Can you get Eircom to upgrade your copper ?

valen

I'm in an urban location, and a number of my neighbours have eFibre. I'm boned though, as the Eircom engineer I got to look at my line says it was run in the 1960s, before they had street cabs, straight to the exchange (which is 4km away).

Is there any way I can get Eircom to run a new line ? I'm tempted to order a second line, and see if that works...

The main reason I'm curious is I get 10mbit max, but most of the time it's closer to 2mb/s - this is the time to download a 1MB file;

Donne

I had a terrible ancient connection of copper to my house over a decade ago. I was getting about 9k over my analog modem.

So I applied for ISDN and they upgraded the link to my house. so that I was getting 64k.

But now I'm stuck, since my connection goes directly to the exchange, rather than the cabinet, so I can't get VDSL.

Excuse the story of woe, but what I wanted to know is how you got directly in contact with an eircom engineer?

valen

Oh, the line completely failed a while back, and he had to run a new length from the road to the house, which got it from completely broken about half the time to working the odd time. When he saw I'd a load of crimping kit around the place and realised I knew what I was talking about (ish), he had no problem opening up about why I couldn't get proper DSL etc.

ED E

BT in the UK do it some times, but eircom havent yet that I've heard of. I suspect its something they'll do after the main rollout phase is finished (1.6mil homes/premises).