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Eir rural FTTH thread

rob808

I made this thread for people on eir rural blue line FTTH please keep here and don't post in Eircom FTTH 66 towns 1 Gb thread about rural FTTH rollout.

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DanRocksOn

The ducting I am seeing is different. Its like a white ish ducting running up the pole and left with a loop.
I will post a picture later.
The ducting in the picture above is appears on poles further up the road

tsue921i8wljb3

DanRocksOn wrote: »

The ducting I am seeing is different. Its like a white ish ducting running up the pole and left with a loop.
I will post a picture later.
The ducting in the picture above is appears on poles further up the road

That sounds like the ducting they use when blowing the fibre with compressed air.

The Cush

DanRocksOn wrote: »

The ducting I am seeing is different. Its like a white ish ducting running up the pole and left with a loop.

Local here, they recently rolled out ducting from the exchange to the first poles on the fibre routes and the ducting appears to be a lighter colour.

tsue921i8wljb3

Dan is this similar to the ducting?

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DanRocksOn

Yes. that looks like but without the black fibre.
Assume they will blow the fibre thru the ducting as they work down the road.
Or maybe go so far and wait for the NBP to pay for it :-(

tsue921i8wljb3

DanRocksOn wrote: »

Yes. that looks like but without the black fibre.
Assume they will blow the fibre thru the ducting as they work down the road.
Or maybe go so far and wait for the NBP to pay for it :-(

Hopefully you get covered. If you get a chance try speaking to some of the guys doing the work. Any of them I have spoken to have been very helpful and they could give you more concrete information.

KOR101

DanRocksOn wrote: »

Yes. that looks like but without the black fibre.
Assume they will blow the fibre thru the ducting as they work down the road.
Or maybe go so far and wait for the NBP to pay for it :-(

You never know what's happening behind the scenes. I know someone in Eir and am planning to ask him to extend the route to my house. I've no idea whether it will work but he's local and senior enough.

The Cush

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

Dan is this similar to the ducting?

That looks like the ducting from my exchange to the start of the fibre routes.

tsue921i8wljb3

The Cush wrote: »

That looks like the ducting from my exchange to the start of the fibre routes.

I assume the distance is too far to pull or push manually so they blow it instead.

The Cush

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

I assume the distance is too far to pull or push manually so they blow it instead.

That would be correct, the hydrodare is used on the shorter run between poles.

The Cush

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raydator

Well, I had mine installed last Saturday.

Got the 1000mb Extreme connection. So running speed test every 4 hours since then with mixed results.

Downstream
Min Speed - 120 Mb/s
Max Speed - 820 Mb/s (seen only once)
Avg Speed - 410 Mb/s

Upstream
Min Speed - 89 Mb/s
Max Speed - 99 Mb/s
Avg Speed - 92 Mb/s

I have Cat6e cables running to and from Eir Router and PC.

Why would I be seen fluctuating speeds?

The area only went live last week, so it can't be contention, could it?

Unhappy paying for 1000mb and on avg never getting over half the speed expected.

raydator

Test results from the last hour.

HairySalmon

I've been looking up the roll out maps and my house falls just out of eir's fibre range by literally metres. I'm not far from the main road yet I can see houses much far can avail of it.

Is there any contact that can be made to discuss the issue?

ItHurtsWhenIP

raydator wrote: »

Well, I had mine installed last Saturday.

Got the 1000mb Extreme connection. So running speed test every 4 hours since then with mixed results.

Downstream
Min Speed - 120 Mb/s
Max Speed - 820 Mb/s (seen only once)
Avg Speed - 410 Mb/s

Upstream
Min Speed - 89 Mb/s
Max Speed - 99 Mb/s
Avg Speed - 92 Mb/s

I have Cat6e cables running to and from Eir Router and PC.

Why would I be seen fluctuating speeds?

The area only went live last week, so it can't be contention, could it?

Unhappy paying for 1000mb and on avg never getting over half the speed expected.

There is no Cat6e, but presumably you're using Cat5e or Cat6 so should be well able to support the Gigabit connection. Have you used a different cable (in case the first one is faulty)?

raydator wrote: »

Test results from the last hour.

I don't recognise that speed tester. Most on here use speedtest.net so try a few of those and share the results.

rob808

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HairySalmon wrote: »

I've been looking up the roll out maps and my house falls just out of eir's fibre range by literally metres. I'm not far from the main road yet I can see houses much far can avail of it.

Is there any contact that can be made to discuss the issue?

http://fibrerollout.ie put your Eircode and number see what result you get.

BarryM

Interesting posts re the QOS, and the ideas of changing cables etc. I mentioned a while back that it might be useful to indicate the price being paid. Maybe people are reluctant but it could be interesting to try to evaluate the value? OK, "value" is subjective but could be useful.

raydator

ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: »

There is no Cat6e, but presumably you're using Cat5e or Cat6 so should be well able to support the Gigabit connection. Have you used a different cable (in case the first one is faulty)?

It cost a bit more but I have cat6E running around my house.

Category 6 Enhanced (6e) is an augmented specification designed to double transmission frequency to 500 MHz. By wrapping Category 6e in grounded foil shielding, full 10-Gigabit Ethernet speeds can be reached without sacrificing the max cable length of 100 meters.

I have also switched to a cat5e cable run from the Eir router directly to my PC which sits no more than 12 feet away from the router and i still get between 400-500.

ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: »

I don't recognise that speed tester. Most on here use speedtest.net so try a few of those and share the results.

The KN engineer told me to keep away from speedtest.net (Ookla) and any site that uses the Ookla test engine.
He pointed me to https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/ndt/

frozenfrozen

can you get the proper speeds on speedtest.net just to rule out it being anything to do with your pc etc?

raydator

frozenfrozen wrote: »

can you get the proper speeds on speedtest.net just to rule out it being anything to do with your pc etc?

Just done one now and it's very slow this morning.

I have also tried a laptop with an Intel Gigabit network card. Same results.

frozenfrozen

that's very poor have you done the old turn it off and on again of the router?

other than that it looks like it's not a fault on your side of the equation

raydator

So I called Eir tech. I should be receiving 1000mb or close too (950 or above).

As my order was only installed on Saturday it's still showing as "post complete" and therefore not completed.

So I will have to wait until tomorrow and then they will be able to fault check the connection and test the speed to the router.

They are happy with the current setup i.e. cable type, cable length and network card speeds.

ED E

raydator wrote: »

So I called Eir tech. I should be receiving 1000mb or close too (950 or above).

As my order was only installed on Saturday it's still showing as "post complete" and therefore not completed.

So I will have to wait until tomorrow and then they will be able to fault check the connection and test the speed to the router.

They are happy with the current setup i.e. cable type, cable length and network card speeds.

You should use iPerf to test your own cabling. Just because its 5e/6 doesnt mean its actually crimped sufficiently.

ItHurtsWhenIP

raydator wrote: »

It cost a bit more but I have cat6E running around my house.

Category 6 Enhanced (6e) is an augmented specification designed to double transmission frequency to 500 MHz. By wrapping Category 6e in grounded foil shielding, full 10-Gigabit Ethernet speeds can be reached without sacrificing the max cable length of 100 meters.

I have also switched to a cat5e cable run from the Eir router directly to my PC which sits no more than 12 feet away from the router and i still get between 400-500.

The KN engineer told me to keep away from speedtest.net (Ookla) and any site that uses the Ookla test engine.
He pointed me to https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/ndt/

According to this:

Category 6e is not a standard, and is frequently misused because category 5 followed with 5e as an enhancement on category 5.

But there is Cat 6A, which is what it sounds like you have been wired with.

Use iPerf as ED E suggested.

BorneTobyWilde

Have the 150m plus free uk and Irish calls.

Should be as above,first bill came in today
171.46
WTF

raydator

ED E wrote: »

You should use iPerf to test your own cabling. Just because its 5e/6 doesnt mean its actually crimped sufficiently.

Can you suggest the test to run as I have never used iPerf before?

I have iPerf sitting on my laptop with iperf3 -s, and on my computer waiting to perform the test but I have never used it.

frozenfrozen

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Have the 150m plus free uk and Irish calls.

Should be as above,first bill came in today
171.46
WTF

does your bill state what the extra charge was? you could have gone over your 'unlimited' data

frozenfrozen

raydator wrote: »

Can you suggest the test to run as I have never used iPerf before?

I have iPerf sitting on my laptop with iperf3 -s, and on my computer waiting to perform the test but I have never used it.

-s on one and -c 192.168.1.3 on the other

replace that ip with the ip of the pc running the iperf server

raydator

frozenfrozen wrote: »

-s on one and -c 192.168.1.3 on the other

replace that ip with the ip of the pc running the iperf server

D:\iperf>iperf3 -c 192.168.1.10
Connecting to host 192.168.1.10, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 56230 connected to 192.168.1.10 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   110 MBytes   924 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Can you decode what it telling me?

rob808

raydator wrote: »

D:\iperf>iperf3 -c 192.168.1.10
Connecting to host 192.168.1.10, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 56230 connected to 192.168.1.10 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   110 MBytes   924 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

Can you decode what it telling me?

well going by that your get close to your 1Gb your never get your full speed usually 940 mbits is about right.