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Eircom to roll out 1Gb/s FTTH to 66 towns

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,719 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    irishgeo wrote: »
    eircom vans in manor village estate castlebar today all the man holes open.

    Sure what would ye culchies want with FTTH! Come on Balbriggan (Co Dublin) :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭PeadarB


    KeRbDoG wrote: »
    It would be great to get some technical info on how those drops would be done
    This is a still of the pole drop used in Belcarra (from the eircom video) :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    PeadarB wrote: »
    This is a still of the pole drop used in Belcarra (from the eircom video) :)
    Praetorian wrote: »
    Sure what would ye culchies want with FTTH! Come on Balbriggan (Co Dublin) :p

    Poles outside, 100m of duct to my house already ready :) bring it on telco!
    I might be a little bit eager, don't see them hitting the sticks outside of Swords for a long time :(


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


    PeadarB wrote: »
    This is a still of the pole drop used in Belcarra (from the eircom video) :)

    They tried all topologies in Belcarra as it was a test site. Doesnt mean the real rollout will follow suit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭PeadarB


    ED E wrote: »
    They tried all topologies in Belcarra as it was a test site. Doesnt mean the real rollout will follow suit.

    If will preclude up to 60% of 11,250 premises in Letterkenny from the eircom FTTH roll-out, if they do not replicate the Belcarra pole drops, or something similar.

    This is the approximate number of premises currently able to avail of FTTC in Letterkenny - but only via pole drops. At least Siro will be hot on their heels and I can't see eircom miss this opportunity as they already have a captive audience.

    I would be inclined to go with the first company to offer the service to me, despite a contract period.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,715 ✭✭✭Nollog


    They've leaflets ready to go in eircom stores, I picked one up after shopping in tesco.

    Only bit of cute information is that it states "free installation", so that's 1 worry to cross off your list if you're so inclined.
    similarly I guess:
    "wireless modem included" !!!!!
    "Absolutely no usage limits" !!!!!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    I don't see any major reason why they wouldn't do drops from poles. Verizon in the US has been doing drops from poles for their FTTH network for years now and many of the areas they service get much worse weather then us (extremes of low temperatures/snow and high temperatures). So their is no technical reason not to do it.

    Now perhaps during the trial they discovered an issue with their supplier of pole mounted gear. That after all is the point of such trials. And maybe they are simply looking for other suppliers, thus delaying deployments from poles. Just speculation on my part, but while their might be a delay, I can't imagine them not doing pole deployments at all!! I'd be shocked if that was the case and it would severely limit the number of customers Eircom can service. I just can't see that happening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭PeadarB


    /\/ollog wrote: »
    They've leaflets ready to go in eircom stores, I picked one up after shopping in tesco.

    Only bit of cute information is that it states "free installation", so that's 1 worry to cross off your list if you're so inclined.
    similarly I guess:
    "wireless modem included" !!!!!
    "Absolutely no usage limits" !!!!!
    Little or no info in eircom store. Scan of rear of flyer linked below.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭abyss


    domeld wrote: »
    Propbably first customer in Wexford upgraded!
    What ping do you have?

    Overall - pretty impressive speed.
    When will be available I will swap immediately from three where I have "good speed" as they say on support line - in worst scenario 1.85 Mbps (over max signal 4G) - and during late evening hours and night is a barely usable from my point of view.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    1,000Mb speeds that never ever slow down.

    I'm getting a funny smell. It even says on the same page that speeds may vary.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,108 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Kahless wrote: »
    I'm getting a funny smell. It even says on the same page that speeds may vary.

    Maybe referring to the 150/30, 300/50 FTTH options, not everyone will want or can afford the 1Gb product.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    Maybe nothing. It specifically says 1,000Mb and that it never ever slows down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭aphex™


    The morkeshing crowd are probably just used to adding that in to cover themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,108 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Kahless wrote: »
    Maybe nothing. It specifically says 1,000Mb and that it never ever slows down.

    Yes but they will be offering 3 FTTH products 150, 300 and 1000 Mb/s - http://www.eircomwholesale.ie/news/FTTH_Pricing/.

    If we take net1's FTTH provisional pricing as a guide, €99 for 1000 Mb/s, can't see a lot of households being interested at that price.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    aphex™ wrote: »
    The morkeshing crowd are probably just used to adding that in to cover themselves.

    Or covering themselves for the now regular 9-11.30pm back haul debacle. Amazingly it always happens when eircom support is closed....


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


    jca wrote: »
    Or covering themselves for the now regular 9-11.30pm back haul debacle. Amazingly it always happens when eircom support is closed....

    That'd be nice if they werent open till 10.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    ED E wrote: »
    That'd be nice if they werent open till 10.

    Are they? I've never managed to contact anyone in support after 8.30 and their Web chat ends at 5.30 which would be my preferred choice of contact. I might try them again this evening as last night it was atrocious again, I hit an all time low of 0.65 dl with ul not completing and that was using Eircom's own speed test.....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    The Cush wrote: »
    Yes but they will be offering 3 FTTH products 150, 300 and 1000 Mb/s - http://www.eircomwholesale.ie/news/FTTH_Pricing/.

    If we take net1's FTTH provisional pricing as a guide, €99 for 1000 Mb/s, can't see a lot of households being interested at that price.


    Will lol if that's the price. I can see a small demographic of house shares with 4+ residents splitting the cost of it between them each month, but even then most people in that situation probably wouldn't care enough to have Gigabit Internet speeds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Parents in Limerick got a call today asking if they want to upgrade


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    Will lol if that's the price. I can see a small demographic of house shares with 4+ residents splitting the cost of it between them each month, but even then most people in that situation probably wouldn't care enough to have Gigabit Internet speeds.

    I might be mad, but for a 1gig connection I'd be more than happy to pay what was suggested. I thought that sharing Eircom Broadband was against their ToS but i can't find it in the version I found :) so fair game!


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Parents in Limerick got a call today asking if they want to upgrade

    Any idea of prices?
    KeRbDoG wrote: »
    I might be mad, but for a 1gig connection I'd be more than happy to pay what was suggested. I thought that sharing Eircom Broadband was against their ToS but i can't find it in the version I found :) so fair game!

    He said a house share so I assume he means a few people sharing the one house which wouldn't be against their terms of service and if it was, good luck to them enforcing that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    He said a house share so I assume he means a few people sharing the one house which wouldn't be against their terms of service and if it was, good luck to them enforcing that.

    Your right, I read it wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    If Eircom are rolling this out, will VF be able to piggyback off it like they currently do with copper fibre? Or would you have to switch over to Eircom?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,789 ✭✭✭jd


    Mc Love wrote: »
    If Eircom are rolling this out, will VF be able to piggyback off it like they currently do with copper fibre? Or would you have to switch over to Eircom?

    It's a wholesale offering, so they could. But seeing as they are rolling out their own fibre network with the ESB, they probably do not want to!


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    jd wrote: »
    It's a wholesale offering, so they could. But seeing as they are rolling out their own fibre network with the ESB, they probably do not want to!

    I wouldn't be certain about that. I expect Vodafone will re-sell Eircoms FTTH, but only in areas where their own SIRO isn't available or soon to become available.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    bk wrote:
    I wouldn't be certain about that. I expect Vodafone will re-sell Eircoms FTTH, but only in areas where their own SIRO isn't available or soon to become available.


    Would they not offer it in the same place at a lower price?


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    red_bairn wrote: »
    Would they not offer it in the same place at a lower price?

    They could, but I doubt it. I'd expect they would just try getting as many people on their own network as possible. That is how this sort of thing has happened in the past.

    In fact it is similar to how it works with ADSL at the moment. In exchanges with Vodafones/BT own LLU gear, then they put customers on these LLU DSLAMS, in the rest of the country they simply resold Eircoms bitstream ADSL.

    Of course this was largely transparent to customers, the FTTH situation maybe a bit more complicated given the nature of the two different networks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    Hi

    I didn't think eircom was rolling out the 1gb in the Dublin suburbs yet.

    But I just got an email from eircom (I filled in the expression of interest form a few weeks back) to say its landing here soon.
    (this is the second email, the first one just said they are checking if its coming to my area)

    Also I was out for a jog the other night, and i saw a sign for it, not put up, lying in some bushes (which I thought odd at the time).

    I'm in Clonsilla, D15


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    Hi

    I didn't think eircom was rolling out the 1gb in the Dublin suburbs yet.

    But I just got an email from eircom (I filled in the expression of interest form a few weeks back) to say its landing here soon.

    Also I was out for a jog the other night, and i saw a sign for it, not put up, lying in some bushes (which I thought odd at the time).

    I'm in Clonsilla, D15

    I got the 1st and 2nd email saying the same for my rural location. Just 'chatted' with Eircom agent and no... Seems to me they just spammed everyone that had signed up to the webpage......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    MBSnr wrote: »
    I got the 1st and 2nd email saying the same for my rural location. Just 'chatted' with Eircom agent and no... Seems to me they just spammed everyone that had signed up to the webpage......

    Good ol eircom!


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