Greystones - eFibre (Eircom Fibre Roll-out)

red_bairn

As you may know already, Eircom has lived it's fibre service and has technicians setting up peoples homes with new VDSL (fibre) modems in the middle of next week.

Greystones is currently being worked on by KN networks and Eircom, and could possibly be ready over the next month or two.

There is a thread on the Broadband section for those people who wish to help map out the locations of FTTC (Fiber-To-The-Cabinet) for the general public.

A complete guide to Eircom's new fibre broadband in the Daily Business Post explains what FTTC is and other items, including prices.

If you see the new VDSL cabinet, on the right, in the post displayed, please inform us on the mapping thread and we'll add it to the Google Map straight away. Also, if you get a photo of it in it's setting, that'll be great too!

Alternatively, if you also see the ADSL cabinet (on the left-hand side of the picture), you could inform me here. Where ever there is an ADSL cabinet, a fibre cabinet will appear over the coming weeks or so.

The bottom link in my signature also shows our current progress over all of Ireland. You can see the cabinets that have been found in Greystones so far (or current work). The Beechbrook Park (Greystones) cabinet was Eircom's/KN Network's 2000th installation. That's over 300,000 connections so far and they are planning on 1.2million homes being connected.

Thanks in advance.

Craig.

loyatemu

250m from my gaff to the newly installed cab on Bellevue Rd - looking forward to getting VDSL.

UPC have missed a trick not upgrading the network in Greystones - probably won't be worth their while now, most people are already using Sky for their TV and VDSL will take the market for high-speed broadband...

MyPerfectCousin

I just saw one of the new cabinets on the Mill Road on the edge of the Burnaby.

red_bairn

Do you mean the one I have marked down for St.Vincent Road? Or another one is along that road?

Charlie-Bravo

Charlesland Wood This is the location of where I saw 'cab' spray painted on the grass, no cabinet yet but it will be directly adjacent by the looks of it. Exciting stuff if you're into this sort of thing

Jimjay

astrofluff wrote: »

Charlesland Wood This is the location of where I saw 'cab' spray painted on the grass, no cabinet yet but it will be directly adjacent by the looks of it. Exciting stuff if you're into this sort of thing

Thats nice and close to us :-)
Bye bye upc when this come out. (Well depending on th deals)

MyPerfectCousin

red_bairn wrote: »

Do you mean the one I have marked down for St.Vincent Road? Or another one is along that road?

That's the one. Sorry, nothing new here, just that your post made me notice it!

gramo

Has anyone contacted Eircom to see what time sacale we are looking at for charlesland.?
If its out before UPC upgrades I'll be switching.

red_bairn

gramo wrote: »

Has anyone contacted Eircom to see what time sacale we are looking at for charlesland.?
If its out before UPC upgrades I'll be switching.

This gives a rough estimation.

The Real B-man

gramo wrote: »

Has anyone contacted Eircom to see what time sacale we are looking at for charlesland.?
If its out before UPC upgrades I'll be switching.

I Rang and was Told Greystones is Due to be Live June or July there are ahead of Schedule as completion Date was Due to be December.

https://secure.eircom.net/fibre/

red_bairn

The Real B-man wrote: »

I Rang and was Told Greystones is Due to be Live June or July there are ahead of Schedule as completion Date was Due to be December.

https://secure.eircom.net/fibre/

Yep. There is the coverage map.

Here is the article on the Wholesale page about Greystones to be completed in Dec 2013.

Langerland

Yep - I was told by an Eircom Engineer who was working on a road in the area that it was all set up and ready to be switched on. It's just the regulator is preventing them from switching on for a few weeks for some reason.

red_bairn

Langerland wrote: »

Yep - I was told by an Eircom Engineer who was working on a road in the area that it was all set up and ready to be switched on. It's just the regulator is preventing them from switching on for a few weeks for some reason.

Nah ComReg said they couldn't take orders until May 20th because of the way the rules were set around 6 months ago. Some customers will be getting their service installed this Thursday but not in Greystones.

Quackhart

I think I posted about this before, those that are lucky enough to be in the enabled (cabinets rolled out and working) fibre areas of Greystones will be eligible to upgrade. Sadly for others, as hinted above this could be a few months down the line (badum tish). :rolleyes:

red_bairn

Quackhart wrote: »

I think I posted about this before, those that are lucky enough to be in the enabled (cabinets rolled out and working) fibre areas of Greystones will be eligible to upgrade. Sadly for others, as hinted above this could be a few months down the line (badum tish). :rolleyes:

When I spoke to engineers at the top of Rathdown Park one day, they said it would be June-July that we'd probably be going live (our estate I suppose). It's possible Eircom will say an area is ready but it won't really be, as we are seeing the case with many other exchange areas,i.e. Drogheda, Cork etc.

Charlie-Bravo

Saw a KN Networks truck today with a load of these cabinets at Charlesland roundabout parked on the cycle lane - don't see any oldskool ADSL cabinet on google maps at where they were parked. Anywho, expect these cabs be popping up over the next couple of days in Charlesland.

Taltos

Added the Kindlestown Upper box - completing installation today.

red_bairn

Taltos wrote: »

Added the Kindlestown Upper box - completing installation today.

Oh. Are you sure it isn't the one I already made? The one on the main road between Kindlestown heights and Upper?

Taltos

Its between Kindlestown Upper (called heights on the map) and Kindlestown Rise - road up to Coolagad/Kindlestown forest.
Just by the postbox - didn't see any flags on the map though??

. - scrub the above - you are spot on - we are talking about the same box...

Charlie-Bravo

That cabinet is installed just off the Charlesland roundabout in behind the wall of Seabourne view. Adding to map...

Chikablam

This coming to kilcoole, anyone know?

red_bairn

Chikablam wrote: »

This coming to kilcoole, anyone know?

There are cabinets already installed in Kilcoole. See the map (in my signature) for the cabinets nearby you.

Charlie-Bravo

Work underway today building the plinth for the Cab in Charlesland Wood. It looks like it's been a month since putting in the other one at Seabourne View roundabout only 100metres away.

red_bairn

astrofluff wrote: »

Work underway today building the plinth for the Cab in Charlesland Wood. It looks like it's been a month since putting in the other one at Seabourne View roundabout only 100metres away.

Yeah, there seem to some guys back around in Greystones. It went quite for a a few weeks. They were probably working on Newcastle, Kilcoole, Kilpeddar etc.

A friend noted that there were guys working up at windgates only yesterday.

I met two KN contractors removing the old 1970s copper cabinet from teh footbridge near the railway station. There are a few more of these that will need replacing, one is at the Delgany-Killincarrick roundabout. But they still have a bit more work to do.

They've also had the ESB work done on the majority or all cabinets that are already installed.

I think we could be looking at July 12th which is a date mentioned by others, for other exchanges to go live.

Charlie-Bravo

Would prefer if UPC bothered to give Charlesland the 100Mb BB service with the full compliment of TV channels that Dublin has along with the HD and Horizon box. I can only see people leaning towards Sky HD and then going back on the old copper ADSL (in hope of getting the VDSL).

If KN networks are pulling fibre over Windgates, they should really pull a second fibre for UPC at the same time and make a bit of profit doing it. But this is Ireland, it'll have to be done twice!

The Durutti Column

Has Vodafone revealed any info on their schedule? Can't find anything on their site... Just a note that they will contact existing customers as it becomes available.

Will their schedule be pretty much the same as eircom?

red_bairn

The Durutti Column wrote: »

Has Vodafone revealed any info on their schedule? Can't find anything on their site... Just a note that they will contact existing customers as it becomes available.

Will their schedule be pretty much the same as eircom?

Well yeah, because they have to wait till Eircom have finished commissioning all the cabinets in this area.

In regards to UPC, somebody said on another thread that it would be great if UPC worked off Eircom VDSL. It would mean UPC would have a much larger coverage area for customer base.

Charlie-Bravo

Interesting, but how fast can VDSL go to and will it do TV too through a router/modem? Also once on VDSL, does the standard voice element on the line get dropped and phones now go to VOIP? Slowly learning how these things are put together.

Charlie-Bravo

On another note for charlesland, I count 3 additional existing ADSL cabinets in place - so a possible extra 3 VDSL cabs to be installed.

These are, one between C.Grove and C.Park (on spine road), one at C.Court (beside the first line of duplexes), and one to the left the Crescent Apartments at the last road for C.Park.

I haven't seen any other cabinets down at the Charlesland Centre. So with 5 possible cabs in Charlesland, is that enough to meet demand? Does anyone know many households can one cab serve?

loyatemu

astrofluff wrote: »

Interesting, but how fast can VDSL go to and will it do TV too through a router/modem? Also once on VDSL, does the standard voice element on the line get dropped and phones now go to VOIP? Slowly learning how these things are put together.

VDSL can go to 100Mb/s but that requires that vectoring be enabled.

the voice element (POTS) is optional in Eircom's wholesale product, so you should be able to order VDSL on its own, and use VOIP for voice calls if you so wish.

I don't think any of the ISPs are doing a bundled TV service yet, but it is technically possible over VDSL (using multicast).

red_bairn

loyatemu wrote: »

VDSL can go to 100Mb/s but that requires that vectoring be enabled.

the voice element (POTS) is optional in Eircom's wholesale product, so you should be able to order VDSL on its own, and use VOIP for voice calls if you so wish.

I don't think any of the ISPs are doing a bundled TV service yet, but it is technically possible over VDSL (using multicast).

Yep, it is. Eircom will be bringing out their TV service in the Autumn time. They've already surveyed some customers, according to on Boards.ie user in the Broadband section.

astrofluff wrote: »

On another note for charlesland, I count 3 additional existing ADSL cabinets in place - so a possible extra 3 VDSL cabs to be installed.

These are, one between C.Grove and C.Park (on spine road), one at C.Court (beside the first line of duplexes), and one to the left the Crescent Apartments at the last road for C.Park.

I haven't seen any other cabinets down at the Charlesland Centre. So with 5 possible cabs in Charlesland, is that enough to meet demand? Does anyone know many households can one cab serve?

If you can, could you take photos of the new VDSL cabinets in their environs and give a description where each one is located (when they arrive), please?

I'll see if I can get an updated list from IrelandOffline of all the VDSL locations in Greystones.