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SIRO Fiber Broadband Installation

  • 30-10-2018 2:06pm
    #1
    illingworth22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    I am considering ordering SIRO Fiber Broadband but I have a couple of questions on both the installation, service and the equipment used.

    Vodafone are offering a 12 month contract for 25 euro per month for 6 months and 45 thereafter. I take it the broadband comes into the house to the main electric meter and then gets run into the house by a fiber cable, is this correct or is it run into the house via CAT6?

    Once the fiber is in the house do you use a supplied router provided by your ISP and is the router fed with broadband via CAT 6 or a fiber connection? My reason for asking is that I have a Node 0 room at present and from here my Virgin router connects to my Archer C9, in the living room, via Cat6 and I don't have a fiber connection from node 0 to the home router, the Archer in my case.

    Do, Vodafone in my case, the ISP offer a dynamic or a static IP address and if it is dynamic can I run my "No IP" on the supplied router.

    Realistically how long a wait do you have from sign up to installation?


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  • #2
    Marlow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    SIRO bring fibre all the way into your house. This requires drilling.

    If it comes in ducted, then typically through the ESB meter and from there they run a fibre cable to the nearest double-socket inside of your house. Generally the installers are accomodating enough to bring it to a place, that suits you .. if it's not too awkward.

    If it comes in overhead, they can enter the house wherever suits you.

    From there the ISPs router is connected via cat5e/cat6 cable to the ONT (optical network termination).

    You can replace the router, if you want. If you sub for TV and/or VoIP with Vodafone, you might loose that if you replace their router. It may be different with other SIRO providers.

    To replace the Vodafone router, you need a router, that can handle PPPoE and Vlan tagging (Vlan 10) on the WAN interface. This limits your choices. You also need to make sure, that the router you use has enough CPU power to handle the speeds you subscribe to. A lot of routers don't handle Gbit/s speeds ... it's not enough that they have Gbit/s ports.

    All of the other questions you really need to ask the SIRO provider you are ordering from.

    /M


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