Gonzo wrote: » At this stage I would read little into those estimated times. Were down for Winter 2016 and not a sign of any work in months, there is only 10 working weeks left to Christmas! thats very little time left for so many places to be enabled for Winter 2016. Also looking at the 5 exchanges that have gone live they seem to be only doing certain portions of the blue lines. Youghal for instance got fairly well looked after with only a small amount of premises left to enable but Virginia has only had a fraction of it's blue lines area enabled. KNN/OpenEir don't really talk to the public and the website is giving very little if any information away about forthcoming dates and which lines are being enabled, all very frustrating for the many people living in hope of something happening soon.
Shyboy wrote: » Well, things are ploughing ahead in Turloughmore. Two weeks after KN installed the ducting, three large KN/Eir trucks were in our village yesterday putting the fibre up on the poles. They did about a third of the village and finished the day about 5 houses away from me... I hope they are back again today to finish the rest...including me...
Gwynston wrote: » That's good to hear! :cool: Can you give us a feel for where the one third of the houses are? e.g. take a snapshot of the map of the area and highlight the roads done? Is it just the immediate Turloughmore village, or have you seen any activity around the neighbouring Lackagh cabinet? I'd like to get a feel for what sequence they're branching out and whether connected cabinets are part of the initial work.
Gwynston wrote: » That's promising - Laraghmore is about as far as any blue lines on the map stretch from the Turloughmore exchange. In fact, I'm almost as close to the west of Turloughmore. But my blue line is from the Loughgeorge cabinet that's on the Claregalway exchange which is labelled "Winter 2016 / Spring 2017". I think that's one step behind the Turloughmore label "Winter 2016". So I won't hold my breath...
Shyboy wrote: » Yes, I would say that I am the second last house on one of the blue lines, so I am chuffed that they have the fibre up. Does anyone know if after the fibre is up on the poles, is this the last stage of FTTH rollout in an area? or is there more work to be done?
Gwynston wrote: » What's the ducting for BTW? I presume the fibre cables themselves just hang between the poles in a similar manner to existing wires? So where's the ducting and what goes in it? And following up Shyboy's question - does anyone know what needs to be done once the cable is in place and connected to the exchange? How does the connection work from the pole to the house - is there a fibre cable needed and a new Eir box?
damienirel wrote: » Aye new line into house to replace the copper lark - this is the sort of shizzle you'll need...https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSiGCb9vn_C7x35o2futALnUR5PtUMvA448Ct2hLz4CzZkv0VV7nQ ONT -> Optical Network Terminal
garroff wrote: » Who supplies the socket in the house?. Does ISP provide or customer?. Will this socket be situated where copper now terminates in hallway?
Gadgetman496 wrote: » I know those that have waited for soooooo long will be delighted to get it, but it's one ugly setup compared to cable.
damienirel wrote: » Actually I don't see how it differs from a cable setup if the BSU/ONT/wifi router was all in the one box. In fairness it blows cable away. It could look like my ar$e for all I care.
Gwynston wrote: » And following up Shyboy's question - does anyone know what needs to be done once the cable is in place and connected to the exchange? How does the connection work from the pole to the house - is there a fibre cable needed and a new Eir box?
The Cush wrote: » Links to some install pics and subsequent discussion posted here late last year - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99818268 The physical demarcation point for open-eir's FTTH service (service termination point) is the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) in the end user's premises, beyond this responsibility passes to the ISP. open-eir will install a remote data point from the ONT if requested during the initial order. See open-eir's IPM, pages 90 & 160 for details - http://www.openeir.ie/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3985 also their Technical Handbook, pages 54 & 63 - http://www.openeir.ie/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2785
long_b wrote: » Looks like "500+ works orders are released from our Build Control Centre every month in our #RuralFibre rollout (link: http://www.openeir.ie/ruralfibre) openeir.ie/ruralfibre" equates to.. not that much visible activity around the place then going by this thread ?
Gonzo wrote: » I think those 500+ work orders can mean anything from repairing a fault on a phone line to checking poles and laying fiber, I could be wrong tho. There is very little happening at the moment except in a few select areas and in those areas we don't seem to have boards.ie users filling us in on the progress!.
damienirel wrote: » great time to start hanging fibre off poles just as winter kicks off!
Gonzo wrote: » at this stage I've resigned to the fact I am probably not gonna be live till at least February 2017. But I would at least like to see the place wired up before Christmas. Once the place is wired up there is usually a 4-6 week wait before ordering can take place and then another wait for the install. Very little will happen anywhere from Friday 17th December to Tuesday 3rd January. Other issues are bound to happen from now on as well such as winter storms.
damienirel wrote: » Yup exactly! Not the ideal time of year for that sort of work. Shorter days too.
Gonzo wrote: » No doubt this knock on effect may cause more delays unless they really get the ball rolling with an increased number to guys working on it from January. So far the progress has been very dissapointing. for example Dunshaughlin, Ratoath and Batterstown are all down for Winter 2016 and over the past week I've been all around the 3 locations and not seen anything happen. Haven't seen any action near the Tara exchange either in about 2 months. Nothing happening anywhere between Navan and Clonee either!. Ive seen a few Eir vans drive around but not seen any work anywhere since July. Perhaps they are all working in different parts of the country. Hopefully the open eir map will get updated soon with areas going live for November, if any areas are going live they are probably already wired up or in the process of being wired.
pcuser wrote: » My local exchange was upgraded to fibre last week, However I still have to wait for an engineer to call out. Its still only fiber to the cabinet so Im not too sure why he would need to call out. Does anyone else know why?
