Virgin media in Castlebar

RHJ

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naughto

No idea on dates but they are in a good few estates so hopefully not to long.
It's probably just fibre to the cabnit there pulling and not fibre to the house

Westernyelp

naughto wrote:

No idea on dates but they are in a good few estates so hopefully not to long. It's probably just fibre to the cabnit there pulling and not fibre to the house

FTTH I think

godskitchen

Ftth then a converter to coax

The lads doing the rollout are really putting siro to shame. They are moving at a real fast pace

FaganJr

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I didn't see any press releases about this?? Anyone got any links??

Mickeroo

Saw them working on Pound Road last week, seem to have a few crews around the town.

the whole year inn

Any updates when the service goes live?

Mickeroo

Got a leaflet through the door advertising the service so I don't think it should be too much longer. They seem to be moving pretty fast with the rollout anyway.

the whole year inn

Mickeroo wrote: »

Got a leaflet through the door advertising the service so I don't think it should be too much longer. They seem to be moving pretty fast with the rollout anyway.

Could you upload a pic of that leaflet please?

Mickeroo

the whole year inn wrote: »

Could you upload a pic of that leaflet please?

Yeah will do when I get home after work. There wasn't much detail on it though, just an advertisement really.

the whole year inn

Mickeroo wrote: »

Yeah will do when I get home after work. There wasn't much detail on it though, just an advertisement really.

I was on there site and put in my address and there's nothing there even tho I live right where they where doing the upgrades close to the welcome inn.

RHJ

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the whole year inn

RHJ wrote: »

Your best bet is to PM their reps on this site with your address and eircode and they will be able to tell you.

Great idea, thanks.

the whole year inn

the whole year inn wrote: »

Great idea, thanks.

Done that and they couldn't give me a date. But today there literally digging up the road out side my house. Could you upload that leaflet they gave you.

PARlance

the whole year inn wrote: »

Done that and they couldn't give me a date. But today there literally digging up the road out side my house. Could you upload that leaflet they gave you.

Are you sure it was Virgin? Our estate was being dug up today by guys working on Siro.

the whole year inn

PARlance wrote: »

Are you sure it was Virgin? Our estate was being dug up today by guys working on Siro.

Siro be even better, but I stopped and chatted with one of the workers for a few mins, he said it was Virgin Media. Do Siro have any work vans or anything?

naughto

the whole year inn wrote: »

Siro be even better, but I stopped and chatted with one of the workers for a few mins, he said it was Virgin Media. Do Siro have any work vans or anything?

Siro are out by Baxter they have parter up with Westnet

PARlance

the whole year inn wrote: »

Siro be even better, but I stopped and chatted with one of the workers for a few mins, he said it was Virgin Media. Do Siro have any work vans or anything?

Have only seen one Siro van knocking around infrequently. Was chatting to the guys in our estate (Pontoon Rd) and they said it was Siro that they were working on. Quite a few of them, down from Donegal / Derry, the Vans were all DL regs and Tohill was the contractor's name on them.

FaganJr

Anyone get Virgin Media yet??

statto25

FaganJr wrote: »

Anyone get Virgin Media yet??

Its not available yet

FaganJr

statto25 wrote:

Its not available yet

Is there a launch date??

statto25

FaganJr wrote: »

Is there a launch date??

Their availability checker says available soon when I punch in Main Street. I think someone here said their reps were going door to door so will probably available by end of summer.

Kristopherus

statto25 wrote: »

Their availability checker says available soon when I punch in Main Street. I think someone here said their reps were going door to door so will probably available by end of summer.

That availability checker came up with a host of green lights when I entered Pontoon Rd. in it about 3 wks ago. I notice that it has since been pulled from their site.

Actavo are making very good progress with the cabling. We should have installs in Q 4 this year. If that happens, it will put Eir & Siro to shame.

Xenji

Actavo are doing very well, sure Eir cabinets in the town centre were only providing a 24mb service less than a year ago, and only a 100mb maximum now, it will be interesting to see which areas Siro will be available.

Mickeroo

I think they screwed up my internet, they're working in our estate at the moment and I came home to a dead phone line yesterday

Might just be coincidence as the neighbour's is still working but still :pac:

the whole year inn

There fineshed out side mine moved to the estate next t door. They move fast allright

RHJ

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statto25

RHJ wrote: »

There's more work. It appears going on both in Willow Grove and along the pontoon road.

Shame I'm due to have sky installed and the maximum speed they could promise me is 12 Mb per second

12Mb in the town? Doesn't sound right. Where you living?

Xenji

statto25 wrote: »

12Mb in the town? Doesn't sound right. Where you living?

Quite a few places around Castlebar have 12mb and under if you check the Eir coverage map.

statto25

Xenji wrote: »

Quite a few places around Castlebar have 12mb and under if you check the Eir coverage map.

Thats pretty shocking in this day and age. I do know a guy who lives not far out the Newport Road, closest exchange is at the Dunbeg estate but he is connected to the Islandeady exchange. Can only get 4meg down at the best of times.

Mickeroo

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If you're only just getting it installed you should still be within the cooling off period. Only issue is you'll be without internet until Virgin are up and running most likely.

statto25 wrote: »

Thats pretty shocking in this day and age. I do know a guy who lives not far out the Newport Road, closest exchange is at the Dunbeg estate but he is connected to the Islandeady exchange. Can only get 4meg down at the best of times.

When i was renting in St Patricks Av across from the hospital the house was roughly 20 metres from a supposedly live fibre cabinet but couldn't get a fibre connection.

RHJ

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oscarBravo

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There's a sort of jesuitical distinction that needs to be made here.

The NBP intervention isn't directly about the government making sure that every premises in the country has at least 30Mb/s; the intervention is about making sure that there are no areas in the country where it's not considered commercially feasible to provide high-speed broadband services.

Castlebar town isn't one of those areas. Much of the town can already avail of fibre to the home. Most of the rest of it can already get VDSL, and two operators are planning to launch fibre to the premises networks in the very near future.

Sure, there are a number of premises that can't currently get 30Mb/s, but given the scale of the project, DCCAE aren't going to be interested in a town that will soon have three competing fibre networks - and they'd almost certainly fall foul of state aid guidelines if they did.

Now, if there are entire areas of the town where all three operators make it clear that they have no interest in building next-generation networks, then there's a case to be made for adding those areas to the intervention.

RHJ

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oscarBravo

What estate are you in? You can PM me if you like.

RHJ

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oscarBravo

Huh. You should be able to do better than 12M there. In any case, that area is on SIRO's roadmap, but hard to say when.

the whole year inn

oscarBravo wrote: »

Huh. You should be able to do better than 12M there. In any case, that area is on SIRO's roadmap, but hard to say when.

Where can you see where siro road map.

oscarBravo

the whole year inn wrote: »

Where can you see where siro road map.

You can't. :pac:

the whole year inn

Ha well is Davitt Grove on it

oscarBravo

I only have a very high-level overview at this stage, but it should be.

naughto

They are outside my door this morning

ClaptonBay

Apparently 31st August is the go live date for cashlebar.

Kristopherus

ClaptonBay wrote: »

Apparently 31st August is the go live date for cashlebar.

Have you a source for that info? They have barely 50% of the town cabled. Its a pretty tall order that they will have the rest of it cabled by then.

FaganJr

Kristopherus wrote: »

Have you a source for that info? They have barely 50% of the town cabled. Its a pretty tall order that they will have the rest of it cabled by then.

They also quoted my that info when I gave them my EIRCODE , web Chat.

NabyLadistheman

I wonder will they be doing all the town? No sign of any movement out towards Drumconlan

ClaptonBay

Kristopherus wrote: »

ClaptonBay wrote: »

Apparently 31st August is the go live date for cashlebar.

Have you a source for that info? They have barely 50% of the town cabled. Its a pretty tall order that they will have the rest of it cabled by then.

Thats what we were told originally a few days back over the phone but it seems they have changed since and cant guarantee a date or when they expect to be ready to go live. Guess we wont find out until we see the player in the jersey...or in this case the ad in the paper!

FaganJr

ClaptonBay wrote: »

Thats what we were told originally a few days back over the phone but it seems they have changed since and cant guarantee a date or when they expect to be ready to go live. Guess we wont find out until we see the player in the jersey...or in this case the ad in the paper!

I'm sure it will be a phased launch, no point having 100's or 1000's waiting on the same launch date!

naughto

Are we sure that it's ftth at the top of my easte thers one of them green boxes that they use for fibre to the cabnit

They where putting it in today.

Westernyelp

Any idea if white horse lane and that area will be covered?

Kristopherus

Westernyelp wrote: »

Any idea if white horse lane and that area will be covered?

Yep. Type in your address on the Virgin Media website, and W.H lane comes up . Lucky you:D:D:D.