Eir rural FTTH thread

guil · 23-06-2016 11:27PM

ads20101 wrote: »

Still not a bad price for what is being offered (if they ever get round to actually filling in those lovely blue lines)

That's openeir pricing. Retail will be higher than that.

ED E · 23-06-2016 11:38PM

guil wrote: »

That's openeir pricing. Retail will be higher than that.

Read the link guil, thats RETAIL pricing.

legocrazy505 · 23-06-2016 11:42PM

ED E wrote: »

Read the link guil, thats RETAIL pricing.

Yeah and even if you don't believe it's retail all you need to do is pop over to eir and see that their broadband+phone 1gbps package is €95 a month after their special offer runs out.

The Cush · 24-06-2016 12:09AM

legocrazy505 wrote: »

Yeah and even if you don't believe it's retail all you need to do is pop over to eir and see that their broadband+phone 1gbps package is €95 a month after their special offer runs out.

The cheapest phoneline + eir Fibre Extreme 1000Mb bundle appears to be €75 p.m. (eir Talk PAYU/direct debit).

tsue921i8wljb3 · 24-06-2016 12:12AM

Is it possible to order the standalone broadband product and if so how? I see no mention of it on the eir site.

The Cush · 24-06-2016 12:14AM

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Is it possible to order the standalone broadband product and if so how? I see no mention of it on the eir site.

It's in their official price list so available to order, as with their other standalone products they don't tend to advertise it I believe.

pegasus1 · 24-06-2016 01:54PM

Ireland would want to hurry up and get the E.U. Funding before it falls apart...

legocrazy505 · 24-06-2016 04:45PM

pegasus1 wrote: »

Ireland would want to hurry up and get the E.U. Funding before it falls apart...

In before "NBP delayed to 2025 as fear over EU collapse stops EU funding to member states".

marno21 · 24-06-2016 05:55PM

Imagine how attractive we'd look to FDI if we had rolled out all this broadband and build all these roads instead of ****acting around the place?

medoc · 25-06-2016 04:24PM

As a country we tend to talk about and plan things for so long to finally build them that they are out of date when finally done. At least with FTTH if we eventually get round to implementing the NBP it'll not be obsolete.

loyatemu · 26-06-2016 11:08AM

marno21 wrote: »

Imagine how attractive we'd look to FDI if we had rolled out all this broadband and build all these roads instead of ****acting around the place?

Aren't we already quite high on the Broadband league tables? And we've built hundreds of kilometres of motorway in the last decade or so, our road network is pretty good.

Where we're lacking in infrastructure is in housing and urban public transport. I don't think MNC's care all that much about the state of broadband in Ballydehob - they're not going to locate there regardless.

MajesticDonkey · 26-06-2016 01:24PM

loyatemu wrote: »

I don't think MNC's care all that much about the state of broadband in Ballydehob - they're not going to locate there regardless.

Can we not worry about the regular Joe Soap in this country for once, instead of just catering for the big companies, half of which pay less than 10% of the tax they're supposed to be paying?

legocrazy505 · 26-06-2016 04:37PM

loyatemu wrote: »

Aren't we already quite high on the Broadband league tables? And we've built hundreds of kilometres of motorway in the last decade or so, our road network is pretty good.

Where we're lacking in infrastructure is in housing and urban public transport. I don't think MNC's care all that much about the state of broadband in Ballydehob - they're not going to locate there regardless.

Doesn't matter what MNCs think, small and medium businesses are the ones that would benefit massively from this. And as the other poster before me said it's about time we thought of maybe building infrastructure that benefits everyone socially and potentially economically if it's done. I'd actually be able to upload more youtube videos if I could upload stuff in an hour or two rather than over an entire night sometimes an entire day. That's potentially more money being brought into the economy and being spent here.

People need to start thinking how this benefits people outside of the "oh well Intel will hardly come to Kerry" crap.

Hank Scorpio · 27-06-2016 06:17PM

Anyone having problems with their Eir service today? Most websites don't load or are very slow. Looks like a DNS issue

daraghwal · 27-06-2016 07:07PM

Hank Scorpio wrote: »

Anyone having problems with their Eir service today? Most websites don't load or are very slow. Looks like a DNS issue

Last night I was and a little bit today. Sync up was fine. Noise margin was fine. I do have congestion but it's never bad enough to completely stop web browsing like last night and this morning. I rang eir and they said the usual we're going to look at the exchange...get back to you in 3-4 working days. Nothing else we can do.. congestion..the usual ****e really.

guil · 29-06-2016 09:46AM

KN are out around donadea in Kildare replacing poles. I asked one of them and he said it was for FTTH.

ads20101 · 29-06-2016 04:26PM

Something is happening in Kilmihil

The KN chaps have been out intermittently laying fibre cable (I know its fibre because I pulled over and asked them) from the Kilrush road up to the exchange in the village for the last month.

Our DSL is massively ****e (there are various threads on this)and has been for years (there is currently 16mb/s coming into the whole village) so I was instantly really hopeful.

I discussed this with eir in their talk-to forum here, but all they would say is that we are on the 2017 - 2020 FTTH plan.

Well.... doh!! .... I knew that from looking at the site. I was really hoping for more info.

The thing that is odd is that the surrounding exchanges (Doonbeg / Cooraclare / Kilrush) all had estimate dates on the map before the fibre was laid in those areas. Here in Kilmihil, nothing has changed on the map except the generic 2017 - 2020 1Gb statement.

I tried contacting openeir via twitter and they were just as vaugue.

I don't know what to think anymore.

ED E · 29-06-2016 05:01PM

They keep NGN dates close to their chest, you may quietly see an overnight improvement in service.

EDIT: Quote goof.

Kristopherus · 29-06-2016 06:30PM

ads20101 wrote: »

Something is happening in Kilmihil

The KN chaps have been out intermittently laying fibre cable (I know its fibre because I pulled over and asked them) from the Kilrush road up to the exchange in the village for the last month.

Our DSL is massively ****e (there are various threads on this)and has been for years (there is currently 16mb/s coming into the whole village) so I was instantly really hopeful.

I discussed this with eir in their talk-to forum here, but all they would say is that we are on the 2017 - 2020 FTTH plan.

Well.... doh!! .... I knew that from looking at the site. I was really hoping for more info.

The thing that is odd is that the surrounding exchanges (Doonbeg / Cooraclare / Kilrush) all had estimate dates on the map before the fibre was laid in those areas. Here in Kilmihil, nothing has changed on the map except the generic 2017 - 2020 1Gb statement.

I tried contacting openeir via twitter and they were just as vaugue.

I don't know what to think anymore.

Is Imagine an option? From looking at their coverage map of Clare, their service seems to be stretching westward from Ennis.

marno21 · 29-06-2016 06:40PM

Kristopherus wrote: »

Is Imagine an option? From looking at their coverage map of Clare, their service seems to be stretching westward from Ennis.

A lot of exchanges in this area aren't getting VDSL, only Doonbeg and Cooraclare are, so Imagine may decide to cover this area as LTE coverage at present is sparse.

Does anyone local to the area know where the location of Clare FM's 95.5 site is? It may be suitable as Imagine seem to be using other companies infrastructure exclusively.

guil · 29-06-2016 07:24PM

ED E wrote: »

They keep NGN dates close to their chest, you may quietly see an overnight improvement in service.

Did you quote the wrong post? I don't live in donadea but work around that area on Wednesday's.

ED E · 29-06-2016 09:22PM

guil wrote: »

Did you quote the wrong post? I don't live in donadea but work around that area on Wednesday's.

Phone had it in the multiquote "cache", derp.

Gonzo · 12-07-2016 02:46PM

after a 3 month break, the KNN lads are back this time closer to my home. They are digging sides of the ditch every 100 meters revealing old Telecom Eireann manholes which Ive never seen before!. They are currently only 400 meters away from my home. I asked them what they were doing and all he would say is 'fiber work'.

medoc · 12-07-2016 04:13PM

Gonzo wrote: »

after a 3 month break, the KNN lads are back this time closer to my home. They are digging sides of the ditch every 100 meters revealing old Telecom Eireann manholes which Ive never seen before!. They are currently only 400 meters away from my home. I asked them what they were doing and all he would say is 'fiber work'.

You lucky b*****d! :-)

ItHurtsWhenIP · 12-07-2016 06:18PM

Gonzo wrote: »

after a 3 month break, the KNN lads are back this time closer to my home. They are digging sides of the ditch every 100 meters revealing old Telecom Eireann manholes which Ive never seen before!. They are currently only 400 meters away from my home. I asked them what they were doing and all he would say is 'fiber work'.

Would ya ever go down to them with a pot of tay and a pack of biccies. You might get a bit more than "fibre work" outta them. :P

damienirel · 12-07-2016 09:58PM

Gonzo wrote: »

after a 3 month break, the KNN lads are back this time closer to my home. They are digging sides of the ditch every 100 meters revealing old Telecom Eireann manholes which Ive never seen before!. They are currently only 400 meters away from my home. I asked them what they were doing and all he would say is 'fiber work'.

Exciting times!

Gonzo · 14-07-2016 12:22PM

MMFITWGDV wrote: »

Would ya ever go down to them with a pot of tay and a pack of biccies. You might get a bit more than "fibre work" outta them. :P

They were here most of Tuesday and dug several areas of ditch/side road to reveal old Telecom Eireann manholes which must have been there since the 60s/70s and were overgrown. KNN sprayed grass seed on top of the soil which was disrupted.

A neighbour had a much more successful chat with them. They were told that they are moving around different locations doing similar tasks such as clearing ducts/revealing manholes etc. They said another team will soon come to the area to start wiring up the fiber, that we should be live in a few months.

The manhole works and the duct clearing is now complete between the cabinet in town and 300 meters from my home which is the heavy duty work done. Once the team comes in to wire up the area hopefully they should move along at a fairly quick rate.

We were told that the final part of the process could be problematic which is the wiring of FTTH into individuals homes, in some cases its easy, in others its not so easy.

The guy also said that once the fiber is installed, thats the broadband network of the area fully sorted, that this technology is gonna be good for many decades, that in time it can be upgraded to faster speeds when needs be.

ItHurtsWhenIP · 14-07-2016 05:34PM

Gonzo wrote: »

...
A neighbour had a much more successful chat with them.
...

Probably because they brought the requisite tay and biccies -

:pac:

garroff · 17-07-2016 01:59PM

Having surveyed my area for FTTH Eir have now installed SOME additional poles, replaced some poles, installed new conductor and cut timber.
I presume this conductor is fibre.
2 questions:
(1) conductor was installed by Eir staff. (Vans had Eir logo on side). Are Eir staff installing fibre....I thought it was contractors only?
(2) How do they tie in fibre with the existing copper to maintain service. There do not seem to be any additional hardware on the poletops to show joints?

jd · 17-07-2016 02:13PM

What do mean by Conductor?

Eir rural FTTH thread

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