After experiencing problems with their DDS connection to ISP Midland in early July 1996, IGRIN have now moved to use KCCS as their ISP.

Problems with Midland's radio connection to Waikato University, apparently after other radio connections were upgraded, caused extended periods where sites connecting via Midland were unable to connect to overseas locations or even NZ locations beyond others connecting to Midland.
Since Midland's problems were not easily or immediately fixed, this left IGRIN with many dissatisfied users who although prepared to accept a short period without international access, were less happy about the extended periods of no access over a 5 week period in June and July of this year.

In early July IGRIN was taken over by Frank de Swart and shortly thereafter arrangements were made to move their DDS link to KCCS in Auckland where IGRIN would use a channel in KCCS's stacked Wideband DDS connecting into a Cisco 4500 router.
IGRIN had been experiencing modem/router problems and a new Cisco 2511 was purchased (provided by KCCS) while the existing 2511 was serviced and upgraded, memory and software.

Richard Haakma working with Bryan Rentoul of IGRIN helped to set up an AXIL Sparc 5 system obtained by IGRIN to be their main computer system. An existing PC based Linux system was set up as a News server and a newsfeed obtained from KCCS.
An additional 10 phone lines were added in late July when IGRIN was relocatred to different premises in Whangerai.
Now with a total of 25 phone lines IGRIN is the largest ISP covering the Whangerai and Northland region of NZ.