Eir rural FTTH thread

MBSnr wrote: »

Is this for certain? Each house has a dedicated port, so there is no issue of getting in first? I'm stuck in an 18 month Vodafone contact... Don't fancy buying it out (if I don't need to) if FTTH magically becomes available for me in mid 2017

Officially its assigned by Eircode. Ive been told that if its not taken up then it could, theoretically, be reassigned.

mdfire wrote: »

Officially its assigned by Eircode. Ive been told that if its not taken up then it could, theoretically, be reassigned.

I would say that it wont and can/t due to the NBP...
Maybe if a new build were to happen in an area where fibre has been fully run and installed then yes, But I presume there is some extra ports in each splice unit to allow for this..

pegasus1 wrote: »

I would say that it wont and can/t due to the NBP...
Maybe if a new build were to happen in an area where fibre has been fully run and installed then yes, But I presume there is some extra ports in each splice unit to allow for this..

Not officially no.

I was told by the eir guys who were splicing the boxes that in all likelihood in my situation the planners were reading off plans that were out of date. The whole area is served except a small section of our road. Makes no sense.

mdfire wrote: »

The fibre stopped 250m short of me on our lane. We have the crazy situation of there being 2 fibre boxes each of which has four ports. The eir rep told me that only one of the 6 properties served by it wanted fibre broadband. So there is 7 spare ports just down the lane and i cant get it. Is there another country in the western world where this would be allowed to happen?

In almost every other country in the whole world your neighbours wouldn't have FTTH either tbh. The rural FTTH roll out is pretty unique.

I know it's not what you want to hear but be thankful that fibre is so close. It's only a matter of time before it comes to you.

By the way I hope that rep was wrong or at least that his figures are not representative of the wider scheme because 18% take up rates would mean it being unsustainable. Eir will be banking on very high adoption rates due to current limitations in xdsl services to these locations.

SteveD92 wrote: »

Our installation for FTTH was scheduled for today. Engineer was on site and once he went to connect it he realised the code on the box which was running the fibre from the road to the house was different to what he had been issued and couldn't complete the install.

Called Eir and they said it was an isolated issue and the guy on the phone hadn't heard of it happening before and had to leave it with him to sort out before getting another installation date. Said it would have to be manually fixed (whatever that means?)

Any idea as to what the code has to do with it?

The exact same thing happened to neighbours of mine on Monday and to different neighbours on Tuesday!
Even the engineers are shaking their heads!
They have been working at houses on my road (There are approx 40 houses on it) all week now, at times there were 6 vans on the road! I think there are only 10 houses out of that 40 that went for the FTTH and they only have 3 connected! And one of them was through NET1 who hadn't sent out a modem so that customer is still without it!

I checked with an engineer today and he says my install date has been put back until next Tuesday, I also spoke to a different engineer yesterday and he said the whole procedure (If you call it that) is very haphazard in that they don't know where they're going to be sent from one hour to the next and most sites they go to cannot be connected first time as the lines haven't been tested! They're obviously rushing to get people connected to get their numbers up but in doing so they're wasting an awful lot of time and money!

One thing I will say is that all the KN engineers I've spoken to were sound, I'm sure they get tortured with people asking the same questions over and over but they're always polite and are willing to answer any queries any of us have.

I will get it at some stage... hopefully!!!

Deleted User wrote: »

I suspect that if you offered to pay for the extra work involved in stringing up the fibre, they'd do it. After all it's a simple task of a few pole clips and a couple of hundred metres of fibre instead of 50 metres or so for a standard rural installation.

My house is located half way between two splice boxes and I expect they'll need about 100m of fibre to get from the splice to the NTU in the house. A duct and three poles to the splice.

I'd agree with this, my own house is up a private lane, approx 250 meters long, we were on the blue line, a few months ago the ducting guys were out, they were unable to get the ducting rodded through the existing duct that holds the copper cable, they told me as it was a private lane that they wouldn't be replacing any ducting at a cost to them but if I wanted to do it myself they would blow the fibre up through it.
I got a trench dug, laid the ducting, connected it to the access box at the bottom of the lane and into the access box outside my house.
A few weeks later another crew arrived to work on the road, I stopped with them and pointed out what I had done, they weren't aware of this work and then proceeded to blow the fibre cable through the duct and now I have fibre cable right outside my house ready to be connected, if I hadn't done any of this or hadn't pursued the different engineers who were working on my road I'd be like mdfire and waiting on the NBP.

pegasus1 wrote: »

Has the new motorway build been progressed to an extent that ducting is laid on a flyover or underpass?.. Perhaps when it is they will come out to do your section...

They have ducting laid under the motorway for provison of water on our old access road. They then laid new ducting and copper wire on the new access road to our houses even though few weeks later they were fitting fibre to the adjoining roads and completely ignored these houses. Would have made more sense to have laid a fibre line when they digging the new access road for ducting and laying new copper cable anyway but unfortunately not :-(

irishchris wrote: »

They have ducting laid under the motorway for provison of water on our old access road. They then laid new ducting and copper wire on the new access road to our houses even though few weeks later they were fitting fibre to the adjoining roads and completely ignored these houses. Would have made more sense to have laid a fibre line when they digging the new access road for ducting and laying new copper cable anyway but unfortunately not :-(

Irishchris...so your house has two roads, the motorway cut your old access so deemed closed as you had access to the other road built...
The Problem there is, that the road your new access connects too, your house wasn't listed on the plans due to you being fed off the road now on the other side of the motorway and since disregarded...you need to find out is there provision in a splice box for you from your new road connection...but who do you talk to?

irishchris wrote: »

They have ducting laid under the motorway for provison of water on our old access road. They then laid new ducting and copper wire on the new access road to our houses even though few weeks later they were fitting fibre to the adjoining roads and completely ignored these houses. Would have made more sense to have laid a fibre line when they digging the new access road for ducting and laying new copper cable anyway but unfortunately not :-(

Was it just a timing issue? That the construction of the road was still happening at some critical point in the fibre deployment? I don't know if it would help, but if I were you I'd be getting your neighbours together, find out who is interested in signing up, and let openeir know somehow, it would be worth their while to come back later to fulfill the original commitment. It's possibly totally different arms of Openeir doing the copper wire ducting as compared with the fibre. I'd be surprised if they didn't leave space for fibre as well.

Gonzo wrote: »

The map is updated, Dunshaughlin has a live date of 8th March!!!!!

here's hoping Gonzo

My local exchange has gone from early/mid 2017 to Spring/Summer 2017. Don't know whether that's an improvement or not but it looks like the date Eir webchat gave me of the end of march might be optimistic.

You could take summer as lasting up to the end of August.

Gonzo wrote: »

The map is updated, Dunshaughlin has a live date of 8th March!!!!!

We're moved from early/mid 2017 to Spring/Summer 2017. Not sure what that's supposed to mean. I guess Summer could mean August, which is a slip.

Interesting that the cabinet status in the next village went from "planned" to "live". No build stage .

plodder wrote: »

We're moved from early/mid 2017 to Spring/Summer 2017. Not sure what that's supposed to mean. I guess Summer could mean August, which is a slip.

Interesting that the cabinet status in the next village went from "planned" to "live". No build stage .

Had another look based on what you said about the cabinet plodder. I see the cabinet in our exchange is due to go live on 22nd February but as I'm about 4kms away it won't make any difference to me

My local exchange has now moved from early/mid 2017 to Autumn 2017 now ... so far it has slipped from Winter 2016 to Autumn 2017 ..
Oh Well ...

Mine went from Winter 2017/Spring 2018 to Winter 2018