Eir rural FTTH thread

daraghwal · 30-09-2016 04:36PM

damienirel wrote: »

I fail to see how eir would treat it any different than a POTS line? Did they not have to run a copper wire up your driveway?

Yes they did. That's what I mean by the phone line I currently have is brought on poles down my avenue. Also meant to say 80m long.

Johnboy1951 · 30-09-2016 04:39PM

daraghwal wrote: »

Yes they did. That's what I mean by the phone line I currently have is brought on poles down my avenue. Also meant to say 80m long.

It seems most likely (almost certain) that the fibre will be brought to the house by the same means.

daraghwal · 30-09-2016 04:47PM

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

It seems most likely (almost certain) that the fibre will be brought to the house by the same means.

Yeah, I presume it will because my lane is an average length but I wonder what will happen for those who have lanes in some cases up to a mile long.

superloopy · 30-09-2016 04:51PM

I hope I'm just being a little thick here but are those FTTH exchanges announced as connected in the first FTTH 100,000 rollout?

daraghwal · 30-09-2016 04:53PM

superloopy wrote: »

I hope I'm just being a little thick here but are those FTTH exchanges announced as connected in the first FTTH 100,000 rollout?

No, just premises passed I presume. It's available to them but they're not connecting people unless you order it

tsue921i8wljb3 · 30-09-2016 04:53PM

superloopy wrote: »

I hope I'm just being a little thick here but are those FTTH exchanges announced as connected in the first FTTH 100,000 rollout?

Yes they are part of the 100000 rollout.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 30-09-2016 07:43PM

Shyboy wrote: »

KN were in my village all day yesterday digging and installing this ducting. Took ages in some places as I think they worked hard to clear blockages, etc. So every eir pole has been left with a loop of this black ducting sticking out of the ground next to it.

So, what is the next stage? Does another team come out and push fibre through this ducting? Our area is down for FTTH from Winter 2016.

Yes that seems to be what happens. I don't know if any poles need to be replaced but obviously that would need to be done also before cabling. If you see poles with a red D nailed to it that pole is due for replacement.

gunnerfitzy · 01-10-2016 09:33AM

Once the infrastructure is in place and the exchange enabled for ftth is Eir the only company that can connect and provide the service to the end user?

I have to say that I'm not thrilled with the idea of having to be restricted to Eir and 75€ pm for 18 months.

jd · 01-10-2016 09:46AM

gunnerfitzy wrote: »

Once the infrastructure is in place and the exchange enabled for ftth is Eir the only company that can connect and provide the service to the end user?

I have to say that I'm not thrilled with the idea of having to be restricted to Eir and 75€ pm for 18 months.

Openeir sell it on a wholesale level to other operators.

Gonzo · 01-10-2016 10:01AM

jd wrote: »

Openeir sell it on a wholesale level to other operators.

I don't think anyone is reselling Eir's FTTH service atm. Vodafone and Digiweb are selling Siro's FTTH but haven't heard of anyone offering Eir's FTTH.

Eir offer FTTH for 75 for 150meg, 85 for the 300meg and 95 for the 1000meg.

oscarBravo · 01-10-2016 11:46AM

Gonzo wrote: »

I don't think anyone is reselling Eir's FTTH service atm. Vodafone and Digiweb are selling Siro's FTTH but haven't heard of anyone offering Eir's FTTH.

Eir offer FTTH for 75 for 150meg, 85 for the 300meg and 95 for the 1000meg.

Any eir reseller can sell their FTTH product.

ED E · 01-10-2016 12:53PM

oscarBravo wrote: »

Any eir reseller can sell their FTTH product.

Can, but aren't necessarily. Vodafone dont which is a big absence.

ACLFC7 · 01-10-2016 01:34PM

At the moment I can't get ANY broadband over my phone line. When FTTH is installed at my house will I have to pay €75 for 150 meg or can I still choose Eirs broadband only package €50 for 100 meg?

Gonzo · 01-10-2016 01:56PM

ACLFC7 wrote: »

At the moment I can't get ANY broadband over my phone line. When FTTH is installed at my house will I have to pay €75 for 150 meg or can I still choose Eirs broadband only package €50 for 100 meg?

If you end up like me being only able to get FTTH, you will not be able to avail of the cheaper FTTC services. Currently Eir do not have a FTTH internet only service, it's all packages according to their website. While im really looking forward to getting FTTH I'll be paying for phone minutes and calls which I've no interest in or use for.

ED E · 01-10-2016 02:14PM

ACLFC7 wrote: »

At the moment I can't get ANY broadband over my phone line. When FTTH is installed at my house will I have to pay €75 for 150 meg or can I still choose Eirs broadband only package €50 for 100 meg?

€55/mo base price for Extreme Standalone 150, 63 for 300 and 75 for 1000.

https://www.eir.ie/opencms/export/sites/default/.content/pdf/pricing/Part3.1.pdf

tsue921i8wljb3 · 01-10-2016 02:56PM

Pure Telecom resell eir FTTH.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/pure-telecom-broadband-ireland-1gbps-open-eir

Gonzo · 01-10-2016 11:56PM

ED E wrote: »

€55/mo base price for Extreme Standalone 150, 63 for 300 and 75 for 1000.

https://www.eir.ie/opencms/export/sites/default/.content/pdf/pricing/Part3.1.pdf

How do you order that? Once your line passes you can only sign up for the 'packages' online. I'd love to get just the standalone 1000 when it comes available to me!.

Has the Open Eir map updated with any other live dates? Can't really check properly from here.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 02-10-2016 12:11AM

Gonzo wrote: »

How do you order that? Once your line passes you can only sign up for the 'packages' online. I'd love to get just the standalone 1000 when it comes available to me!.

Has the Open Eir map updated with any other live dates? Can't really check properly from here.

No updates. Hopefully there will be one over the next few days with it being the start of the month.

ED E · 02-10-2016 02:18AM

Gonzo wrote: »

How do you order that? Once your line passes you can only sign up for the 'packages' online. I'd love to get just the standalone 1000 when it comes available to me!.

Has the Open Eir map updated with any other live dates? Can't really check properly from here.

Probably have to call their telesales and be pretty direct.

daraghwal · 04-10-2016 11:37PM

Huge amount of work going on in enniscorthy, co. wexford. They are digging up a section about a foot wide or a bit more and laying fibre cable under the road. I think it's going from the exchange up one of the blue lines. The road they are putting in down into is the busiest road in the town so there was a lot of traffic management, closing lanes etc for a few weeks. It's down for Winter/Spring.

Ron603 · 05-10-2016 04:35PM

Tree cutting is taking place along the blue line in Killarney, Co Kerry. It's done by KN on behalf of Eir.

The Cush · 06-10-2016 08:44PM

The Cush wrote: »

Our local area is down for FTTH from H2 2017, just noticed this morning lots of poles on the blue-line route have D labels tacked to them, poles beyond the indicated blue lines of equal or worse condition have no label. No hedge cutting happening yet.

Out walking today and I met one of the open-eir lads checking and labelling defective poles for replacement. All poles in the area are being checked, including those beyond the planned rural FTTH routes (blue lines).

In the process he was identifying each pole's location using the pole's barcode and GPS coordinates and loading this into their ipad map, each pole on the map was represented by a red or green dot. The blue lines we're familiar with on the open-eir map are represented as red lines on their ipad map and match the blue line routes. Hedge cutting is planned for the months ahead.

Gwynston · 07-10-2016 09:57AM

KN Group are contractors for FTTH, right?
I passed a van of theirs this morning and some lads working on the poles along our road (north of Claregalway on the side road to Corrandulla).

What's promising is that they were working at around the point where the blue line on the rollout map ends coming from the cabinet on the N17 at Loughgeorge. (There's a seperate blue line coming from the Corrandulla end but the cab there on the N84 Headford road is not upgraded yet)

Which means if they're working backwards from that end point to the N17 live fibre cab (which is connected to the Claregalway exchange), they'll be going right by my house which is on the road! :cool:

ED E · 07-10-2016 10:18AM

KNN do civils, OpenEir telco and civils, ESB civils and SIRO FTTH as well as a few other bits. Basically have their hands in every pie. But it does sounds like OpenEir works.

Mr Velo · 07-10-2016 11:03AM

Gwynston wrote: »

KN Group are contractors for FTTH, right?
I passed a van of theirs this morning and some lads working on the poles along our road (north of Claregalway on the side road to Corrandulla).

What's promising is that they were working at around the point where the blue line on the rollout map ends coming from the cabinet on the N17 at Loughgeorge. (There's a seperate blue line coming from the Corrandulla end but the cab there on the N84 Headford road is not upgraded yet)

Which means if they're working backwards from that end point to the N17 live fibre cab (which is connected to the Claregalway exchange), they'll be going right by my house which is on the road! :cool:

I'm waiting for Corrandulla to be enabled too..... still showing as 2017-2020 though.

Gwynston · 07-10-2016 11:36AM

Mr Velo wrote: »

I'm waiting for Corrandulla to be enabled too..... still showing as 2017-2020 though.

Luckily I'm not waiting for Corrandulla. The blue line from that cabinet ends around the corner from me near the cemetery.
I'm on the blue line coming from the other end - the cabinet at Loughgeorge. That's been fibre live for a few months, but I'm over 2km away so can't get fibre over the copper wire

The Claregalway exchange that it's connected to says "Winter 2016 / Spring 2017". So I was pleasantly surprised to see them working on it as the Turloughmore cab says "Winter 2016" which suggested to me it would be earlier in the FTTH pecking order (even though Lackagh/Turloghmore was upgraded later than the Loughgeorge/Claregalway)

Mr Velo · 07-10-2016 11:43AM

Gwynston wrote: »

Mr Velo wrote: »

I'm waiting for Corrandulla to be enabled too..... still showing as 2017-2020 though.

Luckily I'm not waiting for Corrandulla. The blue line from that cabinet ends around the corner from me near the cemetery.
I'm on the blue line coming from the other end - the cabinet at Loughgeorge. That's been fibre live for a few months, but I'm over 2km away so can't get fibre over the copper wire
The Claregalway exchange that it's connected to says "Winter 2016 / Spring 2017". So I was pleasantly surprised to see them working on it as the Turloughmore cab says "Winter 2016" which suggested to me it would be earlier in the FTTH pecking order (even though Lackagh/Turloghmore was upgraded later than the Loughgeorge/Claregalway)

Lucky you.... Corrandulla is still an ADSL1 exchange i believe..... and not only that... it's line of sight connected to Mervue... not even fiber connected. Think that one will be 2020 for sure - and probably more.

long_b · 07-10-2016 12:02PM

Mr Velo wrote: »

Lucky you.... Corrandulla is still an ADSL1 exchange i believe..... and not only that... it's line of sight connected to Mervue... not even fiber connected. Think that one will be 2020 for sure - and probably more.

OpenEir have now said all blue likes will be done by 2018

tsue921i8wljb3 · 07-10-2016 06:32PM

The map was updated today. Unfortunately there are no new dates given for the first 100000 premises. Rahan in Offaly which was announced already is now the only area with a due date listed (12th October).

BuzzG · 07-10-2016 07:44PM

Fibre on poles in Caherlistrane Co.Galway today .. it's on the Belcare exchange which is part of the first 100,000 ... not messing around

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