when is the actual new broadband speeds gonna happen

iggyman

ive heard that they are doin something from tonight till tomorrow...and then i heard somewere else that there doing something on the 4th of april that will last more than a week....im just confused ..are we gettin the new speeds tomorrow or in april...?

Irishpimpdude

No its Between Tonight @ 10pm and Tomorrow @ 6pm :rolleyes:

iggyman

are u sure on this ...irishpimp dude..who ever ya are..ya dont really sound like a pimp :cool:

Irishpimpdude

:rolleyes: Haha Badboy off topic, yes im sure just read all the threads or take a look at eircoms website... Im sure you prob have an iggy though "iggyman"

crawler

iggyman wrote:

ive heard that they are doin something from tonight till tomorrow...and then i heard somewere else that there doing something on the 4th of april that will last more than a week....im just confused ..are we gettin the new speeds tomorrow or in april...?

Starts 24/01 (or slightly before)

Irishpimpdude

Are you sure? i thought it was tonight

iggyman

and does this date count for all isp's...utv,eircom etc..

Willymuncher

Netsource and a few others have stated that upgrades are happening tonight, but I've heard the 24th being mentioned also....I guess we'll find out soon enough.

crawler

Right,

To end this....

Work will begin tonight on the exchanges.

This will upgrade speeds for ALL providers, eircom, Digiweb, BT etc Who sell the eircom Bitstream products. This does NOT impact on the Local loop unbundled services, such as Smart, Some of BT's stuff etc...

Most people should ge the new speeds but a small number will not - remember DSL is Rate adaptive, i.e. if the copper is poor or you are at the very edge of the coverage zone you may not get the new speeds. The % of people who do NOT get the new speeds should be small.

The official upgrade date is the 24th of Jan and most people will be upgraded "around this date" - so really from this weekend onwards and for a period of a few weeks people will be upgraded.

The upgrades will cause some outages during the works, some short some a bit longer but all should be out of business hours unless emergency works are required.

Now, go away

iggyman

just one more question crawler..does utv broadband fall into the eircom bitstream product thingy..or is a local loop thing..thanks for the help in anyway

Keyzer

anyone got a link for further reading on this?

bk

iggyman wrote:

just one more question crawler..does utv broadband fall into the eircom bitstream product thingy..or is a local loop thing..thanks for the help in anyway

I'll help you out Crawler

UTV are a user of Eircoms bitsream service, so they will get the upgrades at the same time as Eircom.

Valentia

anyone got a link for further reading on this?

Try www,boards.ie. All over the place

radiospan

Keyzer wrote:

anyone got a link for further reading on this?

This thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054872265

@iggyman: Yes, UTV will be upgraded too.