Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

dxhound2005

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Got a call from Eircom rep this morning offering free upgrade to 24 Meg. When I pointed out that my line can only handle 5 she did a test and agreed. But she did say they would reduce the price of my package by €10. She was clueless about Fibre, mixing up Dundalk with Drogheda. But she said the best thing to do was ring 1901 in July to check eventhough the previous rep took my details for me to be contacted when it is available.

I rang today and they have nothing more definite for Dundalk than July to Sept. Just by coincidence earlier I saw KN guys working at the cabinet in Patrick St (just round the corner from Market Fresh, is that one on the map?). I asked when Dundalk was going live and he said around end of August.

LFCFan

My cabinet (Stameen Cab on the Dublin Road in Drogheda) finally went live today (yellow sticker added to it yesterday) and I rang and got an install date at last. I reckon anyone who was told July for going live should be able to order from today

Noel_ags516

Hi,

I just wanted to know about fibre availability around Manor Village area in Tralee, Co. Kerry. The exchange near the Manor Village area (Killerisk exchange / Killerisk AEH) is on the map from the Eircom eFibre website and on the NGN Access website (NGA Coverage Map). The Killerisk exchange is also highlighted on the map from the NGA coverage map ("Fibre Build Commenced" ticked) with an estimated date of 12 July and on the eFibre website, the service will launch between July and September 2013 in the Manor Village area of Tralee.

• Does anyone know if the engineers would build fibre cabinets around Manor area in Tralee to get full 70Mbps speed?

allen175

Noel_ags516 wrote: »

Hi,

I just wanted to know about fibre availability around Manor Village area in Tralee, Co. Kerry. The exchange near the Manor Village area (Killerisk exchange / Killerisk AEH) is on the map from the Eircom eFibre website and on the NGN Access website (NGA Coverage Map). The Killerisk exchange is also highlighted on the map from the NGA coverage map ("Fibre Build Commenced" ticked) with an estimated date of 12 July and on the eFibre website, the service will launch between July and September 2013 in the Manor Village area of Tralee.

• Does anyone know if the engineers would build fibre cabinets around Manor area in Tralee to get full 70Mbps speed?

Check out <snip>, looks like killerisk has fibre cabs in place, looks like they have been commissioned and ready to order since may.

Johnboy1951

Is there a list anywhere comparing NGB enabled exchanges with the planned NGA exchanges?

Machinehead

Noel_ags516 wrote: »

Hi,

I just wanted to know about fibre availability around Manor Village area in Tralee, Co. Kerry. The exchange near the Manor Village area (Killerisk exchange / Killerisk AEH) is on the map from the Eircom eFibre website and on the NGN Access website (NGA Coverage Map). The Killerisk exchange is also highlighted on the map from the NGA coverage map ("Fibre Build Commenced" ticked) with an estimated date of 12 July and on the eFibre website, the service will launch between July and September 2013 in the Manor Village area of Tralee.

• Does anyone know if the engineers would build fibre cabinets around Manor area in Tralee to get full 70Mbps speed?

I confidently believe that neither Eircom or Vodafone have a clue what's pending. Southwest of Blennerville & I would guess almost 2km beyond Tonavane Cross is mapped by Eircom as "eFibre now available". As far as I'm aware furthest south-westerly cab from Tralee or Kilerisk exchanges is in Blennerville. Yet they show coverage as far west as Derryquay. Unless they are using some sort of mojo, can't see how they are going to get eFibre that far without cabs (in an area that's supposed to be already enabled). Vodafone's line line check tells me "Your line can support
Our fastest speed - up to 70Mb!" Yet Vodafone CS says no, your line is only good for 1MB.
Someone somewhere must have a plan:mad:

Mark Spilane

Can Comreg help if Eircom wont give you Fibre, yet everyone else in your area, bar one other house two doors away, nearer and farther from the exchange than you can get it.
They even confirmed that all are on the same cabinet.
But they just keep saying, "your line is not suitable".

The other neighbor who cant get it either already ordered a second line and had it installed, on the advice of Eircom, so now has 2 lines and that second line cant get it either now.

Surely they should be compelled to fix the lines if all other customers can get fibre from that cabinet. Obviously there are 2 lines in the area that are not up to carrying fibre from the cabinet into the houses, but all other lines into the houses can.

Eircom wont help here, so will COMREG.

bealtine

Mark Spilane wrote: »

Can Comreg help if Eircom wont give you Fibre, yet everyone else in your area,
Eircom wont help here, so will COMREG.

Man I nearly coughed out my all coffee over my screen reading that...

Comreg help? buhahahahahaha

red_bairn

bealtine wrote: »

Man I nearly coughed out my all coffee over my screen reading that...

Comreg help? buhahahahahaha

Dad knows the Vodafone exec that is now working for them.

SickBoy

Finally got it installed


A little disappointed with the upload (I realise it's still a great upload speed but was hoping for closer to the 20) but the download is very impressive

Nolars

SickBoy wrote: »

Finally got it installed


A little disappointed with the upload (I realise it's still a great upload speed but was hoping for closer to the 20) but the download is very impressive

Is that ping normally like that, fairly high.

SickBoy

Nolars wrote: »

Is that ping normally like that, fairly high.

Not something I paid much attention to in the past to be honest. I'll keep an eye on it and see if it improves. What should I be expecting latency wise?

red_bairn

SickBoy wrote: »

Not something I paid much attention to in the past to be honest. I'll keep an eye on it and see if it improves. What should I be expecting latency wise?

I think there has only been 5-10ms drops. You would see better drops with FTTH. Wait for the machinery to do the work.

dubmick

at last, got it installed today. This is my speed over a wireless connection.



Fairly happy with that.

MikeyJoyce

dubmick wrote: »

at last, got it installed today. This is my speed over a wireless connection.



Fairly happy with that.

Looks awesome!

Do you know your distance from the cabinet?

TheDriver

i noticed yellow stickers on our local cabinets in last few days, does this mean they are going live very soon?

joe_99

Getting a much better upload than download for some reason??

SpaceTime

My order (or pre-order) is now in, but there's no sign of any progress on it.

TheChizler

joe_99 wrote: »

Getting a much better upload than download for some reason??

WiFi or wired?

joe_99

TheChizler wrote: »

WiFi or wired?

Wired

TheChizler

joe_99 wrote: »

Wired

Weird.

Try a different server or speed test service? Make sure you're the only one connected to the internet?

claytonie

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Is there a list anywhere comparing NGB enabled exchanges with the planned NGA exchanges?

Here is list again for anyone that missed it

<snip>

Johnboy1951

claytonie wrote: »

Here is list again for anyone that missed it

<snip>

Am I missing something?
I don't see a comparison of NGB & NGA exchanges ..... these bloody complicated files .....

murphaph

Why the snip?

red_bairn

murphaph wrote: »

Why the snip?

Clearly Eircom don't want this kind of information up online for all to see because they'll get complaints about why such n' such cabinet isn't ready according to X spreadsheet.

Danny Boy

What's the story with this? Rural Ireland scre**d again?

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/coalition-waters-down-plan-for-highspeed-broadband-29425747.html

Johnboy1951

red_bairn wrote: »

Clearly Eircom don't want this kind of information up online for all to see because they'll get complaints about why such n' such cabinet isn't ready according to X spreadsheet.

That is sufficient reason for it to be cut out?

SpaceTime

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Am I missing something?
I don't see a comparison of NGB & NGA exchanges ..... these bloody complicated files .....

The complication is that some very small exchanges may be not on the NGN but the voice lines they serve could be connected to a NGA cabinet that's been rehomed to a bigger exchange. It's happened quite a bit with those tiny exchanges in housing estates and business parks.

Also to clarify the acronyms
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NGN = the new next generation backbone
NGA = the next generation fibre access network (efibre)
NGB = traditional ADSL back hauled over the NGN.

kaizersoze

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TheChizler

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

That is sufficient reason for it to be cut out?

IP/copyright maybe? The data in that spreadsheet is their data after all.