The Cush wrote: » A lot more if required, a box in my area has 14 slots for drop cables, although looking at the rollout here they will be servicing no more than 6-8 houses per box. Their plan is to have a box within 150m of a potential subscriber (3 poles), they have run drop cables 200m (4 poles) according to posts here.
sean72 wrote: » I live 450m from the exchange thats due to be activated (in the next month or so) the weird thing is that I can't see any of the above boxes on the poles between me and the exchange. I see them further down the road either side of the exchange but not between me and it. Its obviously not just my house, there are a reasonable amount of houses (the most densely populated part of a very rural area, 20 houses). Is this because we are so near the exchange?
vintagevrs wrote: » Yeah I would say so. Your current speeds are probably reasonable?
sean72 wrote: » Our area only has wireless broadband providers at present so 8mb down - 1mb up. This will be my first experience of wired/fibre broadband
vintagevrs wrote: » 450m from an exchange and no BB? Seems strange that. I would have thought ADSL would give you 8Mb no prob, and ADSL2 over 20mb?
ED E wrote: » Id guess its an old phone only MSAN. They'll add one VDSL rack to cover you potentially and start the FTTH at 1km out or more.
sean72 wrote: » Complete ignorance here but will 1000mb/s (or up there) be obtainable, I thought VDSL couldn't achieve anywhere near those speeds? You'll see in my previous post I corrected that I live 450m from the cabinet not the exchange..... I thought that anyone living along the 'yellow line' would be able to get up to 1000mb/s based on how much they wanted to pay?
The Cush wrote: » I was at the Ploughing today and I noticed at the end of a row close to the VW Experience was serviced for electricity, pothead junction box for phone and a 3M fibre splice box with white/blue stripe ducting attached for blown fibre I believe.
Gonzo wrote: » 946mb/s is about the fastest it goes in a real world speed test due to overheads. It is fibre to the home so distance is not important, the only thing that is important is that the FTTH line passes your home with a splice box for you to connect to. Some properties near the start of a yellow line may not be eligible for the service if they are already served by decent VDSL/FTTC. VDSL/FTTC is a completely different technology, a mixed fibre and copper solution, in Ireland the max that goes is 100mb/s with real world max of 95mb/s during speedtests and be located very close to a cabinet.
detective wrote: » I live on a FTTH planned route but I live 100m back from the road. The neighbours either side of me are covered but I was not, presumably because I am so far back from the road. ... Obviously I was pleasantly surprised by the reply. I hope they're right.
sean72 wrote: » I'm getting more confused by the day with this. Yes I live very near the cabinet (450m) but I am almost 100% sure there is no VDSL/FTTC in our area. Is there a way to check all this out for certain, I've done the eir line check thingy and I am sure my neighbour would have mentioned it. I thought that being near the cabinet would be an advantage, I know that 100mb speeds would be amazing but I was kinda going to go all out on this and was hoping for 1000 (900+)! If there is no broadband in the area currently will this be the way they approach the rollout speeds anyway ... those closest houses to the cabinet get a different 'lower' speeds. Or is this just if a current wired broadband service is there?
sean72 wrote: » I'm getting more confused by the day with this. Yes I live very near the cabinet (450m) but I am almost 100% sure there is no VDSL/FTTC in our area. Is there a way to check all this out for certain, I've done the eir line check thingy and I am sure my neighbour would have mentioned it.
sean72 wrote: » I get confused with cabinets and exchanges etc, I think I should have said cabinet that is what it says on the FTTH map legend.
sean72 wrote: » Complete ignorance here but will 1000mb/s (or up there) be obtainable, I thought VDSL couldn't achieve anywhere near those speeds? You'll see in my previous post I corrected that I live 450m from the cabinet not the exchange.....
sean72 wrote: » I thought that anyone living along the 'yellow line' would be able to get up to 1000mb/s based on how much they wanted to pay?
sean72 wrote: » I thought that being near the cabinet would be an advantage, I know that 100mb speeds would be amazing but I was kinda going to go all out on this and was hoping for 1000 (900+)! If there is no broadband in the area currently will this be the way they approach the rollout speeds anyway ... those closest houses to the cabinet get a different 'lower' speeds. Or is this just if a current wired broadband service is there?
The Cush wrote: » What is your local exchange/cabinet. I assume it was one of those few never upgraded for ADSL services? The exchange will likely be upgraded for VDSL as part of the FTTH rollout. In the process of upgrading a small local exchange for FTTH they run core fibre to it, if it's not already there, from a larger exchange. This is what happened in our area in Summer 2016. In the process VDSL/FTTC went live in August 2016 with FTTH work starting late last year, pole marking/hedge cutting etc. Our exchange did have congested ADSL2+ before core fibre was run but everything was over a wireless point-to-point link that wasn't capable of handling the traffic. You have roadside/street cabinets for FTTC and then you have cabinets in exchanges for eVDSL (exchange launched VDSL), same product basically, some technical differences. FTTC/VDSL (up to 100 Mbps) speed vs. distance As posted previously a fibre line running past you house is no guarantee of a FTTH connection and anyone capable of getting at least 30Mbps VDSL over existing copper may not be connected to FTTH, although someone posted recently that they were connected with a copper line capable of 30Mbps. 450m would mean a connection speed of around 90Mbps and would be unlikely to get FTTH for now. In areas closest to the cabinet/exchange with a dense population it is quicker to rollout hi-speed VDSL broadband via existing copper network and concentrating FTTH rollout on rural areas not capable of VDSL speeds.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Enter your Eircode here:http://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/high-speed-broadband-map/Pages/Interactive-Map.aspx Post what it says. Also enter your Eircode here (under Check Rural 300k):http://fibrerollout.ie Post what it says.
sean72 wrote: » Well TBH speeds of 90mb/s would be amazing, I suppose I was thinking of the highest possible connection. Is there an small advantage in that the line is already there ?? quicker installation??
sean72 wrote: » LIGHT BLUE AREA Your premises is in the commercial planned deployment area that will be covered on a commercial basis. For further information on rollout in your area go to http://fibrerollout.ie/ Great news! Your Eircode is on open eir’s rural fibre rollout programme offering fibre speed of between 30Mb/s and 1000Mb/s. We estimate fibre broadband will be live in your area during the second half of 2017.
Darkglasses wrote: » http://larryhynes.net/2017/i-tried-to-live-life-on-eir.html Funny/sad story of an Eir installation. FWIW, I've been extremely happy with my choice of Digiweb so far. Installation was done and dusted within 5 working days (as promised), and my 3 customer support calls have been dealt with totally satisfactorily. Would definitely recommend Digiweb to anyone apprehensive about Eir's reputation.
RoYoBo wrote: » If that is indeed a true story (and god help us but I really do think so, based on personal experience!) I don't know how that man maintained his sanity. I was laughing hysterically by the end of it, though - what an absolute farce. As for Digiweb, if it wasn't for the installation fee, I'd go with them - I might yet anyway.
BandMember wrote: » There was an Eir PR person on The Pat Kenny Show this morning talking about the roll out and also the NBP. No podcast or playback clip available on the Newstalk website yet (that I can see anyway).
