difficult. I switched to Starlink for twenty dollars less and double the speed. Show details
Absolute rubbish ISP. Continually drops out. Says "connected without internet" all the time. And it's even more frustrating when you can't understand the support team over the phone. Lift your game Iprimus and fix everyone's issues.
I inadvertently typed my password in the iPrimus address section, consequently, I was unable to reach iPrimus. Technical support attempted to rectify this action, which can only be corrected by Gmaie (Google). It is a very good example how careful we must be in typing in the correct email address and pass word. I would like to express my thanks to… Read more
the iPrimus technician whom managed my case for the professional and diligent manner he tried to correct my problem.
The Initial Kaon DG2144 (Orange) DSL model failed as it could not handle the 500/47 system. The replacement was a Kaon DG2144 (Blue) NBN model and this handles the 500/47 and one laptop, one desktop and one mobile phone all have high or maximum transfer rates on a speed test Show details
Hit and miss with the speeds constant buffeting and numerous phone calls to try and rectify, I do tho understand it’s a nbn issue in the Adelaide hills so not entirely I primus fault Show details
Follow-up · Now at a point of changing to starlink $30 a month cheaper
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