Eir rural FTTH thread

rob808 wrote: »

There not much you can do since this is a commercial rollout annoying as it is your going to have wait and see what happens what your house on the rollout map blue or green.

Eh? What are you on about? Re-read my posts.

Hey guys, great thread. Going to place my order next week, just doing some installation research. Excuse my lack of jargon. Looking at Decota's post (post number 4461, sorry i can't link or add photos yet)..

It looks like the fibre comes to a small white box, which then sends the signal via Ethernet to a powered white box, which then sends it to the F2000 modem?

I have fibre to the cabinet. My existing copper line goes to an access box on the outside of the house, from there it uses some wires from a Cat5e cable into my little comms cabinet where my F2000 is.

I guess they'll run the fibre to the access box on the outside of the house, where they'll put the first little (unpowered) white box. From there I guess they'll use existing the Cat5e cable to get to my comms cabinet where the powered white box would go. Does that sound correct? I hoped not to change to VOIP for the phone, so do you know if they need my full Cat5e cable to the comms room, or just some wires from it? Hopefully the latter so that i can keep my current phone setup.

Many thanks for any advice.
Rob

Pangea wrote: »

Hey Guys, the KN man just left here, Just installed it, Il explain all later, just doing speed tests and its at 93 plugged in from PC to modem, Im on the 150 package.
I was wondering is my adapter on my PC incapable of going past 100? I see it says 100mbs when I click on it.
Its a Realtek PCie gbe family controller

http://imgur.com/SKm05GL

Yep ..... hardware limitation of NIC.
I am surprised you are getting 93 .... would expect nearer 80 in real life situation.

Pangea wrote: »

Just tried a newer cable I had, and it showed up as a new network on my PC, with 1GBs speed .
Just done speed test and Im delighted!!!

So it was the cable that caused it.
Nicely done.

Nice speeds ...... hugely jealous! :P

oscarBravo wrote: »

Signal loss, I'm guessing - measured in dB. I would have thought that -15dB is the best you could hope to see on a PON network, but -18dB would be acceptable. And yes, there should be no significant loss between the DP and the ONT.

Tks, It was 13 at the DP and it was 14 when he finished with the ONT inside.

The Cush wrote: »

For the last week or so lads from Networx Cable And Civils (wearing KN hi-viz vests ) running ducting from the exchange to the poles at the start of the rural fibre routes.

Further update from my area (Murroe Limerick), just over a week ago they started rolling out fibre on the poles, one route completed, working on a second route this past week. For the past two days a crew has been installing the splice boxes on the first route. Scheduled live date is Autumn 2017.

Bet you some installers will accept attic installs and others will refuse. Wait for it.

The router I got is Dual band both 2.4GHZ and 5 GHZ. Which is best to use? Both options show up on my phone. I have been using 2.4 since last night and it runs smoothly, getting 47mbps downland speeds on wifi.

BarryM wrote: »

Would it be a deviation of this thread if those who are lucky enough to have FTTx would give their location and an indication of the price of the contract they have?

I notice that for places where the cable has been strung, such as Baltimore in West Cork, the date of actual connection is now out to Spring '18. At this rate I wonder will the national broadband plan ever be implemented?

The 300k isn't due to be finished until eoy 2018 and that is massively ambitious. Don't expect NBP till at least 2020 I reckon.

Pangea wrote: »

The router I got is Dual band both 2.4GHZ and 5 GHZ. Which is best to use? Both options show up on my phone. I have been using 2.4 since last night and it runs smoothly, getting 47mbps downland speeds on wifi.

rough rule of thumb is higher frequencies carry more info but not as far.

The choice is always there to swap between them to go for 5ghz on everything you can and drop down to 2.4 if you notice poor signal through walls etc.

but being in the same room 5ghz every day of the week

I saw a similar guy mention it earlier but when I initially did the speed test on ethernet I was only getting around 95Mbps, but on WiFi I was getting 150Mbps which I could not explain. I switched out the ethernet cable and im now pulling the full 150Mbps.

frozenfrozen wrote: »

rough rule of thumb is higher frequencies carry more info but not as far.

The choice is always there to swap between them to go for 5ghz on everything you can and drop down to 2.4 if you notice poor signal through walls etc.

but being in the same room 5ghz every day of the week

Thanks I tried the 5GHZ on my phone and now I'm getting 144mbs, 100 more than on 2.4

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Do you know what was wrong with the cable?

In my case I realised the cable was a cat5 which is only capable of 100.

cat 5 can handle gigabit so it was probably a bad cable

Splice boxes are being installed on the poles outside my house in the Inch St. Lawernce Limerick area. Not all splice boxes are the same as some of them serve as Junctions and booster boxes. I would have to appreciate the tedious work involved in the installation. It can take them more than hour in some cases to install a single box. They are over 90 minutes installing a booster box just down from house. But at least they took a tea break in that time. It could be next month before our line is live. It has to be passed by a supervisor whenever he comes around.