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Switching Self Installation?

  • 01-03-2020 1:04pm
    #1
    Brian2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭


    Have Eir fibre coming from overhead poles, want to switch to Vodafone fibre, do I still need a technician to come out to install?


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  • #2
    smuggler.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,256 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    Brian2011 wrote: »
    Have Eir fibre coming from overhead poles, want to switch to Vodafone fibre, do I still need a technician to come out to install?
    ..and if some go wrong who do you blame...?
    history of boards 2021




  • #3
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Vodafone Fibre is SIRO and Eir’s isn’t so it’s completely different fibre so yes you’ll need a technician - are you sure you can get SIRO?


  • #4
    Brian2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭Brian2011


    smuggler.ie wrote: »
    ..and if some go wrong who do you blame...?

    Don't understand you, vodafone work off the same lines as Eir, Do I just need to connect up vodafone modem or does a technician have to do something out at the black distribution box thing on the pole to get me connected?


  • #5
    Brian2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭Brian2011


    Kaison Grumpy Babble wrote: »
    Vodafone Fibre is SIRO and Eir’s isn’t so it’s completely different fibre so yes you’ll need a technician - are you sure you can get SIRO?

    No We definetely can't get Siro, but checked eircode on vodafone website and it says we can get fibre? confused now, My local town is not Siro connected yet


  • #6
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Interesting, perhaps Vodafone sell both, but they're one of the founding partners of SIRO.


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  • #7
    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,033 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    If it is coming over the same infrastructure (Eir's lines), then you will not need a technician. You should be able to self install by swapping the routers.


  • #8
    dam099
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭dam099


    Kaison Grumpy Babble wrote: »
    Interesting, perhaps Vodafone sell both, but they're one of the founding partners of SIRO.

    They do sell both now (initially was only SIRO for FTTH). Where both Eir and Siro FTTH are available in the same area they would push SIRO but the Eir FTTH rollout wouldnt overlap much (nor is it likely to) so presumably they want access to that market.

    They have also been pushing to move people off VDSL to FTTH, initially seemed to be in SIRO areas as presumably thats more in their interest given their stake in it, but they just tried to push my parents to move and they are in an Eir only FTTH area.


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