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Eir rural FTTH thread

rob808

I made this thread for people on eir rural blue line FTTH please keep here and don't post in Eircom FTTH 66 towns 1 Gb thread about rural FTTH rollout.

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Gonzo

banjopeter wrote: »

Cable team in Crushoa, Kinvara today, putting up actual cable on the poles. The cable is surprisingly thin. What is the next stage? Should I get excited?

it can be at least a 3 month wait after the cable and splice boxes go up, unless your road is the very last route to be worked on in the exchange. Most people in our area have been sitting and waiting since mid November-early December.

long_b

banjopeter wrote: »

Cable team in Crushoa, Kinvara today, putting up actual cable on the poles. The cable is surprisingly thin. What is the next stage? Should I get excited?

If by excited for the long term in that you'll be getting fibre then yes but in the really short term not so much - could still take months. Read back a page or so on this thread for our experiences

Your images aren't showing by the way

banjopeter

Cable team in Crushoa, Kinvara today, putting up actual cable on the poles. The cable is surprisingly thin. What is the next stage? Should I get excited?

Gonzo

kerryman wrote: »

I just got an email saying someone will be in touch in the next few days but after the online chat I got a confirmation email

so ordering online doesn't necessarily always work first time? If I don't get a confirmation email then chat to the Eir 'experts' online?

line checker for me still says no and no sign of any reps in area.

Bored Accountant

Bunch of tree cutting done along the blue line on the Clonlara road out of Sixmilebridge. Hopefully a start with view to delivering by next end of 2017.

kerryman

Gonzo wrote: »

did you originally get confirmation email when you first placed the order, i'm just wondering how did the original order not go through their system.

I just got an email saying someone will be in touch in the next few days but after the online chat I got a confirmation email

godskitchen

PaulieBeef wrote: »

I got talking to a couple of contractors from MCP (McCann?) doing some work on the Castlebar Road outside Westport yesterday. They said they were doing some work for Eir laying down ducting for Fibre. They didn't have any idea when the fibre would be laid. However I noticed some markings on poles near my house - the one my house is connected to has an "E" and "PP" sprayed in blue paint. There's some sort of cable tied up to the pole at the end of the road and the grass and muck etc. around the Eir manhole had been cleared away.

Is it time for me to get cautiously optimistic at this stage?!

My crappy 4mb connection is even worse than usual these days and Imagine are offering up to 70mb on LTE. Decisions!

Westport has been moved forward to autumn 17 for ftth so I'd say your looking good

pegasus1

PaulieBeef wrote: »

Is it time for me to get cautiously optimistic at this stage?!

My crappy 4mb connection is even worse than usual these days and Imagine are offering up to 70mb on LTE. Decisions!

you have got activity happening at your pole for fibre work and you are thinking about going to imagine...crazy thinking that is..hang in there its probably only around the corner, be it a month to 6 months..We have 4mb connection too and fibre activity could be a year away..and not going with imagine cause I know from previous companies we can't get a wireless signal due to trees, but even if we could, it would be a sit and wait for the fibre

PaulieBeef

I got talking to a couple of contractors from MCP (McCann?) doing some work on the Castlebar Road outside Westport yesterday. They said they were doing some work for Eir laying down ducting for Fibre. They didn't have any idea when the fibre would be laid. However I noticed some markings on poles near my house - the one my house is connected to has an "E" and "PP" sprayed in blue paint. There's some sort of cable tied up to the pole at the end of the road and the grass and muck etc. around the Eir manhole had been cleared away.

Is it time for me to get cautiously optimistic at this stage?!

My crappy 4mb connection is even worse than usual these days and Imagine are offering up to 70mb on LTE. Decisions!

Gonzo

kerryman wrote: »

I knew it was to good to be true i went on to Eir website to chat online, no record of my order so i had to place it again. To be fair to them I got an extra €10 for the first 3 months so i am paying €55 for the first 3 months and €75 thereafter I know its more expensive than Vodafone but they can only off me 15MB

did you originally get confirmation email when you first placed the order, i'm just wondering how did the original order not go through their system.

kerryman

I knew it was to good to be true i went on to Eir website to chat online, no record of my order so i had to place it again. To be fair to them I got an extra €10 for the first 3 months so i am paying €55 for the first 3 months and €75 thereafter I know its more expensive than Vodafone but they can only off me 15MB

rob808

kerryman wrote: »

I went online last night to check my phone number it said I qualify for the upgrade to 150 MB so i proceeded with the order online appointment set for Friday. Can it be that easy. I am outside Tralee

when your with Eir it a free upgrade to 150mb which is nice don't know if it easy some people had problem guess you were lucky enjoy your new fibre connection when it install.

kerryman

I went online last night to check my phone number it said I qualify for the upgrade to 150 MB so i proceeded with the order online appointment set for Friday. Can it be that easy. I am outside Tralee

Grumpypants

rkdub wrote: »

According to facebook last night.. Councillor Joe Byrne, Kinvara is 5 weeks away
(although last year, he shared a date of May 16..).
"EIR have informed me this evening that residents within 1.5km radius of Kinvara can order Fibre in 5 weeks time ( fibre to exchange almost complete)
At the same time very unhappy that certain areas in the locality are not being connected with fibre to the home by EIR at present. Makes no sense no matter whatever the excuse they give."

He mentioned in a follow up reply that "FFTH will be available for ordering in June".

The Cush

fergoc wrote: »

So regarding the actual install, do they terminate the fibre at the service box at the side of the house or do they run it right into an NTU in your house? The reason I am asking is that there is a long CAT 5e cable run between my service box and the NTU and so I am wondering if I need to ensure that I provide an easy way for them to pull the fibre into the house along the same route. Does anyone have pictures or an install that they could share

Install pics here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=102614422#post102614422

Fibre terminated at the ODP.

fergoc

So regarding the actual install, do they terminate the fibre at the service box at the side of the house or do they run it right into an NTU in your house? The reason I am asking is that there is a long CAT 5e cable run between my service box and the NTU and so I am wondering if I need to ensure that I provide an easy way for them to pull the fibre into the house along the same route. Does anyone have pictures or an install that they could share

Gonzo

in Dunshaughlin some of the lines were wired up and splice box's completed early to mid November, my road was completed 2nd week of December, area goes live on March 8th with first connections a few weeks after that.

[Deleted User]

In South Roscommon, the fibres were originally installed in early October and reinstalled in January, quickly followed by the installation of the splicing boxes and going live 22 February with home connections expected to start 8 March.

ctwomey

Tweaky wrote: »

Was over in Barryscourt this morning and there were 3 vans over there working on installing the splitter boxes. Got talking to the engineers and they were telling me that they were ahead of the schedule they have been given but no idea of go live dates. They have really made significant progress over the past couple of weeks.
What timeline are people seeing between the installation of the splitter boxes and first connections ?

In Ballybrittas, they cleaned the route through the trees during the Summer. Then in December they installed the Cable and Splitter Boxes on the Poles. Last Thursday Eir Reps came around and said we can order the FTTH from tomorrow (20th Feb). So to answer your question about 2 months.

Tweaky

Tonio wrote: »

Lots of fibre hanging from poles in Barryscourt and Ballintubber on the back road from Carrigtwohill towards Midleton. Lots of eir and contractor vans in the area over the last few weeks. Must be close to going live I'd say. Haven't seen any fibre hanging near to Midleton yet.

Was over in Barryscourt this morning and there were 3 vans over there working on installing the splitter boxes. Got talking to the engineers and they were telling me that they were ahead of the schedule they have been given but no idea of go live dates. They have really made significant progress over the past couple of weeks.
What timeline are people seeing between the installation of the splitter boxes and first connections ?

ED E

daraghwal wrote: »

Would it not cost way less if they just did this now as they are installing everything in the house anyway?

Not yet.

If you get FTTH installed and move out 6 months later the next occupant can request a POTS line. Theyd then have to go and refit it if they took it out.

Once COMREG are done with the regulations they can provide AFL Voice over FTTH and pull all the copper (and sell it), but not yet.

The Cush

daraghwal wrote: »

Would it not cost way less if they just did this now as they are installing everything in the house anyway?

Openeir have a USO to provide and maintain the copper network, until that changes the network remains. Providers like Vodafone, eir, Sky could of course offer VOIP via their broadband packages and bypass the copper network as Vodafone are doing in some cases now.

daraghwal

The Cush wrote: »

They are moving in the direction of decommissioning copper - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=101923262

Would it not cost way less if they just did this now as they are installing everything in the house anyway?

The Cush

ctwomey wrote: »

Do Eir replace the existing POTS for your landline when you order Rural FTTH or does it all go through the fibre?

They are moving in the direction of decommissioning copper - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=101923262

ED E

ctwomey wrote: »

Do Eir replace the existing POTS for your landline when you order Rural FTTH or does it all go through the fibre?

Theres a side by side product where you keep the copper for phones and an all IP product where your phone is VOIP(connects to the modem).

ctwomey

Do Eir replace the existing POTS for your landline when you order Rural FTTH or does it all go through the fibre?

irishkopite 2011

long_b wrote: »

Thanks all.
So probably a couple of splitters needed for this scenarios so?

As there are 15 homes in your image I would say there will be four splitters used. One secondary splitter will serve four homes.

long_b

Thanks all.
So probably a couple of splitters needed for this scenarios so?

[Deleted User]

ED E wrote: »

Old copper DPs served a max of 8 homes usually so in dense urban areas at a 16:1 split you'd have one POS every ~2nd pole.

When that goes rurally you'll probably find its more like one every 10 or twelve poles.

Yes, that's what it appears to be around here, but then again the copper cables have frequent joins, so it's simply a case of the most convenient place to split the pair off to the house that's used. Our POTS connection is about 5 poles away, further up the line than our FTTH connection will be.

The Cush

ED E wrote: »

When that goes rurally you'll probably find its more like one every 10 or twelve poles.

Based on what's marked around here, in one location there are 2 splitter points separated by approx. 50m and 1 pole. The 2 points will serve, by the looks of it 3-4 and 6-7 houses respectively. But mostly a splitter is likely to serve groups of 2-5 houses approx. here.