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

ED E

Thats right. HG659 is the best OpenEir have.

jenny smith

pegasus1 wrote: »

Eco, what year was your house built? and why no ETU..?

what is ETU?

Avada

jenny smith wrote: »

what is ETU?

External Termination Unit. Its basically a box on the outside wall of your house.

Manc Red

The website is updated. Apparently they now have their own sport channels (formerly setanta sports).

https://www.eir.ie/broadband/

Still can only get 10Mb here tho.

Manc Red

Oh... just noticed this too:

"FREE superior WiFi Modem"

Have they updated it then?:rolleyes:

mass_debater

Manc Red wrote: »

Have they updated it then?:rolleyes:

The f2000 is very decent for a provider supplied router

ED E

Manc would only get a D1000 though, not as bad as its predecessors but really nothing to write home about.

Manc Red

mass_debater wrote: »

The f2000 is very decent for a provider supplied router

I know but I thought they might have updated the router again to go along with the new sports packages.

I don't think they called it a "superior WiFi Modem" before. Maybe I'm just not recalling it correctly.

SmallBalls

Has roll out on this ceased?

Gonzo

SmallBalls wrote: »

Has roll out on this ceased?

no, just slowed down alot. Bray town is going live next Wednesday.

I doubt the people in these towns are losing any sleep over it tho as most would be well served with Virgin Media or FTTC.

ED E

Gonzo wrote: »

no, just slowed down alot. Bray town is going live next Wednesday.

Missed that, gonna have to give a mate a buzz. He's just left Virgin for greener pastures (*ba-dum-dum-tish*).

phil_trick

Gonzo wrote: »

no, just slowed down alot. Bray town is going live next Wednesday.

I doubt the people in these towns are losing any sleep over it tho as most would be well served with Virgin Media or FTTC.

Is there anywhere apart from the dreadful interactive map site that gives updates on the 1GBit rollout'?

Gonzo

phil_trick wrote: »

Is there anywhere apart from the dreadful interactive map site that gives updates on the 1GBit rollout'?

that's the only one available. Unfortunately the 66 towns FTTH does not show up in it apart from a tag to say how many premises can avail of FTTH. Bray is going live next week but it's anyone's guess to what part of Bray and how many homes will be covered.

Alun

Gonzo wrote: »

Bray is going live next week but it's anyone's guess to what part of Bray and how many homes will be covered.

Any news on this?

ED E

Alun wrote: »

Any news on this?

Address I'm interested in is still prequalling for 90Mb VDSL.

Gonzo

Bray was meant to go live today along with 4 rural exchanges, no news on techbytes yet.

damienirel

Gonzo wrote: »

Bray was meant to go live today along with 4 rural exchanges, no news on techbytes yet.

Funny to think that Bray is considered rural.

Gonzo

damienirel wrote: »

Funny to think that Bray is considered rural.

it's not, it's part of the 66 town scheme from a couple of year's back.

damienirel

Gonzo wrote: »

it's not, it's part of the 66 town scheme from a couple of year's back.

Ah right only getting round to it now eh?

Gonzo

damienirel wrote: »

Ah right only getting round to it now eh?

there is roughly 20 of those towns live now. In some of the towns people have reported that it is often just a few housing estates or a few roads that's live so they are not rolling out to the whole town in each case. There is no rush to roll out FTTH to towns anyway as most people are well served by Virgin Media or FTTC. I would imagine uptake of FTTH would be very low in urban areas.

Bray is a very large town so I would imagine only a portion of it has gone live.

Unlike the FTTH rural rollout, there is no map to show what parts of towns has gone live or where the fiber is.

OpenEir are meant to be working on a new FTTH map, hopefully it will show both the rural routes and the town routes under live, in progress and planned.

red_bairn

Gonzo wrote: »

there is roughly 20 of those towns live now. In some of the towns people have reported that it is often just a few housing estates or a few roads that's live so they are not rolling out to the whole town in each case. There is no rush to roll out FTTH to towns anyway as most people are well served by Virgin Media or FTTC. I would imagine uptake of FTTH would be very low in urban areas.

Bray is a very large town so I would imagine only a portion of it has gone live.

Unlike the FTTH rural rollout, there is no map to show what parts of towns has gone live or where the fiber is.

OpenEir are meant to be working on a new FTTH map, hopefully it will show both the rural routes and the town routes under live, in progress and planned.

Yeah, and some people aren't keen on the service dropping as low as our (family) ADSL2+ connection if not lower sometimes.

Gonzo

red_bairn wrote: »

Yeah, and some people aren't keen on the service dropping as low as our (family) ADSL2+ connection if not lower sometimes.

you live in Greystones town? Plenty of FTTC cabinets there and FTTH was rolled out to 1840 premises there. I think virgin media are there as well.

Gonzo

Roscommon is the next town to go live on 2nd January 2017.

jowkon

On my exchange says 3200 is efibre and 400 FTTH (all cabinets live since 2 years) How to figure out which are those and when is plan for the rest to be done??

Deagol

jowkon wrote: »

On my exchange says 3200 is efibre and 400 FTTH (all cabinets live since 2 years) How to figure out which are those and when is plan for the rest to be done??

They did roughly 10% of Ennis and left it at that. Number hasn't changed in months. Seems to be a very strange roll-out, low hanging fruit perhaps. I don't think Eir have any intention of doing anymore beyond the 'easy' estates so don't hold your breath.

Gonzo

Deagol wrote: »

They did roughly 10% of Ennis and left it at that. Number hasn't changed in months. Seems to be a very strange roll-out, low hanging fruit perhaps. I don't think Eir have any intention of doing anymore beyond the 'easy' estates so don't hold your breath.

Unlike the rural FTTH lines, Eir never gave numbers of premises to be completed for any of the towns listed in the 66 towns plan. The open eir fiber rollout map only shows the rural FTTH routes and location of cabinets but not the urban FTTH, where it is or how much more there is to do. From what I've read over past year, the rollouts in the towns are limited to a few estates in each town, rather than a full scale rollout.

jowkon

Thanks for answers. Where is the rural FTTH rollout map?and official 66 town list? cos Im on between
I don't hold my breath as I have filling that eircom only change name.I was off topic for 2 years.

Gonzo

jowkon wrote: »

Thanks for answers. Where is the rural FTTH rollout map?and official 66 town list? cos Im on between
I don't hold my breath as I have filling that eircom only change name.I was off topic for 2 years.

Eir 66 towns list https://www.eir.ie/opencms/export/sites/default/.content/pdf/IR/news/eircom_Expands_Fibre_to_the_Home_Footprint_map.pdf

Rural FTTH rollout Map
http://fibrerollout.ie/where-and-when/

jowkon

Thank you Gonzo Im not on the 66 list those 400 of 1gb makes me wonder which ones they are. where I live is little over 3000 houses connected to fttc. I know that map I was on it every day 2 years ago. Unfortunately it shows all fibre (fttc) does not specify ftth.
I presume there is nothing more info from eir.
Thank you for a quick update.
Waiting for Siro second rollout 2020 now

lbyrne121

Does anyone live in the Bellurgan area of Dundalk and know if Fiber broadband is coming anytime soon I see that it is scheduled but wondering if anyone knows ACTUALLY when it will happen