Gonzo wrote: » 5 days per week averages at about 27km per day Monday-Friday, about 22 work days per month.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Spilt over an unknown number of crews. I tend to agree with you though. I think it is very unlikely to be completed by March 2017.
damienirel wrote: » Hi Gonzo - I think I would have been skeptical about the dates too but I think they won't be too long rolling this out - I'd assume they are busy getting the exchanges ready at the moment. Running the new fibre lines will be a very quick job - what will take time I'd imagine is actually getting it setup in the home. A new line went up a year or 2 ago in a field near me to service a new house - what I'm wondering is have they already ran a fibre line on it? Maybe somebody here could answer that?
Gonzo wrote: » With many places down for Autumn/Winter 2016, others down for Winter/Spring 2017 and the extent of coverage to be wired for the first 100,00 homes, I thought several areas would be well heading towards completion by now. It's now 1st September and still no signs of any wiring taking place and that's what worries me. Perhaps the wiring process will go much faster than I'm thinking but if were still all sitting in the same boat waiting by October I would really begin to question will anywhere see it live before Christmas! Fingers crossed next week we will see/read multiple reports of areas getting wired up. Once an area is wired up, I would imagine there would be a bit of a wait for testing etc before the product becomes orderable.
daraghwal wrote: » When you think about it, it is still possible that it could be done by March. We simply do not know how much work has gone on in exchanges to date. For all we know it could be just a matter of rolling the wire out which could potentially be a very straight forward process. Have faith people! I was talking to an eir technician (nothing to do with the rollout, just fixing my line) who said he was in the exchange one day when a planning crew came in and started working on the exchange in relation to the ftth rollout. This was a couple of months ago in a rural exchange with a FTTH due date of Winter 2016/Spring 2017 according to the fibrerollout.ie map.
Pique wrote: » If you're down a side road a few hundred metres from the blue line, would there need to be a cabinet to split off a fibre line to you?
Pique wrote: » How about copper line connecting to the fibre, would that be on the cards?
_kookie wrote: » I think that once the line is run that the job of connecting into houses should be outsourced. You should be able to use several different companies competing with each other for it. The way it is now they have a captive market and can take as long as they like to get it into the customers house.
jd wrote: » Seems to be available now in Parts of the Killinick Exchange area (Wexford, near Johnstown Castle).
MMFITWGDV wrote: » Nope - you won't get it until the NBP rolls around. What you are referring to here is G.FAST, which some on here have said is a possibility where there is a cluster of houses close by (500m range of the DP). But there has been nothing formally stated yet.
Pique wrote: » Ach. Just checked the distance. I'm looking at 1km off the blue route. I'm snookered then I take it. Imagine or wait for NBP, yeah?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Would that area have been part of the 100000 rural rollout? Sorry it is. I just checked the openeir announcement.
MMFITWGDV wrote: » There's a thread about Imagine's service here. At first it seemed all was brilliant, but there are more recent poor performance reports coming in.
Gonzo wrote: » I checked a bit more around the area and it seems only that small estate is activated, further up the road in another estate there is nothing currently available and it's blue lined as well. Perhaps this is an initial test area. Surprising as well that Eir have not announced this FTTH live in their weekly tech bytes updates. The exchange is further down the road in a different village and there is no FTTC rollout in the area, it's a straight to FTTH exchange.
MMFITWGDV wrote: » Did you check back through them all? I have a suspicion that in one of Marno21's posts there was some FTTH announced at least once a few months back.
BALLYFARNAN Estimated date for first live FTTH with speeds up to 1000Mb/s is 28 Sep
Athboy (Meath) 1070 premises in this exchange can now access up to 100Mb/s fibre broadband. Estimated date for live 1000Mb/s fibre is 28 Sep
ACLFC7 wrote: » My exchange (Brittas) says "Estimated date for first Live FTTH Fibre Services with speeds up to 1000Mb/s is H2'2017". What does H2 mean? Does it mean 2nd half of 2017?
