Eir rural FTTH thread

plodder · 10-10-2017 02:27PM

irishd wrote: »

I went ahead and ordered, anyway, quoting install in 5-7 working days ... we'll see!

Now to find a decent router to use instead of the F2000 PoC ...

Let us know how you get on. I'm going to rent a mini-digger and install the duct myself first.

RoYoBo · 10-10-2017 02:41PM

KOR101 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/eir-fined-10500-after-overcharging-pensioner-by-148-36210246.html

What a crock! And Eir gets fined buttons! No wonder they can keep on keeping on. How many more people never went the length of Comreg or anywhere else and just paid up and shut up? Horrible company :mad:

frozenfrozen · 10-10-2017 02:51PM

Our situation is still bad, I won't even go into detail but Eir could offer us free internet for the year and at this stage we wouldn't accept it.

I read people saying stay away but thought I did my due diligence asking every question and meeting higher up people etc, but I should have listened and stayed away.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee,
I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!'"

cnocbui · 10-10-2017 03:09PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Our situation is still bad, I won't even go into detail but Eir could offer us free internet for the year and at this stage we wouldn't accept it.

I read people saying stay away but thought I did my due diligence asking every question and meeting higher up people etc, but I should have listened and stayed away.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee,
I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!'"

The US didn't even exist when the original of this 'fool me...' proverb was first formulated.

“For once deceiv'd, was his; but twice were mine”

Achilles during the “THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES” in Homer’s Iliad (Translation Alexander Pope)

762 BC, give or take a couple.

frozenfrozen · 10-10-2017 03:51PM

your head wasn't even formulated when the reference went over it

garroff · 10-10-2017 04:51PM

"And still they gazed and still their wonder grew......."

Ninkel · 10-10-2017 05:05PM

Et tu, Brute !

plodder · 10-10-2017 05:53PM

garroff wrote: »

"And still they gazed and still their wonder grew......."

don't misunderestimate them..

Gipo3 · 10-10-2017 08:40PM

Supposed to have installation tomorrow. Do eir contact before install?

Pangea · 10-10-2017 08:43PM

Gipo3 wrote: »

Supposed to have installation tomorrow. Do eir contact before install?

Kn ring you half hour before hand, but sometimes they just show up without notice.

rob808 · 10-10-2017 08:45PM

Gipo3 wrote: »

Supposed to have installation tomorrow. Do eir contact before install?

yea they should contract you my install tomorrow and Eir call me to confirm my install for tomorrow from 9am to 5pm

BarryM · 11-10-2017 06:42AM

KOR101 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/eir-fined-10500-after-overcharging-pensioner-by-148-36210246.html

Says a lot about eir's attitude and systems. However, says a lot more about the possibility of any normal pensioner affording ffth.

Blogin · 11-10-2017 10:07AM

No installs here today. After booking a half day off work, kn came this morning and say the boxes on the poles are not live.

rob808 · 11-10-2017 12:28PM

Blogin wrote: »

No installs here today. After booking a half day off work, kn came this morning and say the boxes on the poles are not live.

yea mine seem a failed install the duct to small so does anybody know any contractors that could do me a new duct.

Gipo3 · 11-10-2017 12:40PM

Installed today through 1/2" hydrodare no probs.

Gonzo · 11-10-2017 02:20PM

rob808 wrote: »

yea mine seem a failed install the duct to small so does anybody know any contractors that could do me a new duct.

thats a pity. Is there not a telephone pole near your home, where they can drop the wire from the pole to the roof of your house.?

It's a pity KN don't offer to fix the duct, even for an extra fee.

Gipo3 · 11-10-2017 02:25PM

Whats the situation when changing from Sky broadband and phone to Eir FTTH. I'm assuming I dont have to cancel Sky, that it will be taken care of as before?

Gipo3 · 11-10-2017 02:29PM

Just seen this on Sky T&C's:
Outside of your Minimum Term, you can also cancel your subscription by either transferring your
Service(s) to an alternative service provider or giving us 31 days’ notice at any time (depending on
what type of service you are moving to (if any)).

Jpmarn · 11-10-2017 02:37PM

My brother got ftth installed yesterday. The technician was a younger man from Nenagh. Co Tipperary. His Fibre line was flown from the pole with the splice approximately 25m to his pole on the perimeter of his property. The line was ducted alongside the existing copper to the inside of the back door into the utility room. The Fibre was wired upstairs directly above to his office room. The cable was terminated and the new Eir F2000 router was installed in place of his old dsl one. There is a generous amount of Fibre in his house. I thought the Fibre would be terminated in the utility with an Ethernet cable wired up to the office room directly above.

Jpmarn · 11-10-2017 02:56PM

Since the Fibre line went live last week on my road there has been five houses connected to it as of last night. My brother was installed yesterday morning and a house near where the main Fibre cables terminates got connected. I know there is at least one other household awaiting installation with another on the point of ordering. The local national school has yet to be connected. At the moment there is some sort of a WiMAX antenna facing south west on the school building. I don't know who is the service provider. At the moment there should be 7 connections on my road out of possible 24 premises by the end of the week.

I noticed the uptake is poor around the Pallasgreen area ATM particularly Old Pallas and on the road to herberstown. Is it not live in Pallasgreen village as Blogin explained in his last post. I suppose the take probably range from poor in some areas to fairly good in other.
Has Inch St. Lawernce exchange leapfrogged Pallsgreen in the Fibre stakes in Co. Limerick?

Blogin · 11-10-2017 03:07PM

Jpmarn wrote: »

Since the Fibre line went live last week on my road there has been five houses connected to it as of last night. My brother was installed yesterday morning and a house near where the main Fibre cables terminates got connected. I know there is at least one other household awaiting installation with another on the point of ordering. The local national school has yet to be connected. At the moment there is some sort of a WiMAX antenna facing south west on the school building. I don't know who is the service provider. At the moment there should be 7 connections on my road out of possible 24 premises by the end of the week.

I noticed the uptake is poor around the Pallasgreen area ATM particularly Old Pallas and on the road to herberstown. Is it not live in Pallasgreen village as Blogin explained in his last post. I suppose the take probably range from poor in some areas to fairly good in other.
Has Inch St. Lawernce exchange leapfrogged Pallsgreen in the Fibre stakes in Co. Limerick?

It's definitely live in Pallasgreen village. I've seen them installing.

The pallasgreen exchange went live may 3rd. My road (still in the village) has only gone live and taking orders on the web site since October 4th. But as of this morning, it's not really live on my road and those black boxes are obviously Christmas decorations.

The Cush · 11-10-2017 03:07PM

Jpmarn wrote: »

I thought the Fibre would be terminated in the utility with an Ethernet cable wired up to the office room directly above.

Depends on how flexible the installer is.

oscarBravo · 11-10-2017 03:34PM

Jpmarn wrote: »

The local national school has yet to be connected. At the moment there is some sort of a WiMAX antenna facing south west on the school building. I don't know who is the service provider.

It may be a while before it moves to fibre. Primary school broadband is awarded to service providers who bid for lots of schools under the terms of a framework agreement. Even if the existing provider can also provide FTTH (and there are not many wireless providers who also provide FTTH), there's no real incentive to upgrade it before it comes to the end of its contract term.

Pangea · 11-10-2017 03:40PM

I think this was discussed before, but anyone know if the Bundle prices on the Eir site include the €2 discount for Direct Debit?

rob808 · 11-10-2017 03:53PM

Knn are very lazy guys dont want do any hard work at all very disappointed with them as a company.

ED E · 11-10-2017 03:59PM

rob808 wrote: »

Knn are very lazy guys dont want do any hard work at all very disappointed with them as a company.

Kentucky Fried Networks.

Its a gamble, some of them are ex teclo and great. Some were digging footpaths last week and somebody handed them a JDSU and said "go".

Blogin · 11-10-2017 04:03PM

Jpmarn wrote: »

Since the Fibre line went live last week on my road there has been five houses connected to it as of last night. My brother was installed yesterday morning and a house near where the main Fibre cables terminates got connected. I know there is at least one other household awaiting installation with another on the point of ordering. The local national school has yet to be connected. At the moment there is some sort of a WiMAX antenna facing south west on the school building. I don't know who is the service provider. At the moment there should be 7 connections on my road out of possible 24 premises by the end of the week.

I noticed the uptake is poor around the Pallasgreen area ATM particularly Old Pallas and on the road to herberstown. Is it not live in Pallasgreen village as Blogin explained in his last post. I suppose the take probably range from poor in some areas to fairly good in other.
Has Inch St. Lawernce exchange leapfrogged Pallsgreen in the Fibre stakes in Co. Limerick?

rob808 wrote: »

Knn are very lazy guys dont want do any hard work at all very disappointed with them as a company.

I was called yesterday to confirm my install for today and then they said the installer is very busy tomorrow and would I like to postpone. I said no. This morning the splice box isn't live. I can't help wondering if he was just looking for any reason to cancel some jobs.

Marlow · 11-10-2017 04:33PM

raydator wrote: »

I only get these speeds randomly.

When I check at peak times 8-11pm it's as low as 60-90mb.

Try to different speedtest servers. A lot of them only have a GigE interface on the server. If multiple people are doing speedtest, you can't archieve gigabit speeds.

Never just test to one.

/M

Jpmarn · 11-10-2017 06:18PM

There is now 6 houses with ftth on my road including mine and my brother. Couple of connections between Caherconlish and Beary's Cross and I believe at least one if not both of the pubs in Boher is connected. Saw a KN van there with the ladder going up a pole with splice box.

Marlow · 11-10-2017 06:49PM

ED E wrote: »

Kentucky Fried Networks.

Its a gamble, some of them are ex teclo and great. Some were digging footpaths last week and somebody handed them a JDSU and said "go".

Nah .. KN stands for "know nothing".

/M

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