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What defines whether you can get fibre

  • 30-03-2015 9:23pm
    #1
    DRice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭


    Hi I am on a Vodafone adsl line and the line is gone off for testing to see if I can get some kind of fibre (to the cabinet). The sandyford exchange is about 1.6km away. What defines how it comes back. Is it the quality of the line and the distance to the exchange? Is it possible that my neighbour could get fibre but I couldn't as his line is better? Assume we are the same distance to the exchange for the same of argument . Would I have a better chance if my line was adsl2+. I don't fully understand the technology so forgive me if some of what I have said is rubbish. The cabinet that I refer to is very near my house.


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


    Exchanges directly serve up to 2000m of cabling away at most for "Fiber"(VDSL2). Cabinets are the same.

    If you and your neighbour are both within 2KM of that cab and both already run through it you're both eligible. But if your line bypasses it(usually a legacy thing from TE days) and his doesnt, he gets it you dont, unless you're within 2km of the exchange then you get it slower.

    Sandyford is an FTTH area, see if vodafone can get you put on that, it'll be faster than even the shortest VDSL line (and symmetric!).


  • #3
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    ED E wrote: »
    Exchanges directly serve up to 2000m of cabling away at most for "Fiber"(VDSL2). Cabinets are the same.

    If you and your neighbour are both within 2KM of that cab and both already run through it you're both eligible. But if your line bypasses it(usually a legacy thing from TE days) and his doesnt, he gets it you dont, unless you're within 2km of the exchange then you get it slower.

    Sandyford is an FTTH area, see if vodafone can get you put on that, it'll be faster than even the shortest VDSL line (and symmetric!).

    Vodafone don't do FTTH connections, they only do FTTC, Eircom May offer you FTTH

    Find your local cab http://irelandoffline.org/map/#/home


  • #4
    sparky63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭sparky63


    Whether your line is ADSL or ADSL2+ has no bearing on whether you can get fibre. Its distance from the fibre ports which determine eligibility.

    Ports could be located in either of the two below.

    Your Line comes from the telephone exchange but passes through a roadside cabinet: Fibre ports are in the cabinet.

    Your line comes from the local telephone exchange directly to your house, this is direct fed with no cabinet in between. So your fibre ports are in the exchange.


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