Eir rural FTTH thread

Darkglasses

Finally got a 20m Cat6 cable in to do my full speedtest. I am delighted with this

grouchyman

Was due to get fibre installed today, but it wasn't to be.

Bringing the line in from the pole would have left it hanging too low at the wall of the house. but it would be so low down that a child playing with a stick or something like that could bring it down.

After a good discussion with the KN Engineer the only viable option is to put it under ground, but that means digging up the lawn and a concrete path. I won't be doing that this year.

Disappointing, but sure there ye go! If anybody's got a suggestion which could save the lawn etc, I'd appreciate hearing it.

Thanks

Indestructable

RoYoBo wrote: »

I have conflicting dates from Eir and Open Eir - Eir said July 19th (still not happening on my road) and Open Eir told me November by email, twice (which looks more likely). My entire area is included in the live figures for June! Make of that what you will ....

Hi, do you have the email address that you used for open eir? I emailed them on one but never got any acknowledgement at all. Thanks.

frozenfrozen

grouchyman wrote: »

Was due to get fibre installed today, but it wasn't to be.

Bringing the line in from the pole would have left it hanging too low at the wall of the house. but it would be so low down that a child playing with a stick or something like that could bring it down.

After a good discussion with the KN Engineer the only viable option is to put it under ground, but that means digging up the lawn and a concrete path. I won't be doing that this year.

Disappointing, but sure there ye go! If anybody's got a suggestion which could save the lawn etc, I'd appreciate hearing it.

Thanks

I'd crawl through a river of **** and come out splicing fibre if it was me

vintagevrs

grouchyman wrote: »

Was due to get fibre installed today, but it wasn't to be.

Bringing the line in from the pole would have left it hanging too low at the wall of the house. but it would be so low down that a child playing with a stick or something like that could bring it down.

After a good discussion with the KN Engineer the only viable option is to put it under ground, but that means digging up the lawn and a concrete path. I won't be doing that this year.

Disappointing, but sure there ye go! If anybody's got a suggestion which could save the lawn etc, I'd appreciate hearing it.

Thanks

How does the phone line come in? Not sure what is causing the line to come in so low? Can it not be run from the pole to the top of the Gable or chimney?

vintagevrs

Indestructable wrote: »

Hi, do you have the email address that you used for open eir? I emailed them on one but never got any acknowledgement at all. Thanks.

Try this

fibrepower@openeir.ie

RoYoBo

vintagevrs wrote: »

Try this

fibrepower@openeir.ie

That's the one I used - might take a few days.

Indestructable

vintagevrs wrote: »

Try this

fibrepower@openeir.ie

Thanks lads, that's the one I used alright. Will give it another while.

Johnboy1951

RoYoBo wrote: »

That's the one I used - might take a few days.

What information did you provide them with? Your eircode?

RoYoBo

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

What information did you provide them with? Your eircode?

Eircode and name - don't know if name was necessary.

vintagevrs

Having a look at my own set up here in anticipation of this ftth arriving some day. I'm confident that getting the fibre to the box on the side of the house should be straightforward. There's underground ducting from the pole to the box on the house so should be able to pull the fibre through. Trying to figure out the next step though. We live in a two story detached house and the master socket for the phone is in the hot press, upstairs in the middle of the house. There is a cat5 cable running from the external box up through the house and a copper pair from it is used to get the master socket where it is. From reading this thread though the installer will only put fibre 1m or something into the house so theres no way he will run the fibre to the hot press, even if he could.

So what does he do with the fibre? Does he drill through the wall of the house where the external white box is and put the fibre inside where that box is or what?

Not really sure what they'll do and this could be an issue.

grouchyman

vintagevrs wrote: »

How does the phone line come in? Not sure what is causing the line to come in so low? Can it not be run from the pole to the top of the Gable or chimney?

My house is a bungalow one of those with no gable end. So the existing phone line has to come in low to get under the eaves. The engineer says that the fibre cable has to be about a foot below the current line. Hence my problem. The engineer was quick to say that they don't do attics roofs or chimneys.

RoYoBo

Our phone line comes in at the high gable end of our bungalow (70s build) before doing some kind of magical mystery tour, ending up at the switch plate on the opposite side of the house in the hall. The modem then travels via attic cable to a bedroom in the middle of the house.

Our phoneline was hit by lightning a number of years ago and the Eircom guy who came to fix it did some kind of 'shenanigan' work by attaching a second phone plate beside the first one, joined by a plug-in cable. I am dreading the installation hoops we are going to have to jump through as a result.

The Cush

Less of a magical mystery tour with FTTH it would appear, fibre cable to the house, then routed externally to a point where it enters the house up to 1m for connection to the ODP/ONT.

RoYoBo

The Cush wrote: »

Less of a magical mystery tour with FTTH it would appear, fibre cable to the house, then routed externally to a point where it enters the house up to 1m for connection to the ODP/ONT.

Our line enters the house at the attic though - I have no idea how they would manage to effect an entry point anywhere else? I did see Gonzo's pictures farther back in the thread, where it seemed to wend its way in externally (I think).

We have a porch at the front, with double sealed doors there - more than a metre to get into the house anyway. Similar at the back. Can they use the sides of windows maybe?

The Cush

RoYoBo wrote: »

We have a porch at the front, with double sealed doors there - more than a metre to get into the house anyway. Similar at the back. Can they use the sides of windows maybe?

Very few install pics posted here other than Gonzo's, difficult to know what way they are doing it now since the attic ban was enforced.

RoYoBo

The Cush wrote: »

Very few install pics posted here other than Gonzo's, difficult to know what way they are doing it now since the attic ban was enforced.

If I ever get connected, I'll post how ours gets done. But, as OpenEir told me via email, I won't be holding my breath for anything before November!

knipex

grouchyman wrote: »

My house is a bungalow one of those with no gable end. So the existing phone line has to come in low to get under the eaves. The engineer says that the fibre cable has to be about a foot below the current line. Hence my problem. The engineer was quick to say that they don't do attics roofs or chimneys.

That is nonsense.

My fiber comes off the pole, just along side my old copper line and attaches to the gable probably 3 feet above the copper point..

Although to be fair the fiber does run through my attic (I ran it myself and then down into its location)

plodder

grouchyman wrote: »

My house is a bungalow one of those with no gable end. So the existing phone line has to come in low to get under the eaves. The engineer says that the fibre cable has to be about a foot below the current line. Hence my problem. The engineer was quick to say that they don't do attics roofs or chimneys.

I have a similar situation. Why can't the fibre just take the same path as the existing line? I don't follow this "has to be a foot below the current line" business.

knipex wrote:

My fiber comes off the pole, just along side my old copper line and attaches to the gable probably 3 feet above the copper point..

He said his house doesn't have a gable end. If it's like mine, it's a four sided roof so to speak.

knipex

plodder wrote: »

I have a similar situation. Why can't the fibre just take the same path as the existing line? I don't follow this "has to be a foot below the current line" business.


He said his house doesn't have a gable end. If it's like mine, it's a four sided roof so to speak.

yes but why does it have to be below the copper. Its above the copper in my house..

plodder

knipex wrote: »

yes but why does it have to be below the copper. Its above the copper in my house..

If you have a gable then it can go three foot above the copper. In my house it can't, the copper comes in at the level of the eaves. Higher than that would be through the roof, lower would be too low.

grouchyman

plodder wrote: »

If you have a gable then it can go three foot above the copper. In my house it can't, the copper comes in at the level of the eaves. Higher than that would be through the roof, lower would be too low.

My problem as well. Do you have the underground option plodder?

plodder

grouchyman wrote: »

My problem as well. Do you have the underground option plodder?

It's gets messy once you get near the house, which is why I'm trying to understand what the problem is. Are you keeping the copper phone line as well?

snowstreams

I wasnt given an option of getting a copper line. I was told the VOIP option was all I could get.
Thankfully the VOIP line works perfectly with standard old phones anyway.

If it makes it easier you should drop the copper line.

Blogin

I just got a reply from that fibrepower@openeir.ie

Estimated availability by end of October. That's 6 months after the area went live.

grouchyman

plodder wrote: »

It's gets messy once you get near the house, which is why I'm trying to understand what the problem is. Are you keeping the copper phone line as well?

I am yeah. I was wondering about getting rid of it would that work? Would I be able to keep my current number?

Y'see I bring home turf in a trailer about 4 loads in all and the tractor & trailer would have to pass under the fibre. At the moment i can use a garden fork to raise the copper wire to let the tractor through with no issues, but could I do that with the fibre?

RoYoBo

Blogin wrote: »

I just got a reply from that fibrepower@openeir.ie

Estimated availability by end of October. That's 6 months after the area went live.

I hope you keep us updated here - you're due to be connected a month before me. The estimated timeline is similar too - our area was declared live for June, while the OE estimate for my connection is November.

If you get connected in October, I can start rubbing my hands in anticipation ...

ACLFC7

There's a note on http://fibrerollout.ie/rollout-map/ which says that the next map update will be on the 10th August.

tsue921i8wljb3

ACLFC7 wrote: »

There's a note on http://fibrerollout.ie/rollout-map/ which says that the next map update will be on the 10th August.

That is a large gap between updates. You would think that at this time when they are, or should be, at peak workload there would be plenty of passed premises to report.

garroff

Our road scheduled to go live today. Lots of vans in vicinity but I do not believe fibre will be available for some time