Moving house - eir will only install one active service per address

TheRealOC

Morning all,

I'm nearly finished building a house in a semi-rural area in Louth where FTTH Gigabit internet is available.

The only problem is I have a side-hustle restoring and selling vintage computer equipment (DOS PCs, windows 95/98, old 56k modems). There is a hobbyist market for older networking gear and obviously you can get a better price for it if it's tested as working.

So it would be very handy for me to have a separate copper-based connection to the old landline network for use with that old dial-up equipment, and the address is in quite an old area with people that have been living there for a long time, so I'd imagine there must be landline cables running past my site.

But I rang eir and asked them if the site technician would be able to connect up both FTTH and the copper connection (and I could manage both connections through the same monthly bill) and they said their policy is to only have one active service per address.

Just wondering has anyone tried to get a similar setup? Are there any other providers that might be able to make this happen?

Cheers!

The Cush

Add to that they are going to switch off the copper network and transition to fibre only in the coming years with Comreg due to publish the switch off plan in the coming months.

Difficult to see them rolling out a copper line to anyone now.

Explosive_Cornflake

Mkae your own dial-up server and test against that.

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/30/build-your-own-dial-up-isp-now-with-modem-pool/

Or this guy here is testing modems over VOIP over 4g

https://goughlui.com/2019/02/23/teardown-test-webexcel-56k-voice-fax-data-external-modem/

TheRealOC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120414675#Comment_120414675

Thanks for getting back to me, but I'm actually looking for a solution that would allow me to use my vintage equipment on the normal landline network without having to create my own dial-up server or rely on VOIP over 4G. I'm hoping to find a way to have both a fiber-based connection for regular use and a separate copper-based connection for my vintage equipment.

Obviously, if that can't be done, then the dial-up server (or something similar using an ATA device or a media converter) would be the Plan B.

Much appreciated though