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Eircom pole numbering

  • 27-04-2015 7:23am
    #1
    rustalan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Just wondering can you tell anything from the numbering that Eircom place on the boxes on top of their poles? In my case i'm connected to a fibre enabled cab. From the cab to my house is about 1.5km along a road. However, my line stats suggest that the line length is closer to 4km. The number on the box that sits on the pole connecting my house is 040 003. The cab number is 040. The pole beside the box is 040 016 and at various points along the road the numbers increase from my house to the cab i.e. 003, 004, .... 016. Is this just random or does it mean anything?

    Also a new cab is in place to service a new estate currently being built half way between my house and the current cab. Do you get automatically placed into the closer box when its completed?


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  • #2
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    rustalan wrote: »
    Also a new cab is in place to service a new estate currently being built half way between my house and the current cab. Do you get automatically placed into the closer box when its completed?

    No, for the most part they don't seem to be moving lines like this, it is expensive and difficult to do.

    I believe they have done it in one or two places, but for the most part no.

    I could see them doing it in future, once the low hanging fruit of rolling out FTTC cabs is completed. However I think it is more likely that they will skip this and go straight to rolling out FTTH instead.


  • #3
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    rustalan wrote: »
    From the cab to my house is about 1.5km along a road. However, my line stats suggest that the line length is closer to 4km.

    Are these your ADSL stats? That indicates to the exchange not the cab.


  • #4
    rustalan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭rustalan


    ED E wrote: »
    Are these your ADSL stats? That indicates to the exchange not the cab.

    I was always under the assumption that the stats were distance to the cab? Just from reading posts here guys always talk of distance to the cab and how that is a factor in the speed of their connection?

    When the KN guy came out to install the connection he told me he placed my in the 040 cab.


  • #5
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    rustalan wrote: »
    I was always under the assumption that the stats were distance to the cab? Just from reading posts here guys always talk of distance to the cab and how that is a factor in the speed of their connection?

    When the KN guy came out to install the connection he told me he placed my in the 040 cab.

    If you read stats before the fibre upgrade thats exchange to house.
    If you read stats after the fibre upgrade thats cab to house.

    Theres no way you're getting VDSL at 4k anyways.


  • #6
    rustalan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭rustalan


    Yeah they are the stats after the fibre.

    I know I won't get VDSL I was just wondering about the numbering on the poles for determining distances. From other posts i know you mentioned that the cables could be run in unusual ways that adds a lot of length to the run. I was only wondering with an eye on the FTTH rollout and trying to figure out that even though the line length is 4km I'm only about 1.5 -> 2km away from the cab. Hopefully they don't use line stats to determine house distance to the cabs and eliminate those that are greater than a max distance of Eircoms choosing. I'm probably making no sense here. Basically, Im hoping for FTTH (like everyone) but Im hoping I don't get eliminated because of a stat that says im 4K away when Im actually far less (as the road lies). But I guess what other way do they have of determining distance.


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