Eir rural FTTH thread

Shyboy · 24-01-2017 08:39PM

ccazza wrote: »

We had our 3rd visit from KN networks today. They finally sent the 2 man team and they brought the cable to the house but can't install the broadband yet as Eir still haven't given them the correct DP point. It's just ridiculous at this stage.

My installation is not until next week but I have heard horror stories from most of the neighbours who have or are trying to have it installed at the moment. Most seem to be KN not turning up for appointments or getting there and Eir giving them wrong information, etc. KN blaming Eir, then Eir blaming KN...seems to be such bad communication between them all...:eek:

I am not getting my hopes too high for next week until I literally have it all installed ready to go...

Ron603 · 24-01-2017 09:46PM

There's a lot of work going on in Killarney, Co. Kerry. Ducting has been installed next to some poles, it's either white or orange in colour. Some poles have a black cable attached to the side with some tape, it reads 'fibre optic cable'. I saw some men working on manholes the other day as well. Some poles have a metal plate with a red D attached to them, and new brackets(not sure if correct term) have been added to the top of the poles, presumably to hold the fibre cable. This is in the Aghadoe region to be exact.

Gonzo · 24-01-2017 09:46PM

Shyboy wrote: »

My installation is not until next week but I have heard horror stories from most of the neighbours who have or are trying to have it installed at the moment. Most seem to be KN not turning up for appointments or getting there and Eir giving them wrong information, etc. KN blaming Eir, then Eir blaming KN...seems to be such bad communication between them all...:eek:

I am not getting my hopes too high for next week until I literally have it all installed ready to go...

Hopefully you'll get it installed easy and on the date specified. I find it hard to believe I'm still waiting almost 11 months since work started here and exchange still waiting to go live! It will be March at the earliest before I even have an installed connection!

rob808 · 24-01-2017 10:12PM

Gonzo wrote: »

Hopefully you'll get it installed easy and on the date specified. I find it hard to believe I'm still waiting almost 11 months since work started here and exchange still waiting to go live! It will be March at the earliest before I even have an installed connection!

They haven't even start doing Fibre in my area and it late January wouldn't believe they finish the Rollout by end of 2018 seem PR bull**** to me like 100,000 house by March.

I say March seem about right Gonzo doh hopefully you get in February.

funnyname · 24-01-2017 10:43PM

fergus1001 wrote: »

Does anyone know if eir have added any new blue lines to the roll out or is it as was ?

Interesting question as I was about to ask that too. In a older version of the fibre rollout when/where site, if you went to the county specific page it gave a list of the town's and villages down to get ftth. Mine was listed but there were no blue lines stretching out from the village.

Should I continue to be hopeful that some day I'll see these things of beauty stare back at me or do I have to wait for the nbp?

24-01-2017 10:54PM

Gonzo wrote: »

Hopefully you'll get it installed easy and on the date specified. I find it hard to believe I'm still waiting almost 11 months since work started here and exchange still waiting to go live! It will be March at the earliest before I even have an installed connection!

There is still a team around our area putting up splice boxes, each day when driving home a few more appear, there can't be many more to do.
Work started here sometime during the summer with new ducts placed for the underground sections, but I never took much notice as I assumed that they were for additional copper. So if the March completion date as told to me by one of the KN workers is correct it would be approximately 9 months from start to finish.

I would expect the times to get quicker the longer the project progresses, simply because the crews are getting experienced and there are more of them.

Hopefully there'll be far fewer cockups like over-tensioning the overhead lines like they did here and having to replace the entire fibre run.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 24-01-2017 10:56PM

funnyname wrote: »

Interesting question as I was about to ask that too. In a older version of the fibre rollout when/where site, if you went to the county specific page it gave a list of the town's and villages down to get ftth. Mine was listed but there were no blue lines stretching out from the village.

Should I continue to be hopeful that some day I'll see these things of beauty stare back at me or do I have to wait for the nbp?

The map superceded that page. If you are not on a blue line you will have to wait for the NBP. I'm not actually convinced that all blue lines will even be done by the start of the national broadband plan.

Peppa Cig · 25-01-2017 09:43AM

Hi, these cables ready for connection left at most poles in area following cable roll out from town,

This one outside house.

What are they for?

Does this confirm FTTC / FTTH ?

rob808 · 25-01-2017 09:51AM

Peppa Cig wrote: »

Hi, these cables ready for connection left at most poles in area following cable roll out from town,

This one outside house.

What are they for?

Does this confirm FTTC / FTTH ?

That FTTH and fibre on the poles

Peppa Cig · 25-01-2017 10:04AM

rob808 wrote: »

That FTTH and fibre on the poles

Cheers Rob. That's what I was thinking but doubted my belief. Just needed to hear it from someone more informed.

Like so many we are waiting so long for decent internet access. Trying to run a business from home on 2mb with six people in house is pre-historic.

I know we might be waiting another 6/12 months to go live but at least process has started.

Hope those waiting get progress in their areas soon too!!

Peppa Cig · 25-01-2017 11:17AM

Peppa Cig wrote: »

Cheers Rob. That's what I was thinking but doubted my belief. Just needed to hear it from someone more informed.

Like so many we are waiting so long for decent internet access. Trying to run a business from home on 2mb with six people in house is pre-historic.

I know we might be waiting another 6/12 months to go live but at least process has started.

Hope those waiting get progress in their areas soon too!!

I mentioned a further anticipated 6/12 month wait for exchange works etc but looking at map and tracing blue line back to exchange it appears the exchange is already live and providing FTTH to 400 homes.

So should be hooked up sooner rather than later now that fibre cable at pole outside house?

ratracer · 25-01-2017 11:26AM

Peppa Cig wrote: »

I mentioned a further anticipated 6/12 month wait for exchange works etc but looking at map and tracing blue line back to exchange it appears the exchange is already live and providing FTTH to 400 homes.

So should be hooked up sooner rather than later now that fibre cable at pole outside house?

If your exchange is live, I'd be calling eir, or your preferred provider in the are to see if you can get connected

ninja 12 · 25-01-2017 11:41AM

Eir / KN have been busy on and off for the last while replacing poles connected to the Killanne exchange in Wexford .

Last week there was a lad in a small KN van going up various poles looking at boxes/connections .

No sign of fibre yet .

Last year they removed excess / unused cable going to the exchange ( I assume to make room for fibre )

Estimated date for first Live FTTH Fibre Services with speeds up to 1000Mb/s is 2017/18

Knasher · 25-01-2017 11:49AM

Peppa Cig wrote: »

I mentioned a further anticipated 6/12 month wait for exchange works etc but looking at map and tracing blue line back to exchange it appears the exchange is already live and providing FTTH to 400 homes.

So should be hooked up sooner rather than later now that fibre cable at pole outside house?

If they haven't been in to try and sell you ftth yet, then I'd bank on at least a 6 month wait. Running the cables on the poles is probably the easy part, and it would let them get to their 10000 passed target. Going into each house to install the line probably takes more time.

Out of interest, I assume your town made it onto the list of the first 10000 http://fibrerollout.ie/first-rural-ftth-locations-announced/

Peppa Cig · 25-01-2017 12:43PM

Knasher wrote: »

If they haven't been in to try and sell you ftth yet, then I'd bank on at least a 6 month wait. Running the cables on the poles is probably the easy part, and it would let them get to their 10000 passed target. Going into each house to install the line probably takes more time.

Out of interest, I assume your town made it onto the list of the first 10000 http://fibrerollout.ie/first-rural-ftth-locations-announced/

Yes we are on list

redfacedbear · 25-01-2017 01:43PM

Some Diffusion lads out pulling fibre through ducting in Bridgetown village, Wexford this morning! Whooop

Tomhaggard exchange, down for early/mid 2017 on the map.

Johnboy1951 · 25-01-2017 02:07PM

redfacedbear wrote: »

Some Diffusion lads out pulling fibre through ducting in Bridgetown village, Wexford this morning! Whooop

Tomhaggard exchange, down for early/mid 2017 on the map.

Tomhaggard is listed as one of the exchanges for the first 100,000.

Will they manage to pull the fibre through by end of March is the real question

knipex · 25-01-2017 04:38PM

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Tomhaggard is listed as one of the exchanges for the first 100,000.

Will they manage to pull the fibre through by end of March is the real question

March isn't going to happen. I am on the 100,000 and my date has been put back to early mid 2017......

FTC was completed months back but FTTH hasn't even started..

Johnboy1951 · 25-01-2017 05:06PM

redfacedbear wrote: »

Some Diffusion lads out pulling fibre through ducting in Bridgetown village, Wexford this morning! Whooop

Tomhaggard exchange, down for early/mid 2017 on the map.

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Tomhaggard is listed as one of the exchanges for the first 100,000.

Will they manage to pull the fibre through by end of March is the real question

knipex wrote: »

March isn't going to happen. I am on the 100,000 and my date has been put back to early mid 2017......

FTC was completed months back but FTTH hasn't even started..

As the fibre is presently being pulled through, on what do you base your assertion?
We all know that estimates on the map are unreliable.

superloopy · 25-01-2017 05:13PM

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

As the fibre is presently being pulled through, on what do you base your assertion?
We all know that estimates on the map are unreliable.

I'm excited for April 1st.

Johnboy1951 · 25-01-2017 05:13PM

superloopy wrote: »

I'm excited for April 1st.

hehehehehehehe

knipex · 25-01-2017 05:26PM

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

As the fibre is presently being pulled through, on what do you base your assertion?
We all know that estimates on the map are unreliable.

Perhaps in your location but not a single sign of fiber or even a van in mine.

Johnboy1951 · 25-01-2017 05:32PM

knipex wrote: »

Perhaps in your location but not a single sign of fiber or even a van in mine.

Nor in mine ...... but the quoted post referred to the Tomhaggard exchange area where it is reported that the fibre is being pulled through - as I quoted.

Tonio · 25-01-2017 07:09PM

KN busy replacing poles near Barryscourt Carrigtwohill today. Strange how they schedule this work. They completed some pole replacement and hedge cutting just a few hundred metres down the road nearly a year ago!

Gonzo · 25-01-2017 07:27PM

Tonio wrote: »

KN busy replacing poles near Barryscourt Carrigtwohill today. Strange how they schedule this work. They completed some pole replacement and hedge cutting just a few hundred metres down the road nearly a year ago!

similar enough to how it all started in our area. Preparation started in our area on 1st April 2016 with a few short visits spread throughout the first 8 months, the rollout here didn't kick off properly throughout the exchange area till mid November.

Area still hasn't gone live and no date issued yet. Today the lads were back near me, they seemed to be re-wiring one of the splice box's that was installed back in December.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 26-01-2017 04:38AM

Seeing as Openeir won't do it, I've decided to make a map of the first 100K exchange areas listed here. As exchanges are given live dates I'll update them or add them if they've not already been included. I hope the colour scheme is self explanatory. If anybody spots errors just post and I'll try to fix them.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xk6un1ZdpZ8577ZzunX-RmL0cCM&usp=sharing

long_b · 26-01-2017 04:51AM

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Seeing as Openeir won't do it, I've decided to make a map of the first 100K exchange areas listed here. As exchanges are given live dates I'll update them or add them if they've not already been included. I hope the colour scheme is self explanatory. If anybody spots errors just post and I'll try to fix them.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xk6un1ZdpZ8577ZzunX-RmL0cCM&usp=sharing

Great work there Allison Puny Appetite!!

26-01-2017 08:49AM

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Seeing as Openeir won't do it, I've decided to make a map of the first 100K exchange areas listed here. As exchanges are given live dates I'll update them or add them if they've not already been included. I hope the colour scheme is self explanatory. If anybody spots errors just post and I'll try to fix them.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xk6un1ZdpZ8577ZzunX-RmL0cCM&usp=sharing

I assume that the "spanner" icon is for a area that is under construction, if so then Cornafulla south Roscommon should be marked as spanner.

John1993W · 26-01-2017 10:08AM

Yes. There are have been KN and Diffusion vans all other the Drum area which is being fed by the Cornafulla exchange.

We must be getting close?

Johnboy1951 · 26-01-2017 10:30AM

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Seeing as Openeir won't do it, I've decided to make a map of the first 100K exchange areas listed here. As exchanges are given live dates I'll update them or add them if they've not already been included. I hope the colour scheme is self explanatory. If anybody spots errors just post and I'll try to fix them.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xk6un1ZdpZ8577ZzunX-RmL0cCM&usp=sharing

Great job! Thank you.

Would it be possible to add a note to the info based on reports here?

I have in mind - as an example - adding a note that 'fibre is being placed' where posters report this in specific exchanges.
This might give an indication of which exchange areas are being worked on out of those that are planned.

On the other hand it might be a bit haphazard.

Thanks again for a great informative map.

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