Eir rural FTTH thread

Tweaky

Eircode Checker is telling me
Your premises is not on the rural fibre rollout programme. Please visit our rollout map to see if high speed broadband is already live in your area or visit this link to learn more about the national broadband plan.

Very strange considering there is a splitter box with a DP number on the pole just outside my front garden. All neighbours eircodes getting the same result.
Don't seem to have their act together at all !!

d31b0y

Mine is first half 2017 but when I contacted the Eir reps on here I got;

I have checked our deployment plan and unfortunately, your home is not yet on it.

We can't guarantee this service to every customer, however, if you get back to us in a couple of months we can check to see if there is an update on the service being available to you at this address.

Guess I will wait till I start seeing work on my road.
I think it's been asked before but I can't find an answer now... Is there a limit to how close you have to be to the road? My house is down a private lane about 200 meters from the road.

snowstreams

There is no limit in distance as long as your house is along a blue line on this map:
http://fibrerollout.ie/where-and-when/

d31b0y

snowstreams wrote: »

There is no limit in distance as long as your house is along a blue line on this map:
http://fibrerollout.ie/where-and-when/

Well, the private lane is. Does that makes sense?

Edit: private lane, 4 houses on the lane. My house is the last one.

rob808

daraghwal wrote: »

http://fibrerollout.ie/eircode-lookup/
Finally

Dam I cant check on my mobile phone for some reason i have to wait till I go home.

Chieftain

daraghwal wrote: »

http://fibrerollout.ie/eircode-lookup/
Finally

Is that eircode lookup referring to FTTH? I can currently theoretically get fibre broadband but max speed is 7mbs due to the distance from the exchange. The eircode checker tells me:

"Great news. Your premises is on open eir’s 300k rural fibre rollout programme. We expect fibre broadband to be available to you by the second half of 2017."

The other map tells me the FTTH is scheduled for Winter/Spring 2018, so a bit confused

Johnboy1951

Chieftain wrote: »

Is that eircode lookup referring to FTTH? I can currently theoretically get fibre broadband but max speed is 7mbs due to the distance from the exchange. The eircode checker tells me:

"Great news. Your premises is on open eir’s 300k rural fibre rollout programme. We expect fibre broadband to be available to you by the second half of 2017."

The other map tells me the FTTH is scheduled for Winter/Spring 2018, so a bit confused

So are they ...... everything is an estimate so to be taken with a cellar of salt!

daraghwal

rob808 wrote: »

Dam I cant check on my mobile phone for some reason i have to wait till I go home.

If you request desktop site in chrome/safari settings it will work, I had the same problem

Chieftain

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

So are they ...... everything is an estimate so to be taken with a cellar of salt!

they are laying cable right outside my house today so fingers crossed it might happen sometime soon

plodder

First half of 2017 for me! Though the map says Spring/Summer 2017. Either will do.

As an experiment, I checked a house that is about 50m past the end of one of the lines and it says No deal unfortunately, which is interesting.

Gwynston

Say 1st half of 2017 for my eircode too, which is better than the map which says "Summer/Autumn 2017" for Claregalway.

daraghwal

Is there anyone with all their neighbours passing but not your eircode? I'm not passing (down a lane about 70m) and my neighbour isn't passing (opposite side of the road with a lane of the same length). Everyone else on the road is passing and the yellow line continues a few km past my laneway. Everyone else on the road has H2

Neighbours: Great news. Your premises is on open eir’s 300k rural fibre rollout programme. We expect fibre broadband to be available to you by the second half of 2018.
Me and neighbour across the road: Your premises is not on the rural fibre rollout programme. Please visit our rollout map to see if high speed broadband is already live in your area or visit this link to learn more about the national broadband plan.

plodder

daraghwal wrote: »

Is there anyone with all their neighbours passing but not your eircode? I'm not passing (down a lane about 70m) and my neighbour isn't passing (opposite side of the road with a lane of the same length). Everyone else on the road is passing and the yellow line continues a few km past my laneway. Everyone else on the road has H2

Neighbours: Great news. Your premises is on open eir’s 300k rural fibre rollout programme. We expect fibre broadband to be available to you by the second half of 2018.
Me and neighbour across the road: Your premises is not on the rural fibre rollout programme. Please visit our rollout map to see if high speed broadband is already live in your area or visit this link to learn more about the national broadband plan.

If the yellow line doesn't go down your lane, then I can understand why the system is saying you're not on it. Whether that is what actually materialises is another question. I'd be slightly concerned about it.

daraghwal

plodder wrote: »

If the yellow line doesn't go down your lane, then I can understand why the system is saying you're not on it. Whether that is what actually materialises is another question. I'd be slightly concerned about it.

Hopefully they'll just add it when wiring up. Over a year and a half away at least anyway

Tom Mann Centuria

Moron question (to go with my previous ones), so, apologies.

Does the 300k indicate maximum speeds or something else? Also, it says on the eircode lookup and eir website I can already get fibre which I can't the little fibbers, but sounds like I'm a hell of a lot closer than some, so definitely can't grumble.

Great news. Your premises is on open eir’s 300k rural fibre rollout programme. Fibre broadband is already available to you.

Edit:
I'm a plum, the 300,000 is the number of houses being connected. /plum

daraghwal

plodder wrote: »

If the yellow line doesn't go down your lane, then I can understand why the system is saying you're not on it. Whether that is what actually materialises is another question. I'd be slightly concerned about it.

Hopefully they'll just add it when wiring up. Over a year and a half away at least anyway...

redfacedbear

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Moron question (to go with my previous ones), so, apologies.

Does the 300k indicate maximum speeds or something else? Also, it says on the eircode lookup and eir website I can already get fibre which I can't the little fibbers, but sounds like I'm a hell of a lot closer than some, so definitely can't grumble.

300k is the number of premises they intend to provide FTTH service to. I got the same message about fibre being already available - but I'm around 1km from an FTTC enabled cabinet - so I think that's what they are referring to.

Tom Mann Centuria

redfacedbear wrote: »

300k is the number of premises they intend to provide FTTH service to. I got the same message about fibre being already available - but I'm around 1km from an FTTC enabled cabinet - so I think that's what they are referring to.

Yeah, I scrolled up the page slightly after I posted .

How will I be able to find out what speeds I will get? I'm not sure why I am too bothered, because after a few years of 2.7mb download speeds pretty much anything I get above that will be a dream!

ACLFC7

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Yeah, I scrolled up the page slightly after I posted .

How will I be able to find out what speeds I will get? I'm not sure why I am too bothered, because after a few years of 2.7mb download speeds pretty much anything I get above that will be a dream!

If you're on a yellow line on the map you'll be able to 1000Mb/s fibre broadband. It doesn't matter how far you are from the exchange.

Tom Mann Centuria

ACLFC7 wrote: »

If you're on a yellow line on the map you'll be able to 1000Mb/s fibre broadband. It doesn't matter how far you are from the exchange.

Thanks ACLFC7, I'm over thinking this, bit like a child at Christmas.

Jpmarn

I used the Eircode checker with my Eircode and I got Great News. Extreme Fibre will be available in the first half 2017. There is preparation work on the local phone network preparing underground ducts for fibre cabling. I am in the Inch St. Lawernce Co. Limerick exchange area due to go live spring summer 2017,

Tweaky

Tweaky wrote: »

Eircode Checker is telling me
Your premises is not on the rural fibre rollout programme. Please visit our rollout map to see if high speed broadband is already live in your area or visit this link to learn more about the national broadband plan.

Very strange considering there is a splitter box with a DP number on the pole just outside my front garden. All neighbours eircodes getting the same result.
Don't seem to have their act together at all !!

Ok ran the check again from home. I am getting the result I would expect which is first half 2017 - light at the end of tunnel.
It may have been the internet and firewall at work. Routes through the UK. That was the cause of the false readings I was getting.

John1993W

So according to http://fibrerollout.ie/eircode-lookup/ I am between two houses that can get fibre, the line bypasses the house further on, the splice box directly outside the home and has been tampered with by KN/Diffusion, and eir are still telling me we can get 5mbps.

The line that continues (further from exchange) and hits a t-junction 50m after my home and splits left and right. Randomly picked homes can get it according to open eir's new Eircode checker either side of the junction.

tsue921i8wljb3

Can anyone tell me the diameter of the fibre cable that is brought into the home please?

Allison Puny Appetite

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Can anyone tell me the diameter of the fibre cable that is brought into the home please?

The fibre installed is a pair of 2mm diameter cores, it looks like bell wire.
One live, one spare I assume.

tsue921i8wljb3

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The fibre installed is a pair of 2mm diameter cores, it looks like bell wire.
One live, one spare I assume.

Thanks. What is the outer diameter?

Allison Puny Appetite

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Thanks. What is the outer diameter?

It's a figure of 8 about 5mm x 2.5mm

iioklo

ACLFC7 wrote: »

If you're on a yellow line on the map you'll be able to 1000Mb/s fibre broadband. It doesn't matter how far you are from the exchange.

Not sure if this is true now, I'm in the center of a small town witch has the yellow lines on the map. Yet the Eircode checker is saying we are not in the 300k rural rollout. My area is currently being cabled up, with lots of poles and splice box's done, If i check the Eircodes of house's where the fiber on the pole's begins it says that they are going to get FTTH. A KN worker said to me that the town might not get it because we can get eFiber(VDSL) from the exchange. If this is the case Eir are going to miss thousands of potential customers with their Premium product because the town and souround has a denser population. Also to get to the out of town areas the fiber cable has to be brought through the towns underground ducting. why would they bypass the busisness and homes in the town.

Anybody here in a small town with FTTH installed?.

Gonzo

iioklo wrote: »

Not sure if this is true now, I'm in the center of a small town witch has the yellow lines on the map. Yet the Eircode checker is saying we are not in the 300k rural rollout. My area is currently being cabled up, with lots of poles and splice box's done, If i check the Eircodes of house's where the fiber on the pole's begins it says that they are going to get FTTH. A KN worker said to me that the town might not get it because we can get eFiber(VDSL) from the exchange. If this is the case Eir are going to miss thousands of potential customers with their Premium product because the town and souround has a denser population. Also to get to the out of town areas the fiber cable has to be brought through the towns underground ducting. why would they bypass the busisness and homes in the town.

Anybody here in a small town with FTTH installed?.

most towns show the yellow lines running along main routes on route to the outer more rural areas. In most cases FTTH will not be made available to these urban areas because they already have fast FTTC available. These yellow lines should perhaps be removed from town centres and housing estates which wont be upgraded for FTTH to avoid confusement. I would guess at a later stage if Eir announce an urban rollout once the rural one is finished, then I guess these areas may get FTTH but it's year's away.

godskitchen

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The fibre installed is a pair of 2mm diameter cores, it looks like bell wire.
One live, one spare I assume.

Surely both fibres are used...

One tx and one rx