JohnC. wrote: » Any chance of the sale of eir throwing a spanner in the works? I suppose they're probably too far into the plan now.
cabledude wrote: » Built a house 9 years ago. Got the phone line in hoping that I could get broadband. When I contacted Eircom they told me that the local exchange was not upgraded yet. Its the Adamstown, Wexford exchange. ANyone know of any maps or places I can look to see if it has been updated yet?
murphaph wrote: » http://www.openeir.ie/Our_Network/ (nga Map). Look promising for FTTH there in the next year or 2.
cabledude wrote: » 2017-2020. Or 3 or 4! Will be worth waiting on however. I'm on Vodafone 4g at the minute. Costing me €60 per month for 150Gb limit. Speeds are not great and it gets slow enough in the evening time.
murphaph wrote: » Eir says it'll have all those blue lines done by 2018. Make of that what you will. It's definitely better being "on a blue line" than not!
Johnboy1951 wrote: » Was that not 'open eir' which would imply the fibre will be in place in that time period? I reckon that is not unmanageable.
Shyboy wrote: » So, now that we are into November, I wonder will there be any updates for us soon regarding the next batch of FTTH exchanges/areas to go live?
Gonzo wrote: » I doubt there will be any more live exchanges between now and end of January, Raheen in County Offaly might go live since it was supposed to be live on October 12th but missed it's date. In Dunshaughlin there was some work on the Dunshaughlin-Ratoath road, it was ducting work similar to what went on at my road last April. Marcel posted that there was some fiber on poles along the Batterstown-Trim road, but I haven't seen fiber on poles anywhere else in the Dunshaughlin exchange area. Unless there is a sudden update on the Open Eir map looks like we'll all be waiting into 2017 to enjoy our new connections.
damienirel wrote: » So you reckon 3 months and Eir are just going to sit it out? Certainly looks that way!
Gonzo wrote: » they are not sitting it out, they are still doing preparation stages in many areas and things are obviously going way slower than expected. They are also hiring extra teams to get the project moving quicker. Hopefully they will hit the ground running after New Year's Day with an increased number of teams and much more widespread progress. When I say that it will be 2017 before the majority of us start using the service, im referring to the amount of time that passes between an area being wired up and customers using the connection for first time, there is about a 4 week wait after an area is wired up before anything can be ordered and then maybe a week or 2 weeks for the guys to call over and connect you up, so your looking at a minimum 5 to 6 weeks after your line is wired up. It's now start of November and nothing is gonna happen in the second half of December. Im sure some places will get wired up between now and Christmas but they wont be live till the waiting period is over.
Shyboy wrote: » Is there definitely a 4 week wait before the product can be ordered? :eek:
Johnboy1951 wrote: » They are required to give other providers 4 weeks notice to allow them to compete. They cannot do installs during that period.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » The map has been updated. Some more areas with dates added: All the 16th of November: Ballyboden (Dublin) Ballyclough (Cork) Belcarra (Mayo) Bray (Wicklow) (Not in Rural Rollout) Courtown Harbour (Wexford) Dungloe (Donegal) Rahan in Offaly is partially live with 150 premises passed. I didn't have time to check the map for slipped dates. I'll do that later.
niallb wrote: » I see Belcarra is in that list there. Surely that was the pilot rural fibre scheme with 70 addresses set up in May 2015. Perhaps that's just gone from pilot to live now, but it might not be fresh fibre.Pilot scheme brings fast broadband delights to Belcarra -Irish Examiner 28th May 2015
Gonzo wrote: » in Meath the following have slipped: Batterstown: Spring 2017 OldCastle: 2017/2018 Slane: 2017/2018 Kilcock: 2017/2018 Edit: some fo the 2017/2018 dates are new dates but 2017/2018 is so vague they could be waiting up to 2 years.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Perhaps they have extended the footprint slightly. As an aside, are you in the Tara area? It got a live date for FTTC of the 23rd of November.
niallb wrote: » Doesn't matter - most of us here are so far from the exchange, nothing except FTTH will work. We've never had DSL/ADSL/VDSL here. nowt! I'm the last house on the blue line, and I'm more than 12km by cable from that cabinet :-(
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Were they all not originally 2017 - 2020? They just changed the 2020 to 2018 as per their recent announcement.
long_b wrote: » The spreadsheet has history if you're curious and you're in updating it
