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Home connection to a large piece of infrastructural fibre

  • 26-01-2017 6:20pm
    #1
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭


    Like many rural dwellers, my 'broadband' options are somewhat limited.
    No decent copper wires, no wireless providers that don't have a fair bit of negative feedback on them, ludicrously expensive satellite, no (conventional) fibre to the home/cabinet.
    Currently on 4G with Three, which is mostly okay, but connection speeds are very variable and bandwidth limits are becoming an issue lately.

    However, there's a big fat chunk of fibre running along the roadside not 50 meters from where I'm sitting as I write this.
    There's also, allegedly, a junction box of some sort about 150 meters away.
    At least, that's what the engineers told us they were fitting when they set up a small tent village there for 2 nights and a day to effect repairs when we snagged the cable on a bulldozer blade 10 or 12 years ago :D
    There's certainly a concrete box with steel lids there now anyway.

    So, does anyone know who owns/controls the fibre line alongside the R445 (the old N7, Dublin/Limerick road), and might it be in any way possible (or feasible/affordable) to get a domestic connection off it?


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


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    What you're talking about is core fibre. You can't connect to it.

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    If these blue lines are within 100m of you FTTH is on its way to you.


  • #3
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    Thanks for that!

    Yeah, it's kinda what I suspected, but I figured I'd ask just in case it was a possibility.
    It's a bit galling to know I'm constantly driving over a fibre cable as thick as your leg while having to use a wobbly 3/4G dongle nonsense to connect to the interwebs :(

    The blue planned fibre on the map gets to within 3Km of me and there's a live fibre cabinet at 4Km, but my copper wires take a meandering 10Km before connecting into something vaguely modern.

    Ah well, some day...
    :rolleyes:


  • #4
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    If you're using Three - why not invest in a AYCE SIM from them, shove it in your router and throw €20 per month at it and no limits baby!:P

    It's supposedly only for phones, but it should still work.


  • #5
    Malee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭Malee


    We've had people running broadband cables into our rural village about a month ago.
    Today I saw about 4 of these at different intervals, connected to those new broadband cables, one nearly outside our property. What exactly are they?


  • #6
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    FTTH (fibre to the home) splice box I believe, thread here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057499489

    Blue lines on this map are the planned rural fibre (FTTH) routes, zoom into you location - http://fibrerollout.ie/where-and-when/


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  • #7
    Malee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭Malee


    Thanks for that!
    Yes, the blue line passes by our house and ends about one third of a mile beyond.

    So I would be safe to conclude we will hear shortly about FTTH?
    The Cush wrote: »
    FTTH (fibre to the home) splice box I believe, thread here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057499489

    Blue lines on this map are the planned rural fibre (FTTH) routes, zoom into you location - http://fibrerollout.ie/where-and-when/


  • #8
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Malee wrote: »
    Thanks for that!
    Yes, the blue line passes by our house and ends about one third of a mile beyond.

    So I would be safe to conclude we will hear shortly about FTTH?

    Suggest you read the more recent posts in the other thread I linked to above, lots of discussion about this and post any queries there.


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