One mile limit!?! What?

segadreamcast

I was talking to an eircom rep. on Monday - I told him I was about 1.5km from the exchange (and that was overestimating I believe - more 1.3) anyway, he said "Ah yes, well the limit is one mile, which is less than 1.5 km"

He also repeated himself again in a latter point of the conversation - can someone confirm this? I always thought it was more than one mile...

=BoA=Raider

To the best of my knowledge its over a mile. I think when I rang eircom I was told it was about 5km (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm still not sure even if you are under the distance required that you will pass the test. It also depends on the quality of the phone line.

Patrick

yeh come on NoelRock you gotta stay in within limits. I mean u can't be over 1.5km. You should know that.

Leave eircom alone to sort out their brilliant service :rolleyes:

carbsy

Even if your exchange has been upgraded to ADSL,the installation site cannot be more than 3.5km from the exchange.

Eircon will also be introducing another variation called RADSL which in effect extends the reach from 3.5km to 5.5km,while line noise can now be as high as 55db but your upstream speed will lower as a result in steps of 32kbits/sec.

Dustaz

Carbsy where did you hear they would install RADSL? Ive never seen them say they would. In fact in another thread they are reported as saying they wouldnt be upgrading to it any time soon.

carbsy

Dustaz,

I was merely stating that they would be introducing it.I know it probably wont be anytime soon...

Just wanted to give the lads some hope like

dahamsta

"Just the facts, ma'am."

segadreamcast

Jeez, there's an Eircom engineering place about 0.2/0.3km away from here - I wanna go there someday and bother everybody about adsl...

It's kind of like my own religious pilgrimage.

Lemming

Originally posted by NoelRock
Jeez, there's an Eircom engineering place about 0.2/0.3km away from here - I wanna go there someday and bother everybody about adsl...

It's kind of like my own religious pilgrimage.

Take a shotgun with you whilst you're at it

/note ./. I am slightly drunk as I write thsi ..... no doubt my spellingt can attribute tio that

ando

Originally posted by carbsy
Eircon will also be introducing another variation called RADSL .

No their not, where is your info coming from?

I went to the DSL dealer launch and asked Paul robinson from eircom about Radsl. He said there was no chance of eircom introducing radsl. Radsl is totally different, like sdsl or vdsl.. he said eircom is consentrating on adsl

Mayshine

Oh, lest not forget that a mile is 1.61 kilometers, not less than 1.5 as that useless eircom rep said

ceejay

So does anyone know for sure what the max distance is, given that your line would otherwise be OK?

I just got an email back from eircom stating that my line failed the test , but the exchange is not that far away. I'm not sure the exact distance, but I'm going to check it out this weekend in the car

What are my options? Can I get a retest? Or is that it? If/when Esat get to roll it out here in Dublin, will I have the same problem? Should I just go ahead and bite the bullet and get so-called-hi-speed?

dathi1

I've just applied for eircom dsl at my parents address...it should be interesting to see if I fail the line test as I was an Esat DSL Trialist there last October and had a 1mb down 256 up connection. The esat test engineer said that my line was the best test results he had seen so far on the Esat trials. I live right beside the exchange so Eircon better have a valid excuse for line failure.

Coyote

at best it’s just a guess about 3.5K from the exchange being the limit, but
you need 3.5K of good quality copper phone line.
You might be less than 3K as the crow fly’s to the exchange but more that That when you follow the phone line.
Plus the 3.5K is just a guide, and if there is bad copper or if they have Your housing estate could have 30 houses on a dax box (the bigger one’s can be used for splitting lines for more that one house) then that’s sitting in-between you and the exchange so without getting them to install a new line with as short a route as possible from the exchange too you there’s not much you can do.

carbsy

Originally posted by ando


No their not, where is your info coming from?

I went to the DSL dealer launch and asked Paul robinson from eircom about Radsl. He said there was no chance of eircom introducing radsl. Radsl is totally different, like sdsl or vdsl.. he said eircom is consentrating on adsl

I read that in a post on the report from that very DSL Dealer launch where RADSL was mentioned.They have to introduce it at some stage for people that simply are not close enough or have poor quality lines.Obviously no date has been mentioned etc.