Eir rural FTTH thread

vintagevrs · 10-06-2017 10:38AM

I noticed the pole at our house has been marked with spray paint. We are the very last house on the FTTH blue line and the spray paint I think said "EL" which I'm guessing is end of line or something. Hopefully works will be starting soon enough.

yabadabado · 10-06-2017 12:50PM

Ok folks Im finally able to order the FTTH and I'm wondering what is the best deal via phone or online ?

Pangea · 10-06-2017 07:29PM

yabadabado wrote: »

Ok folks Im finally able to order the FTTH and I'm wondering what is the best deal via phone or online ?

I tried online but didn't see any option to get out of DD so I done it on webchat but I wouldnt do it on webchat again. It doesn't constitute online for some reason and I was charged two euro more than the contract said, When I rang Eir to complain about the 2 euro she said it wasn't explained properly to me on web chat and they reimbursed me 24 euro for the year to cover the 2 euro charge.

bfa1509 · 10-06-2017 10:33PM

vintagevrs wrote: »

I noticed the pole at our house has been marked with spray paint. We are the very last house on the FTTH blue line and the spray paint I think said "EL" which I'm guessing is end of line or something. Hopefully works will be starting soon enough.

Yes, a splice box should appear on that pole soon enough. Lucky you!

If you look at all the other poles upwind of your line you should see a letter painted on every 3rd or 4th pole (depending on how many houses are on the road). There will be a splice box mounted to each of these marked poles.

Snowy_ · 11-06-2017 04:45PM

Well lads, made a new account just to clear up something here if I can get a bit of help

There 2 weeks ago a lad from Eir came up to the house on his van (so he was offical I suppose ðŸ˜‚) talking to my mam who answered the door ( I was still in bed, so whoops) he was telling her about that fibre is now available and that we should ring up Eir after the 1st of June. He gave her a leaflet/poster thing with the prices and all that mumbo on it about it, offered up to 1K-mb which is pretty hefty for our location, defo a jump from the silly 400kbs we get atm! ðŸ˜‚

But anyway, I didn't hear it all as I was still in bed and I only selectively-eavesdropped on some points but he said get onto Eir after the 1st. We waited until after that bank holis and my mam gave them a rang when I was out town, and as predicable as always, the Eir rep said that for her it says it's not available and that she didn't know this and that etc. Got a little heavy hearted when my mam told me but it still didn't sit right with me that the lad came to the house and told us all this, the vans working hours outside the house the past few weeks and that the town near by (which is Croom, in Limerick ) has it as the secondary school has fibre and to my knowledge even the locals have it too

So Im asking if I should get onto Eir tomorrow myself and have a word with them on what's going on, as that lad hardly called to all our neighbors for the laugh and the contractors ravilling leads because they could. I'm skeptical mostly now on account of that Irish times article that came out last night about the ComReg figures, but honestly we've been toyed around with Eir for years now it's gone behond a joke.

I hope we can get it but I'm half-half now, I saw a few lads on here who seem to be around my general area, I'm near the croom area and I know for a fact it's all wired and ready to go but whatever Eir is toying on about is behond me, are ye in a similar situation?

KOR101 · 11-06-2017 05:35PM

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/telcos-tell-the-truth-about-fibre-broadband-but-not-the-whole-truth-1.3114330

daraghwal · 11-06-2017 05:39PM

KOR101 wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/telcos-tell-the-truth-about-fibre-broadband-but-not-the-whole-truth-1.3114330

Sometimes this comes up that you need to buy a subscription. If it does, copy and past the few lines of the article into google, find it in google and click it there!

ED E · 11-06-2017 05:47PM

KOR101 wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/telcos-tell-the-truth-about-fibre-broadband-but-not-the-whole-truth-1.3114330

No big shockers there really.

Snowy_ · 11-06-2017 05:48PM

Yeah, that's the article I was referring to, Im somewhat iffy now haha

Hococop · 11-06-2017 05:49PM

Hopefully that won't happen,

The Cush · 11-06-2017 05:50PM

Snowy_ wrote: »

Well lads, made a new account just to clear up something here if I can get a bit of help

What does the NBP map indicate for your eircode - http://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/high-speed-broadband-map/Pages/Interactive-Map.aspx

http://fibrerollout.ie/eircode-lookup/

Snowy_ · 11-06-2017 05:57PM

I'm in a light blue area accroding to DCCs map on that site/with my eircode

The Cush · 11-06-2017 05:57PM

KOR101 wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/telcos-tell-the-truth-about-fibre-broadband-but-not-the-whole-truth-1.3114330

Numbers in the article taken from Comreg's Quarterly Key Data Report Q1 2017, published last week - https://www.comreg.ie/publication/quarterly-key-data-report-q1-2017/ , section 3 page 31

ednwireland · 11-06-2017 06:01PM

Unfortunately eir's fibre finishes 4poles from my house checked with NBP and they said I was outside the Telco fibre coverage and will be serviced by the NBP. But seeing as they don't seem to have anyway of been on the list or any rollout timeframes except It starts in 2018 I will go into my usual mode of this will deliver nothing just like the previous ones.

weird as the line past me services 7 houses not sure where the logic comes from in terms of where the line stops.

ED E · 11-06-2017 06:10PM

ednwireland wrote: »

any rollout timeframes except It starts in 2018 I will go into my usual mode of this will deliver nothing just like the previous ones.

This isnt like the NBS or previous actions. The NBP is a serious plan, maybe overly optimistic but its positive that they dumped the snake oil providers from the tender process.

That said, its 2018-2022 maybe 2025 and despite what Naughten might proclaim it wont be 100% coverage. So dont make any decisions based on its imminent arrival but dont lose hope if yours is a "forever home".

A deal with a neighbour to split a 350Mb link could always do well

The Cush · 11-06-2017 06:15PM

ednwireland wrote: »

weird as the line past me services 7 houses not sure where the logic comes from in terms of where the line stops.

Are you saying the fibre line goes past your house but services houses beyond yours?

How far is your house from the nearest pole on the fibre run, on the road? According to their policy they include properties where the house connection is no more than 50m from the NTP (network touch point) i.e. a pole on your property boundary that carries the main fibre cable which is used to serve a number of houses and the house connection is no more than 150m from the splice box.

ednwireland · 11-06-2017 06:16PM

ED E wrote: »

A deal with a neighbour to split a 350Mb link could always do well

unfortunately it would take some serious kit to link me up to a neighbours house even though I would know how to do it. the only house I would have a hope of putting wireless link across to is rented out so that doesn't help much unfortunately.

and if you read the faq's on the dept of communications website it looks anything but a serious plan at the moment, having tried to access previous ones its just as washy washy so I'll keep my scepticism thanks. should have bought a house closer than 2miles to the town (although didn't have a huge amount if options in 1997)

The Cush wrote: »

Are you saying the fibre line goes past your house but services houses beyond yours?

How far is your house from the nearest pole on the fibre run, on the road? According to their policy they include properties where the house connection is no more than 50m from the NTP (network touch point) i.e. a pole on your property boundary that carries the main fibre cable which is used to serve a number of houses and the house connection is no more than 150m from the splice box.

no it stops before my house (well over 50m) just there are houses on the line past my house just seems very arbitrary where they stopped that's all

The Cush · 11-06-2017 06:29PM

ednwireland wrote: »

just seems very arbitrary where they stopped that's all

They always appear to leave 1 or more houses at the end of a line out of their current plans so that the NBP winning bidders don't feel they're wasting their time putting a bid together. :rolleyes:

The Cush · 11-06-2017 06:46PM

More spin ...

Open Eir is running fibre along its existing telephone poles to connect rural Laois to its network. It is part of a nationwide rollout to 300,000 rural premises. The company says it has already provided fibre to 22k premises in Laois.

Laois County Council’s staff and councillors were given a presentation by Open Eir’s sales director Orlagh Nevin at the May meeting.

http://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/home/254512/telephone-poles-to-be-used-to-bring-broadband-to-thousands-in-laois.html

KOR101 · 11-06-2017 08:00PM

The Cush wrote: »

More spin ...

Lots of spin, but also lots of transparency.

Quarterly updates will be published on the Departments website. The Q1 2017 update will be published shortly and the eir rollout is in line with the Commitment Agreement. I am advised that in the period from 1 January to end March 2017, 30,064 premises have been passed. This brings to 40,114 the total subset of the 300k premises that eir has passed since they commenced work in late 2016. Of those, over 1,400 premises have been connected.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2017-05-10a.564&s=national+broadband+plan#g566.r

The Quarterly review was supposed to be published in May. The Department will be embarassed at missing the deadline, no doubt.

Jpmarn · 11-06-2017 11:31PM

Toured the Pallasgreen exchange area today. Fibre cables have been installed around Nicker village but no Fibre yet for some of the houses in nearby Bunavie. It looks like that fttc technology is been employed in Pallasgreen village. It looks like it is fed by a fibre cable from Dromkeen village by the main road using both new and existing ducts. I don't think there is fibre yet in old Pallas and Kilteely villages yet. I think fttc technology will be rolled out in Kilteely village.
Updating on the Inch St. Lawernce exchange the rollout of Fibre cables on the Ballyneety to Crecora road is not complete yet. I think crews are working a normal 5 day week. Splice boxes on poles near Ballyneety village. Out of Caherconlish village there is Fibre cables on the roads towards Grenane, Grange Cross Brittas and part of the back road to Boher. Brackets for Fibre cables have been installed on poles on the road to Newtown upper and a few poles going towards Hundredacres West. You can scroll back on my previous posts in this thread.

knipex · 12-06-2017 07:54AM

Snowy_ wrote: »

Well lads, made a new account just to clear up something here if I can get a bit of help

There 2 weeks ago a lad from Eir came up to the house on his van (so he was offical I suppose ðŸ˜‚) talking to my mam who answered the door ( I was still in bed, so whoops) he was telling her about that fibre is now available and that we should ring up Eir after the 1st of June. He gave her a leaflet/poster thing with the prices and all that mumbo on it about it, offered up to 1K-mb which is pretty hefty for our location, defo a jump from the silly 400kbs we get atm! ðŸ˜‚

But anyway, I didn't hear it all as I was still in bed and I only selectively-eavesdropped on some points but he said get onto Eir after the 1st. We waited until after that bank holis and my mam gave them a rang when I was out town, and as predicable as always, the Eir rep said that for her it says it's not available and that she didn't know this and that etc. Got a little heavy hearted when my mam told me but it still didn't sit right with me that the lad came to the house and told us all this, the vans working hours outside the house the past few weeks and that the town near by (which is Croom, in Limerick ) has it as the secondary school has fibre and to my knowledge even the locals have it too

So Im asking if I should get onto Eir tomorrow myself and have a word with them on what's going on, as that lad hardly called to all our neighbors for the laugh and the contractors ravilling leads because they could. I'm skeptical mostly now on account of that Irish times article that came out last night about the ComReg figures, but honestly we've been toyed around with Eir for years now it's gone behond a joke.

I hope we can get it but I'm half-half now, I saw a few lads on here who seem to be around my general area, I'm near the croom area and I know for a fact it's all wired and ready to go but whatever Eir is toying on about is behond me, are ye in a similar situation?

If you put your eircode in here http://fibrerollout.ie/eircode-lookup/ what does it say ?

If there fiber running outside your house and is there a splice box nearby ?

MajesticDonkey · 12-06-2017 09:16AM

Fibre rollout map updated, now with "home" icons on each home that's getting FTTH, which is pretty cool. They have however switched back to using Google Maps, as opposed to Mapbox, so the satellite imagery is pretty crap.

rob808 · 12-06-2017 09:42AM

MajesticDonkey wrote: »

Fibre rollout map updated, now with "home" icons on each home that's getting FTTH, which is pretty cool. They have however switched back to using Google Maps, as opposed to Mapbox, so the satellite imagery is pretty crap.

It a pretty cool update tell you your current speed and future speed.It seem to be best update so far the map pretty much show you if your getting FTTH or not on the map.

damienirel · 12-06-2017 10:03AM

Update is good alright not sure I like the set in stone winter 2018 date for my exchange though.

Any exchanges bumped up or down?

Chieftain · 12-06-2017 10:05AM

The eircode checker still telling me 'by the second half 2017', but today for the first time when I went into eir.ie it tells me:

Great News! Fibre to the Home is available at *****

Can it actually be true???? Is it best to order online folks. Am very tempted to get the 1000mbs package. 65 per month seems pretty good value, and you get BoxNation free with it and i'm paying 15 a month for that as it is so that would take bill down to 50 a month for the FTTH

KeRbDoG · 12-06-2017 10:08AM

KeRbDoG wrote: »

... http://fibrerollout.ie/eircode-lookup-results'

'by the second half' means they have a month right? I can see that slippin'

Yup, slippin'! Now states;

We estimate fibre broadband will be live in your area during the second half of 2017.

damienirel · 12-06-2017 10:20AM

I wonder what the actual figures are right now?

"
1.6 million
premises now passed with fibre

Over
90,000 are
Fibre to the Home
"

Bored Accountant · 12-06-2017 10:20AM

damienirel wrote: »

Update is good alright not sure I like the set in stone winter 2018 date for my exchange though. Any exchanges bumped up or down?

Sixmilebridge seems to be after getting pulled into Autumn/Winter 2017. I think it had been pushing into Q1 2018

plodder · 12-06-2017 10:29AM

That's a nice update to their site. I see they look for existing phone number with the eircode lookup now. This makes sense as it allows them to link the information, for their own records. For the first time ever, I can enter my details, it recognises my number, and says we're getting fibre this year (first half). One possible glitch in it due to the unusual phone setup we have. When I enter a second phone number at the same address, the lookup seems to hang.

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