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Eir rural FTTH thread
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For anyone who is seeing work going on around them but have been left in limbo-land not knowing what it going on, here are some observations I have made in my area (this may not be the same for everyone so don't read too much into it):
-They tend to replace the older/rotten poles. This is likely due to the fact that the fibre cables appear to be under higher tension therefore some poles need replacing to resist the bending (unfortunately in my area, some of the poles that should have been replaced weren't and seem to already struggling from the tension of the line
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-It seems that if you are getting fibre to the home (ftth) you need to be near a splice box, which are small black boxes (~400x250mm). These are mounted to the telephone poles.
-I noticed that all the poles that have a splice box on them in my area have the letter 'L' sprayed in white on the bottom (the letter likely varies depending on area, as neighbouring villages appear to have a 'J'. The last pole that they attach a splice box to on the line is marked with 'END' or 'E'. (I noticed this as I was unfortunate enough to be 200m downwind of one of these poles
-Luckily for me though, I am on a yellow line on the Open Eir rollout map, and in the last few days, 'L's have appeared on every 3rd or 4th pole down my road. So the splice boxes should arrive soon (I hope!)
Some other observations:
-It seems people who live close to the cabinets don't have splice boxes installed (or are low priority). I can only assume they are not getting FTTH as they live so close to the cabinet anyway, so FTTH probably wouldn't make much of a difference
-From what I can see (and this is just observation with a little speculation) Eir seem to have influence on where Open Eir/ KN install the splice boxes. The splice boxes tend to be prioritised in places where there are not a lot of Eir customers (although the Eir sales will tell you that they are prioritising areas that have no/very poor internet connections (I call BS on this).
These are only observations for people who don't know what is going on, so correct/supplement if you have a different experience...0 -
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They have a few poles to replace and straighten up down my road. They are due put up Fibre sometime over the weekend or the early days of next. With regards to my post about Ballyneety Co. Limerick they are laying Fibre on the road leading west to Crecora as I post. They started this job yesterday afternoon. They were working in a manhole at a FTTC cabinet at the side of the village where the lines come in from the exchange building which is about 2km to the east in the townland of Inch St. Lawernce.For anyone who is seeing work going on around them but have been left in limbo-land not knowing what it going on, here are some observations I have made in my area (this may not be the same for everyone so don't read too much into it):
-They tend to replace the older/rotten poles. This is likely due to the fact that the fibre cables appear to be under higher tension therefore some poles need replacing to resist the bending (unfortunately in my area, some of the poles that should have been replaced weren't and seem to already struggling from the tension of the line)
-It seems that if you are getting fibre to the home (ftth) you need to be near a splice box, which are small black boxes (~400x250mm). These are mounted to the telephone poles.
-I noticed that all the poles that have a splice box on them in my area have the letter 'L' sprayed in white on the bottom (the letter likely varies depending on area, as neighbouring villages appear to have a 'J'. The last pole that they attach a splice box to on the line is marked with 'END' or 'E'. (I noticed this as I was unfortunate enough to be 200m downwind of one of these poles
-Luckily for me though, I am on a yellow line on the Open Eir rollout map, and in the last few days, 'L's have appeared on every 3rd or 4th pole down my road. So the splice boxes should arrive soon (I hope!)
Some other observations:
-It seems people who live close to the cabinets don't have splice boxes installed (or are low priority). I can only assume they are not getting FTTH as they live so close to the cabinet anyway, so FTTH probably wouldn't make much of a difference
-From what I can see (and this is just observation with a little speculation) Eir seem to have influence on where Open Eir/ KN install the splice boxes. The splice boxes tend to be prioritised in places where there are not a lot of Eir customers (although the Eir sales will tell you that they are prioritising areas that have no/very poor internet connections (I call BS on this).
These are only observations for people who don't know what is going on, so correct/supplement if you have a different experience...0 -
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