Eir rural FTTH thread

yabadabado

Grumpypants wrote: »

Kinvara was listed for live on April 5th. We couldn't order until then and when i did they said it wont be live until may 3rd. So they would arrange tge install after that date.

Likely be similar enough for kilcolgan. Order may 5th then install in June.

Folks who are ye ringing to get that info?
I rang Eir on Thursday and they hadn't a clue if my exchange was live even though it says it is on the checker.

They said I'd get a call back but honestly not expecting one.

Jpmarn

Vodafone are ringing up their dsl customers in areas about to be served by ftth in the fairly near future. My brother who lives next door to me is being phoned about offers of a new contract. We live in the Inch St Lawernce exchange area in Co. Limerick serving the villages of Caherconlish and Ballyneety. No definite date of going live except Spring/Summer 2017. Some ducting work has been done on my road in the past 2 to 3 weeks ago. According to some earlier posts on this thread Vodafone are not selling ftth connections. Therefore I told my brother that he would be leaving Vodafone and joining Eir, Pure Telecom or Digiweb.

daraghwal

Jpmarn wrote: »

Vodafone are ringing up their dsl customers in areas about to be served by ftth in the fairly near future. My brother who lives next door to me is being phoned about offers of a new contract. We live in the Inch St Lawernce exchange area in Co. Limerick serving the villages of Caherconlish and Ballyneety. No definite date of going live except Spring/Summer 2017. Some ducting work has been done on my road in the past 2 to 3 weeks ago. According to some earlier posts on this thread Vodafone are not selling ftth connections. Therefore I told my brother that he would be leaving Vodafone and joining Eir, Pure Telecom or Digiweb.

Is it possible that Vodafone are starting to resell eir's FTTH? Siro say 'fibre to the building' not fibre to the home for SIRO and they only serve towns so they must be talking about eir's product if they said FTTH or eir fibre which is actually FTTCabinet, in which case it would be speeds up to 100Mb, not 1000Mb. Siro is only down as planned in Limerick so I doubt it's that. Is it possible it is FTTC? Did they definitely say fibre to the home? Great if they are actually going to resell it. Would help those stuck in a vodafone contract a lot! I doubt vodafone were ringing about FTTH if they are not going to resell it themselves?

Grumpypants

yabadabado wrote: »

Folks who are ye ringing to get that info?
I rang Eir on Thursday and they hadn't a clue if my exchange was live even though it says it is on the checker.

They said I'd get a call back but honestly not expecting one.

It is really hit and miss. I rang twice and got onto chat 3 times. Half of them had no idea, one on tge 3rd or 4th of april said call after the 3rd of may as it wasnt live in the system as it is due to go live then. Chat agent on the 5th april said it was live and i could order so i did, but ive heard nothing since.

You can do it online.

Pocaide

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Gonzo

Wouldn't be surprised if Vodafone are thinking of reselling Eir ftth, they are losing customers fast in my area at least, the other exchanges are probably similar. Dongles/ ADSL can't compete with reasonable priced ftth

daraghwal

Gonzo wrote: »

Wouldn't be surprised if Vodafone are thinking of reselling Eir ftth, they are losing customers fast in my area at least, the other exchanges are probably similar. Dongles/ ADSL can't compete with reasonable priced ftth

I've just asked them on here. I'll update here if I get anything back.

garroff

Rang tech support this week and asked if they will use Efibre. They said "no". I then shifted to Eir. € 52..BB with home phone. Pay for phone call only if I use phone. Paper billing.
Openeir are installing fibre on my road. Road marked light blue on map

Gonzo

When it comes to ftth Eir are the best to move to amazing ping and great network and no problems after your installed

ED E

Gonzo wrote: »

When it comes to ftth Eir are the best to move to amazing ping and great network and no problems after your installed

Its still the same garbage billing platform, you've just been lucky.

chewed

Gonzo wrote:

getting slightly faster downloads than ever tonight, just did a speedtest, normally get about 286, getting 290 tonight, my fastest speedtest yet!

Are you on the 300mb package?

long_b

chewed wrote: »

Are you on the 300mb package?

He is, yes.

Also, how are you finding the router in terms of stability Gonzo?

Gonzo

long_b wrote: »

He is, yes.

Also, how are you finding the router in terms of stability Gonzo?

yep on the 300meg package.

Everything is going great except for one thing. I am having issues with the wireless signal on my Huwawei P9 Lite phone. The phone always shows full wifi signal, however quite often the internet stops working for several seconds at a time then comes back and goes again, very intermittent. The wireless is perfect on the PS4, TV and laptops, its just not performing well on my phone for some reason.

long_b

Gonzo wrote: »

yep on the 300meg package.

Everything is going great except for one thing. I am having issues with the wireless signal on my Huwawei P9 Lite phone. The phone always shows full wifi signal, however quite often the internet stops working for several seconds at a time then comes back and goes again, very intermittent. The wireless is perfect on the PS4, TV and laptops, its just not performing well on my phone for some reason.

Hmmm
This on 2.4 or 5.2?
Have you kept your existing router on or are you replacing it with the new one?

Gonzo

long_b wrote: »

Hmmm
This on 2.4 or 5.2?
Have you kept your existing router on or are you replacing it with the new one?

on 2.4. I cant pick up the 5.2 on my phone or laptops.

Gonzo

just after noticing when I do speedtests on my phone, it says when you click into the result, how much data is transferred and it's alot more than I expected. 106 down and 46 up on a result and it used 114mb to download and 55mb to upload. When I was on 9 down and 0.4 up it would use 10mb download and 1mb upload.

So at a guess the 300 down and 50 up speedtest on ethernet are using about 370mb of data per speedtest run. If your on 1000 /100 you would be using about 1100 megs of data per speedtest run, so with the 1tb of data transfers a month, speedtests really need to be kept to a minimum.

Ron603

I successfully pre-ordered ftth today through the web chat. 75 euro per month for standalone (phone is included, but if you don't use it then you don't pay for it) 1000 Mb with a 12 month contract. I live in Killarney, the expected live date is 3rd of May.

Gadgetman496

Ron603 wrote: »

I successfully pre-ordered ftth today through the web chat. 75 euro per month for standalone (phone is included, but if you don't use it then you don't pay for it) 1000 Mb with a 12 month contract. I live in Killarney, the expected live date is 3rd of May.

Why can't they offer Broadband only? What's with having to take phone but not paying if you don't use it?

Gonzo

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

Why can't they offer Broadband only? What's with having to take phone but not paying if you don't use it?

that is broadband only. Didn't get a phone with mine, perhaps I can get a VOIP phone at some later stage.

chewed

Gonzo wrote: »

that is broadband only. Didn't get a phone with mine, perhaps I can get a VOIP phone at some later stage.

Did you order your package online? When I check on the eir site I don't see any option to remove the phone add on. It says "This product cannot be removed from your order as it is an integral part of the bundle you selected"

Gonzo

chewed wrote: »

Did you order your package online? When I check on the eir site I don't see any option to remove the phone add on. It says "This product cannot be removed from your order as it is an integral part of the bundle you selected"

Yeah I ordered online, when the order went through it said Eir Extreme 300 and Eir Talk, however the price is for broadband only. I think they mean a Voip phone can be added later, not sure what the situation with that is but I didn't get a phone and don't pay for line or calls unless I choose to make them If I had a phone!.

chewed

Gonzo wrote: »

Yeah I ordered online, when the order went through it said Eir Extreme 300 and Eir Talk, however the price is for broadband only. I think they mean a Voip phone can be added later, not sure what the situation with that is but I didn't get a phone and don't pay for line or calls unless I choose to make them If I had a phone!.

Gotcha! I'm interested in getting the 300mb deal. I'm thinking of going with the TV and getting rid of Sky. I'm going to decide in the 14 days if I want to get rid of the TV add on. I would love to know if I can then jump back onto the 12 month contract? As soon as I select TV as an add on, the contract time period jumps from 12 to 18 months.

Gonzo

chewed wrote: »

Gotcha! I'm interested in getting the 300mb deal. I'm thinking of going with the TV and getting rid of Sky. I'm going to decide in the 14 days if I want to get rid of the TV add on. I would love to know if I can then jump back onto the 12 month contract? As soon as I select TV as an add on, the contract time period jumps from 12 to 18 months.

Eir's FTTH is very good but I'm not sure about the tv service. It is very limited compared to Sky, no Sky Atlantic, not sure there is even Sky One or Sky News. You can add the Sky Cinema and Sky sports channels, but apart from those the lineup is mostly 'free to air satellite or Freeview channels'. No option to tune in ITV, Channel 5. The interface takes a bit of getting used to.

Sky is probably the most expensive for TV but you get a decent box and have a wider range of channels.

Ron603

chewed wrote: »

Did you order your package online? When I check on the eir site I don't see any option to remove the phone add on. It says "This product cannot be removed from your order as it is an integral part of the bundle you selected"

I ordered through the online chat, the Eir salesperson informed me that standalone ftth broadband also includes phone services which are optional.

Ron603

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

Why can't they offer Broadband only? What's with having to take phone but not paying if you don't use it?

Well I'm going to pay 75 euro for broadband only, phone services are charged extra IF I end up using them. So I'm going to get charged for broadband only in the end, I have no intentions on using the VOIP services in the future.

Peppa Cig

chewed wrote: »

Gotcha! I'm interested in getting the 300mb deal. I'm thinking of going with the TV and getting rid of Sky. I'm going to decide in the 14 days if I want to get rid of the TV add on. I would love to know if I can then jump back onto the 12 month contract? As soon as I select TV as an add on, the contract time period jumps from 12 to 18 months.

I guess the Eir TV is all internet based?
So watching Rte1 eats into your 1TB allowance ?

Or do they install an aerial/satellite?

Gonzo

Peppa Cig wrote: »

I guess the Eir TV is all internet based?
So watching Rte1 eats into your 1TB allowance ?

Or do they install an aerial/satellite?

Eir Tv is all internet based, however I don't think it eats into the 1tb allowance as the Eir TV is seperated from the internet connection and the bandwidth used to run Eir TV is subtracted from your overall connection speed.

Peppa Cig

Gonzo wrote: »

Eir Tv is all internet based, however I don't think it eats into the 1tb allowance as the Eir TV is seperated from the internet connection and the bandwidth used to run Eir TV is subtracted from your overall connection speed.

That's interesting, thanks

https://www.eir.ie/extreme/

Extreme broadband, Mobile 100 + 1GB
looks like an intesting deal for me

€65 per month for 12 months (so same as 300mb broadband only)

Then €110 for 6 months which is obviously a lot but factoring in €100 cash back plus the mobile sim (which is worth €15 a month to me as can give to one of kids) it works out at €60 month for 18 months with bonus of

1000mb
Eir TVs
Free landline call and mobile uk/Ireland
Free smartphone (nothing too hectic)

long_b

Gonzo wrote: »

just after noticing when I do speedtests on my phone, it says when you click into the result, how much data is transferred and it's alot more than I expected. 106 down and 46 up on a result and it used 114mb to download and 55mb to upload. When I was on 9 down and 0.4 up it would use 10mb download and 1mb upload.

So at a guess the 300 down and 50 up speedtest on ethernet are using about 370mb of data per speedtest run. If your on 1000 /100 you would be using about 1100 megs of data per speedtest run, so with the 1tb of data transfers a month, speedtests really need to be kept to a minimum.

Suspected as much.

So on the 1Gb plan, if you're budgeting your allowance to keep under the 1TB per month, running one speedtest would take 3% of your daily budget

And I looove running speed tests

chewed

Ron603 wrote: »

I ordered through the online chat, the Eir salesperson informed me that standalone ftth broadband also includes phone services which are optional.

when you order through online chat or at the front door, do you still get all the discounts (e.g. €100 cashback and new customer deals)?