Eir rural FTTH thread

Grumpypants

Gonzo wrote: »

speedtest and dos pings are accurate but don't reflect real world gaming pings. The majority of Irish gamers would play on servers that are based in the UK and continental Europe as Ireland hosts very few gaming servers unfortunately.

Do you have BF1? EA have servers in Dublin. It would be interesting to see what ping you get on Irish BF1 servers.

I'm worried that when I get my new connection and I'm still terrible at online shooters I can't blame my poor connection anymore

Gonzo

Grumpypants wrote: »

Do you have BF1? EA have servers in Dublin. It would be interesting to see what ping you get on Irish BF1 servers.

I'm worried that when I get my new connection and I'm still terrible at online shooters I can't blame my poor connection anymore

I don't play BF1. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000's I was still in my 20s and a first person shooter fan, would have given me arm for this connection/ping back then. Now that I have the ping, my fps reflexes are just really bad, time to take the online gaming much more casually now.

chewed

I'm still wondering should I go with 300mb option or 150mb! At home, it's only me, my wife and 15 year old son. He plays online in the evenings a bit (currently this is eating into my 4G monthly limit). Other than that, I'd download movies now and again as well as stream stuff from my Sky box (including Sky Go).

Is it worth going for the 300mb contract?

Grumpypants

chewed wrote: »

I'm still wondering should I go with 300mb option or 150mb! At home, it's only me, my wife and 15 year old son. He plays online in the evenings a bit (currently this is eating into my 4G monthly limit). Other than that, I'd download movies now and again as well as stream stuff from my Sky box (including Sky Go).

Is it worth going for the 300mb contract?

You can always upgrade, you can't downgrade without a fee.

150 is loads, but on the other hand it is only a few extra euro for 300....and a small few more for 1000:)

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it's always easier to upgrade and give eir more money than it is to downgrade. This applies to most services/utilities.

I'm in a similar situation, am going with 150Mbps. Should be loads for 3 people. After all 85Mbps copper eFibre does businesses with anywhere from 1 employee to 30 all on at the same time.

Grumpypants

I'm going with the 1,000mbps. Screw it, I've been waiting almost 20 years for good internet so I'm going to go crazy.

Plus when I actually looked at upgrading I would get a discount from my existing €115 to €87 for 6 months and then it goes to €130. So on balance I was able to justify it to myself.

chewed

Grumpypants wrote: »

I'm going with the 1,000mbps. Screw it, I've been waiting almost 20 years for good internet so I'm going to go crazy.

Plus when I actually looked at upgrading I would get a discount from my existing €115 to €87 for 6 months and then it goes to €130. So on balance I was able to justify it to myself.

Ha! you're right. I'm in the same boat and feel like a kid in a sweet shop. I've been 12 years putting up with 3G and 4G. And 1,000mb is only €240 more per year than 150mb. Decisions, decisions!!!

irishgrover

Grumpypants wrote: »

Do you have BF1? EA have servers in Dublin. It would be interesting to see what ping you get on Irish BF1 servers.

I'm worried that when I get my new connection and I'm still terrible at online shooters I can't blame my poor connection anymore

honestly, I think I had better warn you. I've been playing BF for years and in the last few years noted I was getting really bad. I put it down to the rest of the world on faster connections and me staying behind on a ****ty one.
I was upgraded to fibre a few weeks ago, and to my genuine horror have discovered that I'm actually just ****e at FPS gaming...... it's been the single biggest disappointment of the whole broadband saga of the last few years...

Pangea

Think Il go for the 150mbs and eir talk unlimited mobile & uk, is it free calls to any mobile in Ireland or just Eir mobiles?

Ron603

What speeds can one expect over wifi if you get the 1Gb package? Let's say that you're in the same room as the router, and I'm aware that there are many factors that affect the speed. Would 600Mb be achievable if the device supports the technology?

What router​ does Eir supply? Is it the F2000?

Tom Mann Centuria

My dsl was cut off today but my fibre didn't get switched on, so I'm stuck with nothing. (3g on my phone) Various phone calls have told me it should be on today, or tomorrow, or Thursday, or randomly the 24th (which is probably what it'll be). Some of the phone calls involved me explaining I had already got the shiny equipment in my house (since last Tuesday) and didn't need it to be installed again. Frustrating but still hopeful the left hand will figure out what the right hand is doing.

pegasus1

Gonzo wrote: »

I don't play BF1. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000's I was still in my 20s and a first person shooter fan, would have given me arm for this connection/ping back then. Now that I have the ping, my fps reflexes are just really bad, time to take the online gaming much more casually now.

Practice Gonzo..Practice gets the mind working with the fingers..Sadly not a fps player for a good few years..but I will get back into it.. sometime..

John mac

Ron603 wrote: »

What speeds can one expect over wifi if you get the 1Gb package? Let's say that you're in the same room as the router, and I'm aware that there are many factors that affect the speed. Would 600Mb be achievable if the device supports the technology?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103092518&postcount=2352

if your connecting via wifi results will be lower ..

Pangea

Why does Eir want my bank details when ordering extreme fibre?

daraghwal

Pangea wrote: »

Why does Eir want my bank details when ordering extreme fibre?

Direct Debit?

rob808

Pangea wrote: »

Why does Eir want my bank details when ordering extreme fibre?

If you don't want to pay Direct Debt you can pay through post office with paper bill but they charge you 2 euro extra if you do it that way.

Pangea

rob808 wrote: »

If you don't want to pay Direct Debt you can pay through post office with paper bill but they charge you 2 euro extra if you do it that way.

Thanks Can't I just continue to pay online whenever the bill comes out like I do now?

Sytax Error

Gonzo wrote: »

ring Eir sales, tell them your situation, they may be able to pay off some of that contract and switch you over to FTTH.

It's not a great business decision for Vodafone to not resell Eir's FTTH especially over the next year when rural FTTH sales will really take off.

Ditto to @gonzo
My neighbour signed up to Eir today, currently using Imagine, they have to pay a €100 get out fee, but Eir will refund this in their first bill.

rob808

Pangea wrote: »

Thanks Can't I just continue to pay online whenever the bill comes out like I do now?

yea sure can't see why not

ED E

I thought ALL new customers had to be DD now.

long_b

ED E wrote: »

I thought ALL new customers had to be DD now.

I think the poster is an existing Eir customer Ed.

Today's the day our exchange goes live for FTTH according to the Rollout map. Have a more accurate date of May 3rd from Pamela on here and the sales rep.

Don't think anything happens today? Maybe some lucky people will be installed?

Gonzo

long_b wrote: »

I think the poster is an existing Eir customer Ed.

Today's the day our exchange goes live for FTTH according to the Rollout map. Have a more accurate date of May 3rd from Pamela on here and the sales rep.

Don't think anything happens today? Maybe some lucky people will be installed?

most likely 1 to 2 days after an area goes live is when people start to get installs. The installs can only be arranged by Eir once the premises is showing up as live on their system and untill that happens, the order will be put on hold or cancelled if it's ordered a few weeks too early like in my case and a few of my neighbours.

MBSnr

Apparently just passed 40,000 rural fibre connections...
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadband-open-eir-fibre-rural-ireland

halkar

Does extreme fibre use the existing phone socket or a new one installed?

long_b

MBSnr wrote: »

Apparently just passed 40,000 rural fibre connections...
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadband-open-eir-fibre-rural-ireland

Thanks for this.
Naturally all figures are unofficial till Navi confirms them.

T-Bird

long_b wrote: »

Thanks for this.
Naturally all figures are unofficial till Navi confirms them.

Agree. A lot of the new connections (including my own one) are already up and running according to the line checker at eir.ie. Whereas most of them will actually go live fist week in May. This is also the same with the cabinets.

ACLFC7

halkar wrote: »

Does extreme fibre use the existing phone socket or a new one installed?

A new socket has to be installed Like this :

KOR101

MBSnr wrote: »

Apparently just passed 40,000 rural fibre connections...
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadband-open-eir-fibre-rural-ireland

I love all the round numbers. Seriously, that IS the way to get interviews.

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ED E wrote: »

I thought ALL new customers had to be DD now.

Giggity.

Gonzo

MBSnr wrote: »

Apparently just passed 40,000 rural fibre connections...
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadband-open-eir-fibre-rural-ireland

decent honest video. I liked the way at the end she admitted that Eir does carry baggage and a reputation from the past which they are trying very hard to fix, first time I've heard them admit that.

Very true as well that they are the only provider doing anything about rural Ireland.

If it wasn't for Eir I would still be sitting with these speedtests.