vintagevrs wrote: » Spoke to a KN installer recently who said something like the last 6 jobs he did he had to fail them. Eir were allowing customers to order, which resulted in him arriving at customer's house to wire up last bit of fibre for install only to find the fibre that was run to the customer was still dark as work further down the line still not completed. He said it happens all the time. Would give the impression OpenEir or Eir don't know themselves what's completed or not. Obviously sending install engineers out when the line isn't ready is keeping nobody happy.
spix wrote: » After he had pulled out my neighbours phone line and then spent ages putting it back in. .
JasonRyan wrote: » ... From Pallasgreen village (for about 1.5 miles) heading towards Tipperary, there is roadside digging going on for the underground ducting, so a little more progress is happening.
spix wrote: » Same thing happened on my street. 3 weeks after a KN technician showed up to install mine and said it wasn't actually live, another showed up at my neighbours. Told them mid installation it wasn't live, technician said it was. Came back 15min later... Sh** its not live he says. After he had pulled out my neighbours phone line and then spent ages putting it back in. Before this Eir had told me the new estimated live date was early July so they know its not live but still taking orders/sending installers out.
JasonRyan wrote: » I emailed fibrepower@openeir.ie and got a response within the hour to give me an updated date for connection. Hope this helps....
Icyseanfitz wrote: » out of interest what speeds are people on the 1000mbs package actually getting?
RoYoBo wrote: » I emailed them last week and got a response indicating the end of November. Our area had slipped a number of times, so I just sighed and settled in to wait. Lo and behold, an Eir rep came to the door yesterday and signed me up for the end of July! The fibre is hanging from the poles since the end of last year, but no 'black boxes' and no further work beyond a bit of tree trimming. So .... we'll see .... I just can't allow myself to get excited
damienirel wrote: » 2 of the biggest rollout areas in limerick - I can see that going for many more months. Clarina is still not finished. It's very slow progress for such an ambitious deadline.
Blogin wrote: » Pallasgreen is 25% live for 2 months now. Im assuming 25% more (those with splice boxes up for a month now) will go live soon. The remaining 50% only God knows when it will complete.
ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: » I met a colleague for a coffee in the Old Nelly Coffee shop there on 23rd May and there was a big crew doing ducting work right outside of it. I met my colleague there again yesterday. There was still a crew there and it looked like they hadn't moved in the, what, 5 weeks!!! :eek:
darkside71 wrote: » Thanks again Jason, got an email back from them last night. Seems our house is scheduled for this November. Hopefully it won't be pushed out past this. Just a fyi for anyone interested, we are about 6-7km outside Balbriggan. We had tree cutting and new poles done very early this year, but since then no activity from what I can see for any part of the Balbriggan rural rollout, although the urban part seems to be done a long time now. It will be nice to move away from the 8Mbps wireless connection we've had for over the past four years, to be fair it been reliable with low latency but it's not really fit for purpose these days with the small download caps.
JasonRyan wrote: » Yeah, some areas here have fibre + splice boxes and other roads have fibre only at the moment. My road has had half the length of it ran with fibre and splice boxes fitted, the rest of the road had not had the fibre continued. Even thought the houses are all passing on the rollout map. The fibre crews have moved onto a different area not, makes no sense the way they are being told to jump from area to area.
RoYoBo wrote: » The Eir rep says it is, the where/when map says it is, but Open Eir via email says not until end of November?
garroff wrote: » I checked houses near me that are marked live on the map. Ducting is installed but not a metre of overhead or ug fibre. Who are they kidding?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Apparently they will have 70000 premises passed by the end of this week. I honestly don't know where these are or what they are counting as passed. I can only find 45000 in areas announced as live.https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/eir-on-course-to-hit-broadband-target-agreed-with-government-1.3141027
RoYoBo wrote: » What I'd like to know is if there are no splice boxes (just the run of coiled cable/fiber hanging on poles that's been there since last year) can the area actually be live for FTTH? The Eir rep says it is, the where/when map says it is, but Open Eir via email says not until end of November? (
fbradyirl wrote: » he said it cannot be done yet as there are "no DPs yet in the pits" (whatever that means) and that splicing needs to be done yet. He said the planned installs for pre-orders will fail.
fbradyirl wrote: » There seems to be a common pattern emerging in this thread. It feels as if the "live" data on the map certainly cannot be taken as gospel and some "cooking of the books" is going on to meet mid year deadlines. On the map it says FTTH is live and ready in my area in Kilcolgan (south Galway). So I was able to order with Eir and got an install date. But I spoke with a KN engineer in the estate Friday and he said it cannot be done yet as there are "no DPs yet in the pits" (whatever that means) and that splicing needs to be done yet. He said the planned installs for pre-orders will fail.
snowstreams wrote: » Strangely the wifi on my phone has been very slow since I got the new fibre in. Speed test was fast and everyone elses devices in the house were very fast and responsive. I changed the DNS on the router to google DNS but nothing changed for my phone. I've a 3 year old phone so maybe its a bit out of date/damaged. (HTC one m8, water damaged too!) Then after googling, i found a solution online that said that my DNS cache in my phone wasnt getting updated for some reason. I downloaded an app called DNSet which uses a vpn to get through to the google DNS, and then all of a sudden my phone was up to full speed! Just thought Id mention it here in case someone else notices that apps or browsing is slow on certain devices. Any of those dns setting apps on google play seem to do the trick.
damienirel wrote: » lol fake news hahahahahaha!
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d31b0y wrote: » Failed install this morning. Eir took order. Openeir arranged install. KN guy came out. No infrastructure in place in my area. He couldn't tell me when it would be live. Pointed out where the lines likely are (in the ground, buried) and just told me to keep an eye out for work being done. Said it was the same situation in a lot of my village at the moment. KN guy was a nice guy. Answered some questions I had. I'll need to run a new duct down to my house for the install but he said don't bother doing that until I see work done. Ominous! Coolgreany area, Inch exchange. Fibre rollout map text has changed since I last checked it;
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