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Eir rural FTTH thread
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Anyone seen those B4RN videos on youtube? It's a rural broadband scheme, in the north of England. Run by local groups, not BT, Virgin, Talk Talk or whoever. Immense speeds (700mb and higher). Why can't we do schemes like that over here? It's not like the rural north of England is awash with cash, but they seem to manage it.
I met Barry Forde (who started B4RN) a few years ago and I was really impressed with his drive and passion for the scheme. Other than some initial funding what it needed was the community as a whole to come together to deliver it - especially the farmers on whose land the fibre is run through. The farmers were given concessions for just having it on their land.
B4RN give full 1Gbps, symmetrical, PTP connections for £30pm! :eek: None of that PON-muck that Open eir and Siro are rolling out.
I carried out some initial soundings in my extremely rural part of North Tipperary to see if there would be any similar interest here. I got a fair amount of positive feedback, but there were some significant land owners who point blank refused to countenance the idea.
You get the same carry on in cities where people refuse to give VM permission to string the cable across their facia. There are some people who are plain inconsiderate.:mad:0 -
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BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
Have the 150m plus free uk and Irish calls.
Should be as above,first bill came in today
171.46
WTF
That is why I asked about the price/deal, etc. I assume the €171 includes setup fees? Couldn't see it in the pic. I'd be interested in the answers to your (obvious?) query.0 -
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So I finally had the KN installer turn up this morning, but I don't yet have FTTH
It seems what I was warned about a couple of weeks ago proved true for me: While we do have piping running from the pole underground to our house, the last couple of feet into the hallway uses a much narrower (20mm) conduit which he straight away said would prevent him pushing the fibre through. I did ask about getting rid of the copper wire, or using it to pull through, but he said he wasn't allowed to do that, and besides - when he gave it a yank it wasn't budging at either end, so mush be blocked or kinked somewhere.
He said almost half his installs are failing for this reason - it was typical to finish phone lines this way because the thick black piping from the pole is too inflexible at the house end - and he knows because he has done it many times himself when working as a sparkie!
So the alternate was to run the cable from the pole overhead to the side of our house, but the pole is slightly more in front of next door than our wall and so the neighbour's tall trees would need cutting, which mightn't be an impossibility, but is awkward
After a bit of lateral thinking we came up with a possible better solution: run the fibre from the pole with the splice box back to the previous pole which is in front of the other side of our plot (with no house or trees that side) and run it from there to the other side of our house.
So we're going to try that, but have to wait for another install day because they will need a lifter to get up the pole that side, as it's surrounded by uneven ground. So keeping fingers crossed...!0 -
It seems what I was warned about a couple of weeks ago proved true for me: While we do have piping running from the pole underground to our house, the last couple of feet into the hallway uses a much narrower (20mm) conduit which he straight away said would prevent him pushing the fibre through. I did ask about getting rid of the copper wire, or using it to pull through, but he said he wasn't allowed to do that, and besides - when he gave it a yank it wasn't budging at either end, so mush be blocked or kinked somewhere.
He said almost half his installs are failing for this reason - it was typical to finish phone lines this way because the thick black piping from the pole is too inflexible at the house end - and he knows because he has done it many times himself when working as a sparkie!
This is what eircom said previously about using 20mm conduit from the ETU to the master socketUse flexible duct (low friction circular 20mm ID) from the ETU to the Network Terminating Unit (NTU). This is essential to allow replacement / upgrade of telecoms cable and to provide for optic fibre cable to the home in future.0 -
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well im running into that 1Tb fup not a bother with my 1gig ftth never knew it existed on ordering ftth, i presumed (stupid me) that a 1gig connection would have a fup in line with the usage to be expected with a connection like that! do digiweb or pure have the same 1Tb fup? 0
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yup only westnet doesn'tIcyseanfitz wrote: »well im running into that 1Tb fup not a bother with my 1gig ftth never knew it existed on ordering ftth, i presumed (stupid me) that a 1gig connection would have a fup in line with the usage to be expected with a connection like that! do digiweb or pure have the same 1Tb fup?0 -
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Out of the blue, I got a call this morning just as I was leaving for work saying the installers were on their way with a hoist to do the job! So I now have FTTH installed!After a bit of lateral thinking we came up with a possible better solution: run the fibre from the pole with the splice box back to the previous pole which is in front of the other side of our plot (with no house or trees that side) and run it from there to the other side of our house.
So we're going to try that, but have to wait for another install day because they will need a lifter to get up the pole that side, as it's surrounded by uneven ground. So keeping fingers crossed...!
Honestly, judging by the complete disconnect between the notifications I've been getting from OpenEir Help and the installation dates+times which I've had both cancelled and attended, the whole installation rollout is a shambles! Just last night I was texted a new install date of Sep-13th!
With the hundreds of installs going on and so many failing, it must be a nightmare for the engineers! :rolleyes: And I'm lucky to be able to work from home to attend these visits, and can get home at a few minutes notice - most other customers must be hugely inconvenienced....
Anyway, haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet (had to run to work), except to test Wifi: 50MB/s down and up standing right next to it, but at the other end of the house, this drops off dramatically to single figures. :eek: The F2000 wifi really is rubbish :mad: And we only have solid walls downstairs - everything upstairs is hollow, as are the ceilings...
Will test a wired connection later to see how close we get to our 300MB package. The installer was saying most people on 150MB are only getting around 100MB, but seem to be happy with that as it's still 50x faster than they'd ever had before fibre :rolleyes:0 -
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