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What affect will my exchange been fibre enabled have on my speeds

  • 16-05-2014 9:52pm
    #1
    bennyineire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭


    Hey peps, so seemingly my local exchange is due to be fibre enabled before the end of the year. I'm just wondering what affect this will have on my broadband profile. Here's the rub, I live 5.5km from the exchange and I'm currently on a 4meg profile. Will the fact that I'm so far from the exchange mean that a fibre enabled exchange will make difference what my line can manage.
    BTW the exchange is in a rural village about 8km from Tullamore and I'm then additionally 5.5km from the exchange (aka the middle of nowhere)


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  • #2
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    bennyineire wrote: »
    Hey peps, so seemingly my local exchange is due to be fibre enabled before the end of the year. I'm just wondering what affect this will have on my broadband profile. Here's the rub, I live 5.5km from the exchange and I'm currently on a 4meg profile. Will the fact that I'm so far from the exchange mean that a fibre enabled exchange will make difference what my line can manage.
    BTW the exchange is in a rural village about 8km from Tullamore and I'm then additionally 5.5km from the exchange (aka the middle of nowhere)

    If you are directly connected to the exchange then you will not get fibre at least for the time being. If you are connected to a copper cabinet there will be a fibre cabinet installed beside it. Your distance from the cabinet will determine what speed you will get.


  • #3
    bennyineire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    I'm directly connected to the exchange and as far as I'm aware there is only 1 cabinet been serviced from that exchange (which serves about 10 houses). The exchanged is in a small village.
    So in theory sometime down the road when/if eircom fibre enable my line what kind of speeds could I get


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    You sure its 5.5Km? Thats typically too far for any DSL at all. Dial up only kind of territory.

    To get 4Mb sync you'd bee looking at 3.5-4KM.

    At that length, VDSL is no good for you and wouldnt work. So if there definitely is no cab then your speed wont change until they do FTTDP or FTTH in 5-10years.


  • #5
    bennyineire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    Yep I'm sure, I've clocked it plus when I was sorting out a technical issue a few weeks ago they told me it was 5.5km


  • #6
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    4Mb at 5km, that's impressive! There may be a cabinet you don't know about, but if not then fibre make no Difference. It may mean better backhaul for the exchange though so less congestion.


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  • #7
    jca
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    Maybe he means Eircom are running fibre to his exchange i.e. ngb not vdsl. Would that alone give him an improvement?


  • #8
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Nonoperational wrote: »
    4Mb at 5km, that's impressive! There may be a cabinet you don't know about, but if not then fibre make no Difference. It may mean better backhaul for the exchange though so less congestion.

    I suspect he might be on a reach node slightly closer than the exchange, 4Mb at 5Km isnt very likely.
    jca wrote: »
    Maybe he means Eircom are running fibre to his exchange i.e. ngb not vdsl. Would that alone give him an improvement?

    Not really, unless he's being effected by congestion right now.


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