Gonzo wrote: » KNN are back at the junction at the bottom of my road feeding fiber through the ducts towards the work points on the poles on the roads behind me. I was on a walk and got talking to a very friendly KNN engineer and asked when my road is getting done. He said everyone's been stopping and asking! and he happily informed me that my road is due to be cabled/wired this Saturday morning and that every house on the road will be covered, similar to the blue line! He said there is a big push to finish Dunshaughlin in time for Christmas and that the area may go live either just before Christmas or sometime in January:) My excitement is at an all time high! He remarked that 2017 is going to be an incredibly busy year for them. I also saw KNN on the Ratoath road starting the installation of the splice box's, the wiring seems complete on that road.
Gadgetman496 wrote: » Delighted for you Gonzo
Dr. Nick wrote: » Good stuff....he didn't mention Tara did he?!
niallb wrote: » Tara exchange is down as live since 23rd November, so I'm letting sleeping dogs lie and hoping it's the 30 day notice period running down. I'm still seeing a lot of activity down this end, but not as near to my own house as I'd like yet!
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Live for FTTC. Or exchange in this case.
Gonzo wrote: » The Tara FTTC exchange is a strange one. The cabinet is located at Ross Cross at the Post Office. There is nothing else around it except a few houses and a petrol station. Even the small village of Skyrne is too far from the cabinet to benefit from it. Most of the roads in the area are blue lined so I'm wondering how many people are gonna get FTTC fiber from this, makes more sense for them all to get FTTH.
scottyboi_2016 wrote: » An eir rep just called to my house taking orders for ftth. He said that there were only 15 slots for it and if they get filled up they're gone and you won't be able to get it. He also said that the black splice box about 20m down the road would only do one person. Is this nonsense, or was what he was saying correct? Btw, it's going live on December 28th for me
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Yeah I know the area. I'm just going by the map and the text description on it. It did seem that the area would not get FTTC but a few updates back this changed to a live date of the 23rd of November.
murphaph wrote: » Only in Ireland will we end up where someone living in the middle of nowhere will be complaining that they can only get 100Mbps FTTC while his neighbour living in more middle of nowhere delights in his gigabit speed FTTH. Lolz.
damienirel wrote: » Nah, this is what's happening at the moment...http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cork-photographer-focuses-ire-on-eir-over-broadband-services-426433.html
ED E wrote: » Total non story. Examiner isnt good for toilet paper. One small business customer on the wrong line profile/port. Big whoop. That exchange probably services 5-10k lines.
damienirel wrote: » Not soft enough I'd say? I'd hope your right in that eir are gonna follow through on all these promises - I'll believe it when I get my FTTH connection - but until then I'll have my reservations thanks.
cabledude wrote: » Some in work was telling me that ESB/Vodafone have a joint venture going at the minute where they are bringing fibre speed broadband in on power cables. Is this happening. I remember it being discussed a few years back. Is it going ahead. This chap reckons they are rolling it out in Wexford town at the minure.
damienirel wrote: » Nah, this is what's happening at the moment...http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cork-photographer-focuses-ire-on-eir-over-broadband-services-426433.html I'd stick with ze germans for another while Murphaph!
murphaph wrote: » Here's my story: Moved out of central Berlin (max 50/10 VDSL, no vectoring) available to commuter town of 12k people in Brandenburg (max 14/2 ADSL2+ Annex J). VDSL2 (with vectoring) became available to order last month. I ordered it and expected around 80/30 as we're 650m from the MSAN. I got home after we'd been "upgraded" to 19/1.5 with my FritzBox (7362SL, so a "good" vectoring friendly FB) clearly running in failsafe mode (max 2.2Mhz, G.vector OFF). Called them up after trying several restarts didn't help. They confirmed a fault and said they couldn't fix it remotely and a technician needs to come out to the MSAN and possibly our house.Ze Germans eh?! We can forget about FTTH here. Telekom is clearly going down the "sweat the absolute bo*****s out of the copper until the bitter end" route. Short term thinking. Eir are thinking much longer term. That is so obvious to me.
Gonzo wrote: » that sounds like Eircom from the late 90s, early 2000's. Is there not rival companies rolling out fiber as well? Im surprised things are that slow in Germany of all places, usually they are ahead of the game in everything they do with infrastructure, public services, networks etc.
Johnboy1951 wrote: » eir would be doing the same were it not for the NBP, except that they would be years behind still. SIRO would not exist except for the NPB and there would be no incentive for eir to do things right and do them now.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Germany only recently got on the ranking list from the FTTH Council Europe meaning that they have at least 1% household penetration. Ireland hasn't made the list. Yet!http://wireandcablenews.crugroup.com/wireandcablenews/news/free/2016/02/4596272/
damienirel wrote: » Ah yeah but we're way ahead eh? :rolleyes:
