eir in anticipation of FTTH or ADSL

J@yK@y

Hi

About to move into a house in next weeks. The property already has 5mb ADSL with sky. I notice that we are on the blue line for FTTH with planned live date winter 2016/spring 2017.

Question: should I sign up with Eir in hope I can upgrade to FTTH when available (will they allow
upgrade?) or should I go ahead and take sky ADSL bundle with tv (getting sky tv anyway). Not sure if my best option here. Your advice is appreciated.

We have VM 120mb currently and kids are heavy users of YouTube, gaming, etc

Thanks

Gonzo

J@yK@y wrote: »

Hi

About to move into a house in next weeks. The property already has 5mb ADSL with sky. I notice that we are on the blue line for FTTH with planned live date winter 2016/spring 2017.

Question: should I sign up with Eir in hope I can upgrade to FTTH when available (will they allow
upgrade?) or should I go ahead and take sky ADSL bundle with tv (getting sky tv anyway). Not sure if my best option here. Your advice is appreciated.

We have VM 120mb currently and kids are heavy users of YouTube, gaming, etc

Thanks

If your used to VM fiber speeds, then 5megs is gonna be torture especially with a family of heavy usage used to a great connection. Since your down for Winter2016/2017 same as my exchange, i'd say go with Eir and wait for that FTTH.

The only problem that may happen is not all blue routes are finished in 1 go so the route your on may or may not be part of the first live dates for your area. Check to see if there is fiber on the poles beside the new house.

ED E

Get Sky TV but Eir BB.

superloopy

I'm about there km from my exchange and I'm getting 3.8 down. That's with sky. Checking the line says 5 down is possible. I was with eir before and their max was 2.8. From what I have experienced and read sky will try to get you the max the line can handle. Eir don't.

I'm also on a blue line but mid 2017 could be years away yet going by Eirs record. If I have a choice to not use Eir I won't and my experience with sky has been better.

ED E

superloopy wrote: »

I'm about there km from my exchange and I'm getting 3.8 down. That's with sky. Checking the line says 5 down is possible. I was with eir before and their max was 2.8. From what I have experienced and read sky will try to get you the max the line can handle. Eir don't.

Nope. Changing provider got your port profile refreshed. If you'd called eir and changed your package up you'd have got the same speed (it may have only become available shortly before you moved).

Atari Jaguar

If you're on 120mbps don't change to 5 anyway that's ridiculous.

murphaph

J@yK@y wrote: »

Hi

About to move into a house in next weeks. The property already has 5mb ADSL with sky. I notice that we are on the blue line for FTTH with planned live date winter 2016/spring 2017.

Question: should I sign up with Eir in hope I can upgrade to FTTH when available (will they allow
upgrade?) or should I go ahead and take sky ADSL bundle with tv (getting sky tv anyway). Not sure if my best option here. Your advice is appreciated.

We have VM 120mb currently and kids are heavy users of YouTube, gaming, etc

Thanks

That's some speed drop you're prepared to take!

J@yK@y

murphaph wrote: »

That's some speed drop you're prepared to take!

Yeah but to be expected. We are moving from a built up town to rural location. 5mb is probably even better than we expected.

However once(if?) this FTTH kicks in we should be good again. Fingers crossed

Thanks all for input!