Eir rural FTTH thread

Kn installing yellow ducting along crosstown (kerry, headford exchange) road just now. Talked to one of them and he said another 6 months for any connection. I'd say he didn't really know either way and was just guessing. He said the installation was working out from the exchange.

Anyway, I think the spring/summer 2017 for headford exchange is looking good. Finally some positive developments.

As a lot of eir cables that come from the exchange are underground it must make it easier. No tree cutting or pole changing. Must be unusual for a rural exchange to have a lot of the phone lines running underground along the road?

Anyway, I might join the 21st century this year!! Great news.

ED E wrote: »

A 3rd party sales rep has just confused him. Ignore it.

I see what you mean, I think that's right - he was talking about FTTC.

I called into a neighbours house today and ran this speedtest on my phone, I'm supposed to be getting mine installed tomorrow. I had a quick glance at the set up, new faceplate on the wall, fibre modem and a wireless router, its messy enough, thankfully mine will be installed in the attic were none of the cabling can be seen

Mr Velo wrote: »

I'm on the Corrandulla Exchange in Galway. It's an old DSL exchange - however, it is fed by line of sight to Mervue...  I'm extremely suspicious to see that FTTH services will be live by Spring Summer 2018

My local exchange was upgraded last summer for eVDSL and connected to the core fibre network, open-eir's map hasn't been updated to reflect the network fibre connection. If your exchange hasn't already been hooked up it will be in time for the launch of hi-speed broadband, sometimes the map doesn't always reflect what's actually on the ground.

Finne1993 wrote: »

I called into a neighbours house today and ran this speedtest on my phone, I'm supposed to be getting mine installed tomorrow. I had a quick glance at the set up, new faceplate on the wall, fibre modem and a wireless router, its messy enough, thankfully mine will be installed in the attic were none of the cabling can be seen

Are you planning to have ONT & ODP in the attic and run an Ethernet cable to your modem location downstairs?

How will they get fibre cable to attic?

Sounds like a good idea as it does look messy.

I have Ethernet cable in attic to modem location downstairs and was thinking same as yourself

Thanks

I suspect the ONT will just have a RJ45 socket

jasper1 wrote: »

I suspect the ONT will just have a RJ45 socket

Yes, I believe that's correct, the ONT is fibre only. The existing NTU socket for POTS remains at it is.


Source: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=97842227#post97842227

Guiding Principles

Fibre to the Home (FTTH)

- The ONT (Optical Network Terminal) will be the Network demarcation point
- eircom will always be responsible for the installation of the ONT
- eircom technician will install the ONT as per the workmanship standard specification
- The location of the ONT may be influenced by the cable entry point and power availability. Power shall be supplied by the end-user
- A pre-terminated fibre patch cord usually of 1m length is used to connect the Optical Distribution Point (ODP) to the ONT
- FTTH data port extension may be installed beyond the ONT (eircom will, if requested at the time of Order, install a data port extension socket using a standard extension kit to a maximum of 30 meters)
- The eircom technician will test the line on completion of the installation

Source: NGA IPM

Peppa Cig wrote: »

Are you planning to have ONT & ODP in the attic and run an Ethernet cable to your modem location downstairs?

How will they get fibre cable to attic?

Sounds like a good idea as it does look messy.

I have Ethernet cable in attic to modem location downstairs and was thinking same as yourself

Thanks

In the neighbours set up the existing faceplate for the phoneline remained in the same place, the ODP was fitted beside it, the conduit the copper cable is in was wide enough for another few cables to come through so they had no issue fishing the fibre line down.

As regards my own set up, I have 2 fish wires already going from my Eircom box outside up to my attic space so there won't be a problem getting the fibre to there, I feed Ethernet points all around the house via my existing router so I'm happy with my current set up and naturally don't want to change it.

I never had a POTS phoneline and I'm not getting one now either but from what I can make out from a few of the installs I've seen around here is that it's a completely separate install, I've seen a few cases where existing POTS lines are going into one side of the house via a duct and fibre lines are run into the other side of the house overhead.

Fingers crossed there's no messing about with my install tomorrow, there's still a fierce wind blowing here so they may not be too keen to climb any poles!!

The Cush wrote: »

Thanks for that Jason, I got my adsl/fttc mixed up. I posted about Pallasgreen a few times previously having ADSL1 but not being on the FTTC rollout plan and having no core fibre connection e.g. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95782827, http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=98937313.

No worries The Cush, as long as Eir don't get them mixed up and not push FTTH there.... ;-)

niallb wrote: »

I saw a timeframe on Eir's site for the Tara exchange just now.
Never looked at their site before - always used the openeir fibrerollout.ie map.
It still says Spring/Summer 2017

Eir says that fiber will be available within 6 weeks.
Does anyone know how long it's been saying that?!

It has been saying 6 weeks for about a year and a half

Grumpypants wrote: »

It has been saying 6 weeks for about a year and a half

"Free beer tomorrow!"

Grumpypants wrote: »

Got a text and a follow up call from Imagine as they have just launched in my area (Kinvarra). I've 10 months left on my Eir contract and would need to break it and sign a new 18 month one with Imagine, which I would then break when FTTH does come in "spring/Summer 2017"

Seems too messy, just going to stick it out and keep the fingers crossed they get it live in the next 6 months.

I had the same call. Details: 20Gb monthly allowance, 18mth contract which is €100 to break. I'm just gonna hold out now until the summer, hopefully FTTH will be live by then.