Efibre Macroom

MrLucidLJ · 22-07-2014 2:15pm #1

Hi there I had a question I would really like answering. I have looked on the rollout map for my area and says that efibre is available in macroom but when you do a line check or ask online support not available yet or we don't know when it will be there. I was told it would behere in February then pushed back to April, May,June and now July and still no sign. Will it be pushed back longer or what's the story? I would like to know whats such the big delay because I was told there were network vans in the area a few weeks ago upgrading lines downtown but when will they be coming to Masseytown area? What is the sub company doing the upgrade for efibre I don't think its directly eircom because when you ring up they can't even find out from engineers either. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated just really want fibre in something that is long over due across Ireland but could help to start another boom period again

ED E · 22-07-2014 2:34pm

As per the rollout thread the cabs go live 6th of august.

MrLucidLJ · 22-07-2014 2:42pm

ED E wrote: »

As per the rollout thread the cabs go live 6th of august.

Do you live in the area or work for eircom? So Masseytown will defo be connected on the 6th or by the 6th? Thanks for helping so far

ED E · 22-07-2014 5:21pm

Neither, I'm just a networking nerd.

Looking at the map you might be direct fed. If thats the case you'll be waiting on Comreg to release direct fed to be sold by eircom wholesale. No date for that yet.

Depending on where exactly your house is in that area you're looking at around the 30Mb mark.

Probably is direct fed so you wont get it for at least a couple months, though most of the town will have it in a few weeks.

MrLucidLJ · 22-07-2014 9:03pm

Thanks for all the information and a couple of months I've been told by the end of month or as you said around first week off august. I was sold Vodafone up to 100mbs now your telling me 30mbs is alli will get sure that's barely better then what I'm getting which is 15mbs. Why would my line be so poor and take till September October to here?

ED E · 22-07-2014 10:49pm

MrLucidLJ wrote: »

Thanks for all the information and a couple of months I've been told by the end of month or as you said around first week off august. I was sold Vodafone up to 100mbs now your telling me 30mbs is alli will get sure that's barely better then what I'm getting which is 15mbs. Why would my line be so poor and take till September October to here?

Distance. If you live at the Masseytown crossroads (the V in the main road) thats 1.4km from the exchange. eFibre (VDSL2) only goes to 2.2km Max so you're at the slower end.

Your download may not be much better but your upload will be which is good for gaming and skype etc so still worth upgrading most of the time.

TheDriver · 23-07-2014 1:48am

30 is twice 15 and unless you are downloading lots of torrents, its a great speed. Once your upload and ping times are good, your service will be satisfactory. Its not all about dl speed

MrLucidLJ · 23-07-2014 9:43am

TheDriver wrote: »

30 is twice 15 and unless you are downloading lots of torrents, its a great speed. Once your upload and ping times are good, your service will be satisfactory. Its not all about dl speed

I'm sorry 30 I's not fibre high fast broadband I download from Sky on Demand and stream on YouTube and Netflix usually in HD. I think I was totally mislead when sold the package I was told up to 100mbs. Now of course I knew I wouldn't get that but to get 30 percent of that are you kidding me. Minimum I would be happy with is 50 and realistically it should be close to 75. How can any one truely say 30mbs is fibre and not only that its not even close to what's being advertised.

ED E · 23-07-2014 11:49am

None of its fibre really, its fibre to the cab not fibre to the home.

Its your only option really so id still take it if I were you. If you want more move into town.

MrLucidLJ · 23-07-2014 12:58pm

ED E wrote: »

None of its fibre really, its fibre to the cab not fibre to the home.

Its your only option really so id still take it if I were you. If you want more move into town.

Can I ask you a question do you know much about this ESB Vodafone joint venture to run fibre through the lines that way would it come to a town like macroom or is that years away?

ED E · 23-07-2014 1:48pm

BK has researched that more, but its a long way off and we dont have many details yet.

Nonoperational · 26-07-2014 1:42pm

Surely at this stage people are giving up on the "I've been mis-sold" line. Copper backed products are always "up to". It's really not a secret anymore. There is nothing anyone can do about it, it's not like there's somebody deliberately doing it to annoy people!

MrLucidLJ · 26-07-2014 2:04pm

Its poor advertisement though. Getting 30 percent off something is really poor I'd expect bare minimum of 50 I'd be happy with that because its near 3.5x my current, double is not good enough what so ever. Realistically I would have preferred it to be 75- near full amount. Lets say you paid to get some work done and someone only did 30 percent of the work and advertised he/she could do up to 100 percent off work but because of limitations it might be closer to 75 you would be a bit annoyed they couldn't do the 100 but if they got 75 plus percent done you wouldn't be really pissed as if they done 30 which is poor. Just think if these companies are rolling out a product make it damn good so that it doesnt all have to be dug up in a few years to improve the service and make it last 10 years plus. Are you from Macroom yourself.

TheDriver · 26-07-2014 2:25pm

I hear what your saying however i don't think anyone out there actually believes they are getting the max of the up to speed. The websites also tell you nowadays what speed you are actually capable of getting.

MrLucidLJ · 26-07-2014 2:34pm

I just don't see the point of poor advertising I hope I get more then 30 ill take 50 but if I get 30 or less they are going to be getting a strong call from me and getting an earful because its not what I was promised.

ED E · 26-07-2014 4:13pm

If you're so pissed at 30 stay on ADSL....

Eircoms options were give you VDSl at whatever speed or ftth in 5-10 years. They can't advertise with "100m at 200m, 80 at 350m, 70 at 500m......", it'll always be up to X.

MrLucidLJ · 26-07-2014 7:34pm

I'm just saying why say up to such a speed state more clearly if you are further away from exchanges. its kind of crazy that even if you are a mile or more away you lose near 70 percent of what the maximum potential that's all I'm saying.

rottie 11 · 27-07-2014 12:06pm

I agree with you, im supposed to get 24meg and most days im only getting 5 , but with efibre you get better upload speed and ping , am i right? Im also waiting months for efibre and everytime i ring they say a couple more weeks. Sick of it now

MrLucidLJ · 27-07-2014 5:43pm

rottie 11 wrote: »

I agree with you, im supposed to get 24meg and most days im only getting 5 , but with efibre you get better upload speed and ping , am i right? Im also waiting months for efibre and everytime i ring they say a couple more weeks. Sick of it now

Couldn't agree more with what you said there as well. We were told months ago it was meant to be here but been waiting 4-5 months extra and maybe could be longer still not here even though it says on the Fibre map its here in this town. Your getting poor speeds if you are only getting 5mb from a 24mb potential are you from Macroom or another area. From my understanding the further away you are from the exchange you get slow speeds. Upload would be nice if it was faster but Id rather have faster download speeds so that there is never lag doing multiple things in my house like Streaming, in HD with 2 or 3 things as well as Skyping as well. Thanks for the comment.

cupthehand1 · 29-07-2014 9:10am

MrLucidLJ wrote: »

Couldn't agree more with what you said there as well. We were told months ago it was meant to be here but been waiting 4-5 months extra and maybe could be longer still not here even though it says on the Fibre map its here in this town. Your getting poor speeds if you are only getting 5mb from a 24mb potential are you from Macroom or another area. From my understanding the further away you are from the exchange you get slow speeds. Upload would be nice if it was faster but Id rather have faster download speeds so that there is never lag doing multiple things in my house like Streaming, in HD with 2 or 3 things as well as Skyping as well. Thanks for the comment.

Sorry for hijacking but hypothetically speaking say if you lived 2km from the exchange but the cabinet was only 70m from your door then would be expecting to get an awful lot closer to the 100mb mark when efibre arrives?

MrLucidLJ · 29-07-2014 2:00pm

cupthehand1 wrote: »

Sorry for hijacking but hypothetically speaking say if you lived 2km from the exchange but the cabinet was only 70m from your door then would be expecting to get an awful lot closer to the 100mb mark when efibre arrives?

Im not exactly sure of that tbh the cabinets are those green things must try and look how far that is away from my house.

MrLucidLJ · 06-08-2014 3:39pm

ED E wrote: »

As per the rollout thread the cabs go live 6th of august.

Is there any update on when the cabinet goes live for my area?

ED E · 06-08-2014 3:41pm

http://fibrerollout.ie/where-and-when/

See for yourself, pushed back a week to the 13th.

MrLucidLJ · 06-08-2014 4:01pm

Are you sure 100 percent everytime I call either Eircom & Vodafone have no dates and when you ask they can't even find out or ask an engineer lol thanks for your help dude.

MrLucidLJ · 06-08-2014 4:10pm

ED E wrote: »

As per the rollout thread the cabs go live 6th of august.

It says Im around 1km from the exchange max from looking at the map and mapping it out will that increase the chance of boosting the speeds up then? Also had a quick question is there a sub contracted company that are doing all the networking for Eircom or is it themselves doing it?

dbit · 07-08-2014 1:27pm

As per the site exchanges are live 13/Aug , but hold your horses if you happen to hang off teh main exchange in the village MRMA then your in for a bit of a suprise as they havent deployed LLU yet - so 2015 for anyone in the middle of the town . If the line checker is coming back with its live int he town but not yet enabled for your address then your same as me hanging off the main exchange and not scheduled for deploy unitl sometime in 2015 while your neighbours sit back and enjoy moderately ok speeds . ITs a farce and not true fiber . Im holding out now for ESB networks and vodafone delivering 1000MB to the home over the next year or two .

( Friend in Cavan is very very happy with stability and speeds thus far on ESB test phase)

MrLucidLJ · 07-08-2014 6:16pm

dbit wrote: »

As per the site exchanges are live 13/Aug , but hold your horses if you happen to hang off teh main exchange in the village MRMA then your in for a bit of a suprise as they havent deployed LLU yet - so 2015 for anyone in the middle of the town . If the line checker is coming back with its live int he town but not yet enabled for your address then your same as me hanging off the main exchange and not scheduled for deploy unitl sometime in 2015 while your neighbours sit back and enjoy moderately ok speeds . ITs a farce and not true fiber . Im holding out now for ESB networks and vodafone delivering 1000MB to the home over the next year or two .

( Friend in Cavan is very very happy with stability and speeds thus far on ESB test phase)

From looking at the exchanges on the list, I actually looked at the map wrong we are less then 300m from this exchange MRM1__009 which is great as it goes live on 13th. So your saying even though it may go live at this stage, we might not be necessarily get it straight away then? The Vodafone sales man said once you here exchanges are live call up Vodafone and they'll send someone out to upgrade you. What is LLU exactly is that not sure what that is, so from that exchange we might get the service sooner then the end of the year?
I totally agree from the bits I read about the Vodafone/ ESB Fibre deal that was struck last month and the rollout planned all going well this country can really benefit looks amazing to see what kind of speeds were Cavan getting from the trials?

suaimhneas_de · 10-08-2014 6:02pm

Hi..

I live in Raleigh North (within the efibre map on the eircom web page) ' so I had a look at the fibrerollout website and it claims that I'm 1.7km from the cabinet at SullaneWeirs.. However if I look at where my line comes from, it seems to be going all over the world to get to me in Raleigh North...

Looking at the main Killarney road, there doesn't seem to be a direct eircom line running along the road, Me thinks that the line seems to head off up codrum and come back down around again.. Which means that I'm probably around 5KM from the cabinet. Just wondering if this is the case or not..?

At the moment I'm getting a max of 5MB on my NGB line..

Would anyone hazard a guess as to what speed I could expect to get via eFibre...

Maybe the ESB 100m is my only hope of a decent line...

Thanks...

MrLucidLJ · 10-08-2014 6:23pm

suaimhneas_de wrote: »

Hi..

I live in Raleigh North (within the efibre map on the eircom web page) ' so I had a look at the fibrerollout website and it claims that I'm 1.7km from the cabinet at SullaneWeirs.. However if I look at where my line comes from, it seems to be going all over the world to get to me in Raleigh North...

Looking at the main Killarney road, there doesn't seem to be a direct eircom line running along the road, Me thinks that the line seems to head off up codrum and come back down around again.. Which means that I'm probably around 5KM from the cabinet. Just wondering if this is the case or not..?

At the moment I'm getting a max of 5MB on my NGB line..

Would anyone hazard a guess as to what speed I could expect to get via eFibre...

Maybe the ESB 100m is my only hope of a decent line...

Thanks...

Some of the other guys who helped me out in the thread seem to know more but if you are over 1km from the exchange then it seems that you will lose some speeds alright but the less you are away from then you get improved speeds. Did you check the link for the exchanges in the thread which one are you the nearest to you the name of it?

ED E · 10-08-2014 7:58pm

suaimhneas_de wrote: »

Hi..

I live in Raleigh North (within the efibre map on the eircom web page) ' so I had a look at the fibrerollout website and it claims that I'm 1.7km from the cabinet at SullaneWeirs.. However if I look at where my line comes from, it seems to be going all over the world to get to me in Raleigh North...

Looking at the main Killarney road, there doesn't seem to be a direct eircom line running along the road, Me thinks that the line seems to head off up codrum and come back down around again.. Which means that I'm probably around 5KM from the cabinet. Just wondering if this is the case or not..?

At the moment I'm getting a max of 5MB on my NGB line..

Would anyone hazard a guess as to what speed I could expect to get via eFibre...

Maybe the ESB 100m is my only hope of a decent line...

Thanks...

If you're getting 5 at most you're 3.75km, most likely less than 3.5 from the exchange. If to reach the cab it would be 5km you aren't through that cab.

Line may be underground on the main road.

Either way sounds like none of this will benefit you.

Onthe3rdDay · 10-08-2014 8:03pm

Can anyone say what the very minimum that efibre will offer, if it says your area is in the efibre map but you're between 1.5 and 2 km away from the cabinet?

MrLucidLJ · 10-08-2014 8:10pm

Onthe3rdDay wrote: »

Can anyone say what the very minimum that efibre will offer, if it says your area is in the efibre map but you're between 1.5 and 2 km away from the cabinet?

I asked the same question about speeds depending on distance away they gave me a rough estimate of like 30mbs which is not good enough for me when its up to 100mbs. But from relooking at the map I am only like 300m from the exchange roughly so might get 50mb or more now. Thats the best answer I can give from what the other lads told me in the thread they know a lot more then I do lol

ED E · 10-08-2014 8:20pm

Onthe3rdDay wrote: »

Can anyone say what the very minimum that efibre will offer, if it says your area is in the efibre map but you're between 1.5 and 2 km away from the cabinet?

The threshold to be systematically possible is 7mb, that can be up to 2.2km on a GOOD line. But, I don't know if they're selling to those lines right now.

suaimhneas_de · 11-08-2014 8:48am

ED E wrote: »

If you're getting 5 at most you're 3.75km, most likely less than 3.5 from the exchange. If to reach the cab it would be 5km you aren't through that cab.

Line may be underground on the main road.

Either way sounds like none of this will benefit you.

> Is there a way to determine which Cabinet I'm connected to (just wondering if its MRM1_003) AND

> Is there a way to determine distance to the Cabinet (and not as the crow flies via the fibrerollout map !!!)

Thanks...

ED E · 11-08-2014 11:30am

suaimhneas_de wrote: »

> Is there a way to determine which Cabinet I'm connected to (just wondering if its MRM1_003) AND

> Is there a way to determine distance to the Cabinet (and not as the crow flies via the fibrerollout map !!!)

Only a local eircom technician could tell you.

Google maps running via roads gives a pretty good estimate, but theres no way to measure it until a cab is finished and the prequals are run. Based on the prequals you can estimate loop length.

jay93 · 11-08-2014 1:24pm

I'm only between 200-300m from a cab here in Duleek Meath the efibre map showed the area as been activated in August now it's saying Jan-Apr 2015 WTF they have installed the cabs all over the town but yet its been pushed back so far i wasn't holding my breath at getting it this month i thought maybe October at the latest .

On the eircom wholesale pages it shows the cabinets as Fibre build commenced completion work in progress it also shows 2 cabinets that havn't even been installed yet.

Was hoping for fibre soon but oh well guess it was too good to be true.
getting 14.5 Mb/s off DSL right now some people are getting near 20Mb/s downloads are fine it's the upload speed that kills me it's too slow always is on DSL .

MrLucidLJ · 12-08-2014 1:44am

jay93 wrote: »

I'm only between 200-300m from a cab here in Duleek Meath the efibre map showed the area as been activated in August now it's saying Jan-Apr 2015 WTF they have installed the cabs all over the town but yet its been pushed back so far i wasn't holding my breath at getting it this month i thought maybe October at the latest .

On the eircom wholesale pages it shows the cabinets as Fibre build commenced completion work in progress it also shows 2 cabinets that havn't even been installed yet.

Was hoping for fibre soon but oh well guess it was too good to be true.
getting 14.5 Mb/s off DSL right now some people are getting near 20Mb/s downloads are fine it's the upload speed that kills me it's too slow always is on DSL .

I feel your pain brother its been like that for me for near 6 months where it keep changes now I hope with the one near me which is same like a few 100 meters that I will be able to get really decent speeds. I too would like the increase in uploads as well as you said its poor on our current lines download speeds are decent but would want triple at least once fibre comes. I hope that it comes for you soon dude and your not waiting till next year.

jay93 · 13-08-2014 2:20pm

Thanks bro I hope so too getting tired of eircoms lies on the dates of activation vodafone sent us a letter on our bill a few months back saying fibre would be coming soon but it's still not here .. Yeah it's bad with the upload because if someone is uploading something it's impossible to use the Internet this seems to be the case with all DSL. I too hope that you get fibre soon too

for now I can deal with my DSL as its close to 15Mb/s but I would prefer to have fibre ..

MrLucidLJ · 13-08-2014 4:58pm

jay93 wrote: »

Thanks bro I hope so too getting tired of eircoms lies on the dates of activation vodafone sent us a letter on our bill a few months back saying fibre would be coming soon but it's still not here .. Yeah it's bad with the upload because if someone is uploading something it's impossible to use the Internet this seems to be the case with all DSL. I too hope that you get fibre soon too for now I can deal with my DSL as its close to 15Mb/s but I would prefer to have fibre ..

I tried to go on Live chat today with Eircom asking them this simple question. I said about how the exchange goes live today with eFibre when will the actual service become available they said we will let you know as we can not give you a date. Its a pure joke they are dreadful. They should have dates on when exchanges go live and then when they will get homes connected to that exchange not this wait and see bs. Been waiting 6 months. Im happy enough on what we have at least we have a decent connection but been waiting so long for this guess Ill be lucky to get it as a crimbo present lol

MrLucidLJ · 13-08-2014 5:15pm

ED E wrote: »

The threshold to be systematically possible is 7mb, that can be up to 2.2km on a GOOD line. But, I don't know if they're selling to those lines right now.

I had a quick question, with the Exchange I told you that is near me that is meant to go live today with eFibre service how long do you think it will take before it actually comes to my house does it take ages then after for it to become available?

ED E · 13-08-2014 8:18pm

MrLucidLJ wrote: »

I had a quick question, with the Exchange I told you that is near me that is meant to go live today with eFibre service how long do you think it will take before it actually comes to my house does it take ages then after for it to become available?

Are you connected through a cab or direct to the exchange do you think?

Edit scrolled back, cab 9 is what you meant. If it went ready for order today installs will start within 28days normally AFAIK.

dbit · 15-08-2014 10:53am

MrLucidLJ call eircom ask them what exchange you are terminated too its the only way to be sure , IE some people along a main road may have direct connect and no LLU (Local Loop unbundling - this is how they handle the hand over from old broadband connection to the new one with no disruption to customers) yet decided upon and thus a further delay, yet others nearby can have it possibly due to more recent cable runs and age of certain estates. A towns cable infrastructure will not be the same in all areas and older residences may have older direct runs to exchanges.

In my situation i guestimate and by using snr line attenuation calculators (Google them online these are again best effort guess as cabling can be a factor if bad or damaged cables exist) That i am around 1km - 1.2 km away from my exchange in macroom which is MRMA (Nested in the village exchange building) - last 3 days they now show an orange indicator for a planned green box and this unit is marked to be installed outside the door of the main Macroom exchange - if your on MRMA or MRMB then that one will be for you and a delay to be expected.

One thing i did do was pull every copper connection from where it comes into the house and pear the wires to expose nice shiny copper as dull copper indicates oxidation and thus line interference. Do this for every link in the chain the faceplate and main internal box . ( also had an old run in the house that ran upstairs and it had, at some stage a sharp dent in the line and this was slowing my connection previous to jumping up to 17MB download.)

You want to lower your attenuation and increase SNR - I get 17MB Down on NGA but have to wait for MRMA to be provided with LLU solution from ericom to then be signed off by Comreg.

Buddy in Cavan did say in the start it was down more than up but now ESB and Yoda phone have implemented some more units to fix that between him and his CPE. His speeds sit nicely at around 80 MB down but i think hes been put on a stability profile - haven't had the chance to visit and look at the gear in use - nor do we know His distances . ESB use huge fat core copper so distances can be much farther on this system - and faster to boot.

You may need Eircom to tell you directly you are terminated to MRM_009 as i ahve two of those green boxes within 700 meters of me either side but no efiber for me.

ED E · 15-08-2014 11:21am

dbit wrote: »

MrLucidLJ call eircom ask them what exchange you are terminated too its the only way to be sure , IE some people along a main road may have direct connect and no LLU (Local Loop unbundling - this is how they handle the hand over from old broadband connection to the new one with no disruption to customers) yet decided upon and thus a further delay, yet others nearby can have it possibly due to more recent cable runs and age of certain estates. A towns cable infrastructure will not be the same in all areas and older residences may have older direct runs to exchanges.

They wont be able to tell any more than the websites number checker will. If his cable path is direct fed only local eircom wholesale staff will know.

dbit wrote: »

In my situation i guestimate and by using snr line attenuation calculators (Google them online these are again best effort guess as cabling can be a factor if bad or damaged cables exist) That i am around 1km - 1.2 km away from my exchange in macroom which is MRMA (Nested in the village exchange building) - last 3 days they now show an orange indicator for a planned green box and this unit is marked to be installed outside the door of the main Macroom exchange - if your on MRMA or MRMB then that one will be for you and a delay to be expected.

Ignore the marker position, somebody was lazy with their clicks. MRM1_E01 will be in a rack in the exchange. In fact itll probably be several racks.

dbit wrote: »

One thing i did do was pull every copper connection from where it comes into the house and pear the wires to expose nice shiny copper as dull copper indicates oxidation and thus line interference. Do this for every link in the chain the faceplate and main internal box . ( also had an old run in the house that ran upstairs and it had, at some stage a sharp dent in the line and this was slowing my connection previous to jumping up to 17MB download.)

Not bad advice, but when fibre becomes available they'll re-wired the MDP anyways.

dbit wrote: »

You want to lower your attenuation and increase SNR - I get 17MB Down on NGA but have to wait for MRMA to be provided with LLU solution from ericom to then be signed off by Comreg.

You may need Eircom to tell you directly you are terminated to MRM_009 as i ahve two of those green boxes within 700 meters of me either side but no efiber for me.

Exchanges nationally are now being marked for VDSL(eFibre) so Comreg(more the other ISPs) have said "go". No ETAs yet but its on the way. I suspect they might finish phase 1 of 1.4 mil premises via FTTC cabs and then start turning on exchange racks for ordering.

@Lucid go here https://www.eircom.net/broadband/productDetails?id=bu_23 and check your phone number, see if it gives a result.

MrLucidLJ · 15-08-2014 8:31pm

dbit wrote: »

MrLucidLJ call eircom ask them what exchange you are terminated too its the only way to be sure , IE some people along a main road may have direct connect and no LLU (Local Loop unbundling - this is how they handle the hand over from old broadband connection to the new one with no disruption to customers) yet decided upon and thus a further delay, yet others nearby can have it possibly due to more recent cable runs and age of certain estates. A towns cable infrastructure will not be the same in all areas and older residences may have older direct runs to exchanges.

In my situation i guestimate and by using snr line attenuation calculators (Google them online these are again best effort guess as cabling can be a factor if bad or damaged cables exist) That i am around 1km - 1.2 km away from my exchange in macroom which is MRMA (Nested in the village exchange building) - last 3 days they now show an orange indicator for a planned green box and this unit is marked to be installed outside the door of the main Macroom exchange - if your on MRMA or MRMB then that one will be for you and a delay to be expected.

One thing i did do was pull every copper connection from where it comes into the house and pear the wires to expose nice shiny copper as dull copper indicates oxidation and thus line interference. Do this for every link in the chain the faceplate and main internal box . ( also had an old run in the house that ran upstairs and it had, at some stage a sharp dent in the line and this was slowing my connection previous to jumping up to 17MB download.)

You want to lower your attenuation and increase SNR - I get 17MB Down on NGA but have to wait for MRMA to be provided with LLU solution from ericom to then be signed off by Comreg.

Buddy in Cavan did say in the start it was down more than up but now ESB and Yoda phone have implemented some more units to fix that between him and his CPE. His speeds sit nicely at around 80 MB down but i think hes been put on a stability profile - haven't had the chance to visit and look at the gear in use - nor do we know His distances . ESB use huge fat core copper so distances can be much farther on this system - and faster to boot.

You may need Eircom to tell you directly you are terminated to MRM_009 as i ahve two of those green boxes within 700 meters of me either side but no efiber for me.

Thanks for all your help I did a networking degree didn't finish but some of the things you said are a bit above my head. Im going to post an image to this thread to show you what has been said.

MrLucidLJ · 15-08-2014 8:36pm

ED E wrote: »

They wont be able to tell any more than the websites number checker will. If his cable path is direct fed only local eircom wholesale staff will know.

Ignore the marker position, somebody was lazy with their clicks. MRM1_E01 will be in a rack in the exchange. In fact itll probably be several racks.

Not bad advice, but when fibre becomes available they'll re-wired the MDP anyways.

Thanks fpr the link this is the result it gave me which never gave to me before:

Exchanges nationally are now being marked for VDSL(eFibre) so Comreg(more the other ISPs) have said "go". No ETAs yet but its on the way. I suspect they might finish phase 1 of 1.4 mil premises via FTTC cabs and then start turning on exchange racks for ordering.

@Lucid go here https://www.eircom.net/broadband/productDetails?id=bu_23 and check your phone number, see if it gives a result.

Thanks for the link this is the result it gave me which never gave to me before:

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jay93 · 15-08-2014 9:51pm

Seems like they updated the map again and now it's saying my area will be getting it in Sep-14 which is much better than jan-apr 2015 , checked the line on the efibre checker and its saying the same there too so hopefully it will be up and running next month.

MrLucidLJ · 15-08-2014 10:21pm

jay93 wrote: »

Seems like they updated the map again and now it's saying my area will be getting it in Sep-14 which is much better than jan-apr 2015 , checked the line on the efibre checker and its saying the same there too so hopefully it will be up and running next month.

Your Duleek isn't it and thats a vast Improvement hope we both get it in the next month or so just can't wait and hope the speeds are going to be really good for the both of us.

MrLucidLJ · 16-08-2014 4:49pm

ED E wrote: »

They wont be able to tell any more than the websites number checker will. If his cable path is direct fed only local eircom wholesale staff will know.

Ignore the marker position, somebody was lazy with their clicks. MRM1_E01 will be in a rack in the exchange. In fact itll probably be several racks.

Not bad advice, but when fibre becomes available they'll re-wired the MDP anyways.

Exchanges nationally are now being marked for VDSL(eFibre) so Comreg(more the other ISPs) have said "go". No ETAs yet but its on the way. I suspect they might finish phase 1 of 1.4 mil premises via FTTC cabs and then start turning on exchange racks for ordering.

@Lucid go here https://www.eircom.net/broadband/productDetails?id=bu_23 and check your phone number, see if it gives a result.

Now they are saying that its not available when I put my number in today thats really bizzare.

dbit · 18-08-2014 8:39am

You are getting the same message as me that its in the area but not enabled at your address yet , I smell direct Fed , In my case it took almost 13 -14 calls to them to get them to give me the name of my terminating exchange .(With great heartache and pain i got to the advanced BB support team and in there they told me i was on MRMA ( So direct Fed) What you should try doing now is get the numbers for maybe the garage on the far said (Kerry side of macroom and check the number for that , or check the line for a house in the cabinet areas to see the difference in response - if any ?????

One guy in Eircom went as far as to say "You will never get fiber in that area" , This then led me in here to meet ED and his info helped me correlate my scenario.

dbit · 18-08-2014 9:58am

I have just tested the phone numbers for the recycling center, Topaz and a multitude of businesses out there and i get same **** all saying its enabled but not at the address - seems moot only way to tell si to speak with them and ask for the go live date for your house. If they dilly dally then possibly you are on direct fed only they dont want to tell you its going to take even longer ???

dbit · 20-08-2014 9:29am

Yesterday the main exchange in Macroom now shows up as 300 premises can now order efiber and the towns 5 cabs now show as live. If they cannot tell you that you can sign up on the phone now then there is something really wrong. They also have a planned cab ( In the same place as the main exchange - LLU cannot be an excuse for this bull**** carry on as its going to be the same solution for the already active people ) for all us dopey ****s on the direct fed.

Efibre Macroom

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