UTV Fibre

Sully

I seem to recall UTV offering fibre in Ireland and only a few months ago one of their techs said it was available. It came available in my area today and when I called UTV they said they were not offering fibre due to a 'problem' and he had no idea when they would.

Anybody any idea what the story is?

bk

Forgetting about UTV, check with Vodafone if Fibre is available in your area. You can check with their online checker.

I think the "technical" problem is that UPC simply can't compete with the very low prices of Vodafones Fibre packages, so they never rolled it out.

Sully

I'm in contract with UTV and they always supplied the best package when we shopped around.

D_BEAR

I have UTV fibre got it installed around november last year so they definitely do it.

From UTV twitter feed "Still a few wholesale issues with fibre, we only want to offer the best possible service so
we've stopped selling it for a short time. We only want the best for our customers! Thanks"

ED E

Doing a sky and waiting for the others to pay the installation fees? Maybe so.

bloodyhawk

D_BEAR wrote: »

I have UTV fibre got it installed around november last year so they definitely do it.

From UTV twitter feed "Still a few wholesale issues with fibre, we only want to offer the best possible service so
we've stopped selling it for a short time. We only want the best for our customers! Thanks"

What ping times do you get with them? Do you mind posting speedtest results?

D_BEAR

House is about 1600m from fibre cabinet so speed isn't great about twice speed of old dsl connection.



Pinging loadbalancer.boards.ie [89.234.66.108] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=57
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=57
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=57
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=57

Pinging www.google.com [74.125.24.103] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=50

bloodyhawk

Are they using the same technology as eircom, To bring fiber to the premises. ?

D_BEAR

They use the same fibre cabinets and cable to the house.
The modem is different UTV use a Technicolor TG589vn v3 not sure what model Eircom use.