Pangea wrote: » Problems aside Will the average joe using their android notice any difference with FFTH? I have 6mbps at the moment and WiFi works smoothly.
flying11 wrote: » Hi all, I notice that the ping/response time is much worse on my Android devices compared to my laptop. Would there be any reasons why the ping would be higher for android devices? It can take 3/4 seconds just to load up the results of a google search when using my tablet
Pangea wrote: » When I ordered I was told it would be 65 a month and 75 after promo, but email said it's 67 and 77, I'm not on direct debit. Do I have a case to complain?
damienirel wrote: » Jeez that looks like a manhole into a sewer? do they just drop that splice box into that p1ss? Wouldn't mind but we've had pretty dry weather for that last while too. (Edit)Actually just seen the hook drilled into the sidewall must be planning to hang splicebox offa that - wow - wouldn't want to rain too much. Can they be submerged in water?
Pangea wrote: » I was surprised myself didn't think water and cables would be a good mix! I'm not sure can they be submerged maybe someone has an answer to that.
ED E wrote: » Its the reason why FTTH is very much the medium of the future. A large portion of faults in the current network come from water ingress, not a concern with glass.
oscarBravo wrote: » Well... not as big a concern, certainly. But it's not good for fibre to be exposed to water (water molecules can diffuse into the silica material and increase the attenuation of the fibre). Most outdoor-rated cables have a water barrier specifically to reduce the risk of water ingress, but a splice enclosure is a particularly high-risk area since the cores are basically exposed within it. Hence the IP68 rating.
ED E wrote: » Always a treasure trove of info OB The impact is certainly less serious then. Have to wonder how much more rodent resistant the new ducts will be, buggers love to chew on the POTS network.
Mossy98012 wrote: » Do other providers such as sky and Vodafone use the fibre lines to get to your house and then just limit it to 100mb or will they still use the old copper lines from the fibre enabled cabinet to your house. The fibre lines run past my house but if they are going to use copper lines my house is too far away from the cabinet to get a decent speed.
Mossy98012 wrote: » My house is ftth enabled. I am wondering will sky/Vodafone use the ftth lines to deliver their 100mb fibre to my house or will they use copper lines instead
daraghwal wrote: » Sky and Vodafone do not use the FTTH network yet. This network is the only one that is not limited by distance to the exchange. Sky and Vodafone do use eirs copper efibre network, but you could be too far out to get that. If you are FTTH enabled, then you'll have to go with eir, pure telecom, digiweb or there's another few such as westnet that use FTTH in some regions.
Mossy98012 wrote: » is there any word on when they will start to use the ftth network
ED E wrote: » Sky? None. If history is anything to buy another 18mo - 2yrs. Vodafone? Unlikely they will. They're all in on the SIRO system (FTTH but from them + ESB).
godskitchen wrote: » What obligations are on Eir to share their fibre to the home infrastructure? I know they had to do it and rightly so with the PSTN network but not sure they are under any obligation to do so with the fibre. Surely they could make the case that they should be given access to sky's sat network to sell Eir TV services
godskitchen wrote: » What obligations are on Eir to share their fibre to the home infrastructure? I know they had to do it and rightly so with the PSTN network but not sure they are under any obligation to do so with the fibre.
digiman wrote: » I'd say both will be using both Eir and SIRO FTTH networks by end of this year, watch this space!! They can't afford not to as this stage with the Eir FTTH rollout starting to pick up pace and SIRO at over 70k homes passed. Sky especially will be losing lots of customers to people going FTTH, Vodafone probably stunting growth as they will be gaining customers on SIRO FTTH but also losing customers moving to Eir FTTH.
T-Bird wrote: » It's strange why Sky and Vodafone didn't provide the service. My phone can pickup about 10 residential wifi signals, a majority of them were sky. Now all bar one is eir. That's potential business lost for 18 months in most cases. They got their strategy wrong in this case I think.
