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Eir rural FTTH thread

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  • #6542
    grouchyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭grouchyman


    grouchyman wrote: »
    Thanks irelandjoe. email sent.

    But in the meantime I stuck my eircode into the eir fibrechecker and it came back as fibre available. I checked with eir sales and they tell me that the I will be able to order broadband from the 19th July so happy days. :D

    The openeir map is still showing as fibre not available but that's just the timelag I reckon. Gives me a chance to think about what package I want - probably the 150mb

    Should have said that openeir followed up with the following para un an email I got at 11.30 this morning

    "Based on the information you provided via our web-form, I have reviewed your details and I can advise, you are within an area due to be fibre enabled; the current forecast date suggests that your area should be connected to the fibre network by the end of July 2017."


  • #6543
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,081 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    vintagevrs wrote: »
    Unfortunately typical underground ducting on residential properties that is used is single cable underground ducting (scud) and is capable of carrying just a single line. In these circumstances it is the property owner, not Eir's responsibility to have ground works completed. This will normal involve a digger and a fibre underground cable installation team (fuc-it) on site to complete and sign off on the works.

    I may have made all that up and they can just pull the new fibre cable through your existing ducting hassle free. A good way to check they will be able to do this is check if you pull on the phone line where it comes out of the duct at your property does it move the cable on the pole. Joking aside I had to dig up our garden last year as our duct was damaged and had snagged the phone line.

    :D:D


  • #6544
    Blogin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Blogin


    Gwynston wrote: »
    I tried that myself today and got a reply within 2 hours!

    I asked if they could tell me what the schedule was in my area of the Claregalway exchange because part of it is already live. But it's a big exchange and there's no indication on the map when the rest will be completed. The map originally said "1st half of 2017" (which is what the eircode lookup still reports) but now just says 470 premises can access FTTH (of the total 1400 planned).

    I sent openeir my eircode and they replied "the current forecast date suggests that your area should be connected to the fibre network by the end of September 2017". So not quite the news I was hoping for, but at least may area is still on their radar and they will hopefully get around to finishing the remainder of Claregalway.

    So it's possible to get this more granular detail from openeir, but it's not very efficient having to email them rather, than it being in the online checker.

    I'm in a similar situation so I guess I can expect a few more months delay. This rollout seems to have stopped rolling.


  • #6545
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,043 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    The Cush wrote: »
    Temporary fix

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    Temporary fixes have a habit of becoming permanent arrangements...:D


  • #6546
    rob808
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭rob808


    vintagevrs wrote: »
    Unfortunately typical underground ducting on residential properties that is used is single cable underground ducting (scud) and is capable of carrying just a single line. In these circumstances it is the property owner, not Eir's responsibility to have ground works completed. This will normal involve a digger and a fibre underground cable installation team (fuc-it) on site to complete and sign off on the works.

    I may have made all that up and they can just pull the new fibre cable through your existing ducting hassle free. A good way to check they will be able to do this is check if you pull on the phone line where it comes out of the duct at your property does it move the cable on the pole. Joking aside I had to dig up our garden last year as our duct was damaged and had snagged the phone line.
    I wondering could they pull the copper line out and replace it with the fibre line in your duct.I wouldnt need my copper line anymore so why keep it.


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  • #6547
    vintagevrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,392 ✭✭✭vintagevrs


    rob808 wrote: »
    I wondering could they pull the copper line out and replace it with the fibre line in your duct.I wouldnt need my copper line anymore so why keep it.

    Yeah that would be the easiest way to do it. Can't imagine the copper being used again. I now have fibre on the pole outside my house. No idea when I'll be able to order. Think a splice box is all that is needed now.


  • #6548
    Bored Accountant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Bored Accountant


    rob808 wrote: »
    I wondering could they pull the copper line out and replace it with the fibre line in your duct.I wouldnt need my copper line anymore so why keep it.

    No, for whatever backwards reason, the majority of the packages are phone & broadband, so they activate your copper telephone line also.
    They won't pull out your copper, in case you for some strange reason decide to go backwards and don't want fibre anymore.


  • #6549
    Snowy_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭Snowy_


    Just got onto the sales rep there, checked this morning on both the extreme fibre and normal fibre rollout page with the eircode + number one, both say congratulations! However when I got onto some lad on sales, he said that it'll be available on the 19th of July, and that I can pre-order it and whatnot. I didn't pre-order on the off chance they pull their distinct "scratch that, we meant 6 months from now" excuse hahaha, I'll probably preorder a few days before hand anyway so, here's hoping!


  • #6550
    JasonRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭JasonRyan


    Gwynston wrote: »
    I tried that myself today and got a reply within 2 hours!

    I asked if they could tell me what the schedule was in my area of the Claregalway exchange because part of it is already live. But it's a big exchange and there's no indication on the map when the rest will be completed. The map originally said "1st half of 2017" (which is what the eircode lookup still reports) but now just says 470 premises can access FTTH (of the total 1400 planned).

    I sent openeir my eircode and they replied "the current forecast date suggests that your area should be connected to the fibre network by the end of September 2017". So not quite the news I was hoping for, but at least may area is still on their radar and they will hopefully get around to finishing the remainder of Claregalway.

    So it's possible to get this more granular detail from openeir, but it's not very efficient having to email them rather, than it being in the online checker.


    I also emailed them as my area (Pallasgreen) is part wired with roads a couple of hundred meters from me all cabled up with splice boxes fitted.
    My road had cable ran for the first 250m and then no more! The houses on the road are covered with the magic light blue circles, and the whole area is listing 1st half of 2017 for completion. Parts of the area are live since the start of May.

    But the fact that no more fibre has been ran on our road and we are 2 weeks away from end of 1st half of 2017 made me email OpenEir.
    Got back a reply in about an hour to say address should be live before end of Sept, so we will cross the fingers and hope.....


  • #6551
    Blogin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Blogin


    JasonRyan wrote: »
    I also emailed them as my area (Pallasgreen) is part wired with roads a couple of hundred meters from me all cabled up with splice boxes fitted.
    My road had cable ran for the first 250m and then no more! The houses on the road are covered with the magic light blue circles, and the whole area is listing 1st half of 2017 for completion. Parts of the area are live since the start of May.

    But the fact that no more fibre has been ran on our road and we are 2 weeks away from end of 1st half of 2017 made me email OpenEir.
    Got back a reply in about an hour to say address should be live before end of Sept, so we will cross the fingers and hope.....

    Hopefully it comes faster than that. Maybe they are just telling everyone they are 3 months behind schedule.


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  • #6552
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Darwin wrote: »
    I'm supposed to get FTTH in Q1 2018. Our telephone line runs under our driveway to the nearest pole which is about 10 metres from the house. Sorry for the noob question, but will the driveway have to be dug up to lay the fibre or can it somehow be routed through the existing duct?
    Depends on what size the duct is, eircom recommend 32 or 37mm I.D. duct to the pole and any new builds I've seen in recent times have installed this duct. What size duct was installed at your house?

    Duct may also be blocked, preventing any further cabling being run.
    Bored Accountant wrote: »
    for whatever backwards reason, the majority of the packages are phone & broadband, so they activate your copper telephone line also.
    They won't pull out your copper, in case you for some strange reason decide to go backwards and don't want fibre anymore.

    This may change in the coming months with eir's launch of VOB, also open-eir are to launch a 6 month wholesale promotion for service providers to migrate subscribers from copper to NGA/CGA/NGB VUA products according to a revised OE Bitstream Price List proposal document - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=103360889


  • #6553
    Chieftain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭Chieftain


    Snowy_ wrote: »
    Just got onto the sales rep there, checked this morning on both the extreme fibre and normal fibre rollout page with the eircode + number one, both say congratulations! However when I got onto some lad on sales, he said that it'll be available on the 19th of July, and that I can pre-order it and whatnot. I didn't pre-order on the off chance they pull their distinct "scratch that, we meant 6 months from now" excuse hahaha, I'll probably preorder a few days before hand anyway so, here's hoping!


    My FTTH will be available on 5th July, so I pre-ordered it. Its kind of pointless though, because they wont arrange the installation until the FTTH is live. Doesn't seem to be any benefit to pre-ordering at all


  • #6554
    Jpmarn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Jpmarn


    Update from the Inch St Lawernce area in County Limerick serving the villages of Caherconlish and Ballyneety. All minor roads out of Caherconlish are wired up. The main road both north and south have not.
    In Ballyneety the minor road west towards Crecora and North towards Limerick. I went for a spin around the rest of the exchange area and I saw no evidence of rollout work going on anywhere. The Newtown road out of Caherconlish was wired up last week. A man attached to Openeir was down my road (Bohermore) last Friday. He put on code markings on some of the poles and in some cases on the road where the pole was overgrown with ivey etc.


  • #6555
    damienirel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭damienirel


    Jpmarn wrote: »
    Update from the Inch St Lawernce area in County Limerick serving the villages of Caherconlish and Ballyneety. All minor roads out of Caherconlish are wired up. The main road both north and south have not.
    In Ballyneety the minor road west towards Crecora and North towards Limerick. I went for a spin around the rest of the exchange area and I saw no evidence of rollout work going on anywhere. The Newtown road out of Caherconlish was wired up last week. A man attached to Openeir was down my road (Bohermore) last Friday. He put on code markings on some of the poles and in some cases on the road where the pole was overgrown with ivey etc.


    Another exchange area that's gonna miss it's deadline, kinda expected this from your last update JP. However at least it's progressing a bit. Brutal slow rollout for those waiting until end of 2018 it's not looking good.


  • #6556
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    KNN now busy in eastern parts of Ratoath working on FTTH towards Ashbourne area.

    Also lots of fibre up on poles at the Tara exchange area on the Screen road heading towards Rathfeigh.


  • #6557
    CyberSecurity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭CyberSecurity


    anyone got any info on FTTH for Skerries. Moving into a new build in September.


  • #6558
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    CyberSecurity wrote: »
    anyone got any info on FTTH for Skerries. Moving into a new build in September.

    If you're inside the town FTTC coverage is pretty great(bar a few streets near the exchange) so you won't be left stuck while you wait.


  • #6559
    abmoygup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭abmoygup


    Was depending on getting FTTH and waiting for some kind of upgrade for many years, my speed is about 3Mbs. However, even though the FTTH line goes through my area, my house is not marked as one of the planned FTTH houses. My house is down a private driveway off the road, and there is a second house down here which has also been skipped. Many houses in the area are separated from the road in this way but they have a blue icon and are included. It's so disappointing. Eir said there is no way that my house can be added to the plan even though I offered to contribute towards any extra cost in extending to my house. Is there nothing that can be done? It seems unfair that they just skipped mine.


  • #6560
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    abmoygup wrote: »
    . Eir said there is no way that my house can be added to the plan even though I offered to contribute towards any extra cost in extending to my house. Is there nothing that can be done? It seems unfair that they just skipped mine.

    Nothing to be done bar waiting for the NBP rollout to start. Lots of houses in the same position as yours along the rural rollout routes.


  • #6561
    abmoygup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭abmoygup


    The Cush wrote: »
    Nothing to be done bar waiting for the NBP rollout to start. Lots of houses in the same position as yours along the rural rollout routes.

    Thanks, if that ever comes, will it be 30Mbps or is there any chance it would be higher given that FTTH is already in the area?


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  • #6562
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    abmoygup wrote: »
    if that ever comes, will it be 30Mbps or is there any chance it would be higher given that FTTH is already in the area?
    It'll be FTTH.


  • #6563
    snowstreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Have many here gotten the Eir tv deal?
    I have terrible tv signal at my house so Im going to get it with my fibre package.

    Im just wondering though what bandwidth does the TV service need. I have an old router that sits near my current tv but my eir fibre is going to be coming in the other end of the house.
    So im planning to use the wifi modem as a bridge. Just not sure what bandwidth it might need to work properly.
    Would 54mbps be enough?


  • #6564
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    snowstreams wrote: »
    Have many here gotten the Eir tv deal?
    I have terrible tv signal at my house so Im going to get it with my fibre package.

    Im just wondering though what bandwidth does the TV service need. I have an old router that sits near my current tv but my eir fibre is going to be coming in the other end of the house.
    So im planning to use the wifi modem as a bridge. Just not sure what bandwidth it might need to work properly.
    Would 54mbps be enough?

    Tell the installer, he'll fit homeplugs to do the link. Wireless would be terrible and 11g(54) would be very unlikely to work.

    Units reserve 8Mb for HD and 4Mb for SD.


  • #6565
    snowstreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Thanks ED.
    I think I have old homeplugs around. They should easily be able to handle the 8Mb for a HD channel so.
    I was reading that some people seem to have issues with multicast getting blocked when using 3rd party modems, so maybe this is the easiest option.


  • #6566
    Techspert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Techspert


    Just to update my previous posts:

    My FTTH broadband was installed about six weeks ago. I'm in Allenwood South in Co. Kildare. To say it's a big improvement is an understatement, it's superb!
    I'm getting more than 930Mbps DL and almost 100Mbps UL and it never slows down. On one day there were nine different KN teams installing FTTH in my area.
    Well done Eir, this broadband has really improved our quality of life in this beautiful rural area.

    20170612-Eircom-932Mbps.JPG


  • #6567
    I_HAVE_NO_NAME
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭I_HAVE_NO_NAME


    Good news! Just seen lots of blue markings over the eircom manhole covers and on poles. Can anyone tell me what the blue marking 'L' means on the poles and the manhole covers? Just excited might be actually getting FTTH this year!


  • #6568
    MajesticDonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭MajesticDonkey


    Techspert wrote: »
    Just to update my previous posts:

    My FTTH broadband was installed about six weeks ago. I'm in Allenwood South in Co. Kildare. To say it's a big improvement is an understatement, it's superb!
    I'm getting more than 930Mbps DL and almost 100Mbps UL and it never slows down. On one day there were nine different KN teams installing FTTH in my area.
    Well done Eir, this broadband has really improved our quality of life in this beautiful rural area.

    20170612-Eircom-932Mbps.JPG

    I absolutely hate you.


  • #6569
    Techspert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Techspert


    MajesticDonkey wrote: »
    I absolutely hate you.

    I know, I know, even my friends in Dublin with 350Mbps are jealous. For years and years we had terrible 10Mbps broadband with a 200GB cap which we hit just about every month. Now, with 1,000Mbps I don't even know what to do with it. It's weird that most webservers are slowing me down now, it's hard to hit more than 250megs download with most companies. As an example, I downloaded an new Xbox game last night and the fastest it downloaded was 215Megs, still brilliant. That's about 100 times faster than my last broadband company. The game downloaded in less than five minutes, it used to take hours.
    You will get decent broadband eventually, but I know how you feel, the wait is horrible!!


  • #6570
    Chieftain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭Chieftain


    Techspert wrote: »
    I know, I know, even my friends in Dublin with 350Mbps are jealous. For years and years we had terrible 10Mbps broadband with a 200GB cap which we hit just about every month. Now, with 1,000Mbps I don't even know what to do with it. It's weird that most webservers are slowing me down now, it's hard to hit more than 250megs download with most companies. As an example, I downloaded an new Xbox game last night and the fastest it downloaded was 215Megs, still brilliant. That's about 100 times faster than my last broadband company. The game downloaded in less than five minutes, it used to take hours.
    You will get decent broadband eventually, but I know how you feel, the wait is horrible!!


    That speed sounds fantastic - i'm due to get the 1000mb next month so really looking to getting that. Do you have any issues with going over the 1TB allowance? Im using 400-500 gigs at the moment on my 12mbps broadband so could easily see that figure doubling


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  • #6571
    CyberSecurity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭CyberSecurity


    Techspert wrote: »
    Just to update my previous posts:

    My FTTH broadband was installed about six weeks ago. I'm in Allenwood South in Co. Kildare. To say it's a big improvement is an understatement, it's superb!
    I'm getting more than 930Mbps DL and almost 100Mbps UL and it never slows down. On one day there were nine different KN teams installing FTTH in my area.
    Well done Eir, this broadband has really improved our quality of life in this beautiful rural area.

    20170612-Eircom-932Mbps.JPG

    Would you mind sharing the fibre router name / model number that eir have provided you with? Interested to see the spec on it , ports etc.

    Thanks a mill


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