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Chorus MMDS installation

  • 27-07-2008 11:15am
    #1
    Colm80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭


    Hi guys was due to have chorus MMDS installed last Monday. Booked through there web site. There web site said service was available in my area. Gave all my details to them and installation was to happen last Monday. I even got email and a phone call to confirm this. Two days before installation I got another phone call from the guy who was to install it now saying the service is not available in my estate but is available in my area. Does this happen a lot. The next estate up from me some of the people have it. Cant understand why he did not bother to come out and try to see could signal be picked up.


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  • #2
    lensman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭lensman


    Colm80 wrote: »
    Hi guys was due to have chorus MMDS installed last Monday. Booked through there web site. There web site said service was available in my area. Gave all my details to them and installation was to happen last Monday. I even got email and a phone call to confirm this. Two days before installation I got another phone call from the guy who was to install it now saying the service is not available in my estate but is available in my area. Does this happen a lot. The next estate up from me some of the people have it. Cant understand why he did not bother to come out and try to see could signal be picked up.
    It's nothing to do with the signal,..I know of a few estates outside dublin with the same problem,..some builders/developers grant the contract to other tv providers not ntl,..there is a small estate in dunboyne who gets it's tv from magnet & wont allow upc to install there whilst 100mts away another estate
    gets it's channels from upc (mmds)


  • #3
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    If you can't put up a dish or mmds antenna, contact your local TDs and tell them sort it out our you'll be voting for some local independent hospital campaigner!

    Also, I would strongly suggest that you get a petition going around your estate as there are bound to be quite a few people upset at that state of affairs. Pass it on to all local TDs as well as the competition authority.


  • #4
    crubean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭crubean


    It does happen that certain places can receive a signal and others can't.
    I am a former installer with chorus and if i got a job to do,Iwould be able to tell before I got there wheter or not you would get a strong enough signal.There is no point putting a mmds system and you know the signal is poor in the area .


  • #5
    Colm80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Colm80


    crubean wrote: »
    It does happen that certain places can receive a signal and others can't.
    I am a former installer with chorus and if i got a job to do,Iwould be able to tell before I got there wheter or not you would get a strong enough signal.There is no point putting a mmds system and you know the signal is poor in the area .

    As i said the estate near me have it and the signal is fine. They should of made it clear from the word go that it was not available. How you can say you know before hand that the signal was poor with out calling out is just great.


  • #6
    maxg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭maxg


    If the estate management doesn't allow a mmds installation on the roof the installer know that before.


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  • #7
    Colm80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Colm80


    maxg wrote: »
    If the estate management doesn't allow a mmds installation on the roof the installer know that before.

    There allowed ok. Not to worrie getting sky instead should of done this from the start.


  • #8
    crubean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭crubean


    Colm80 wrote: »
    As i said the estate near me have it and the signal is fine. They should of made it clear from the word go that it was not available. How you can say you know before hand that the signal was poor with out calling out is just great.

    When you have experience putting in mmds in certain areas,you get to know the areas that work well.
    Also sales people will sell anything just to get there numbers in.


  • #9
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    If I remember correctly, the land around Dunboyne slopes gently upwards away from Dublin. I know there's MMDS service there, I've seen the aerials. Now coverage doesn't follow the boundaries of estates. And when locations nearby have MMDS, it's obvious that coverage can't be ruled out, which he did.

    Dunboyne is not challenging terrain. The Boyne Valley most certainly is, and they could still manage MMDS installs. With guy-stayed aerial poles in cases. And where I live, I can see the local MMDS transmitter but I could move 100 metres in a certain direction and I'd have no coverage from either the Naul in county Dublin or Mt. Oriel in Louth. Assumptions count for little, even with higher frequency stuff like MMDS.

    Bad form on the installer's part.


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