erica74 wrote: » Sorry for all the posts, can't multi quote on the touch site. Yeah, there's a box on the pole and a big coil of black cable hanging beside it.
Marlow wrote: » If they can get hold of customers. If customers pick up their phone. If there is enough sales people in the area. There's always more customers than sales people. Otherwise they wouldn't make any money. /M
plodder wrote: » Have you seen the fibre splitter boxes on telephone poles near your house? They are small black boxes with a coil of black cable wrapped around. One of them needs to be in place before you can get FTTH installed. As for the date estimate, my own also says "second half of 2017" and it seems to be accurate.
erica74 wrote: » Well it's their product, I presumed they'd be trying to sell it to customers.
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » If the cabling is done as you say, you could have it sooner. eir may actually be preselling your area. Try inputting your Eircode here:https://www.eir.ie/broadband/1000mb-fibre/
Marlow wrote: » Why would you wait on somebody to contact you ? That only happens, if sales people knock on your door. You won't be contacted .. especially not by your provider, if you're still in contract. We're past the second half of 2017 and if that says between 30-1000 Mbit/s, then you can avail of either FTTC or FTTH. Just a matter of ringing a provider and letting them do a line test. /M
erica74 wrote: » Thanks a million! So it says we'll be getting between 30mb and 1000mb and it'll be live in the second half of 2017... Is that a fairytale? I'm guessing it won't be "live" as we've had no contact from Eir nor Digiweb about all the magical things they'll be offering. Also there's a little blue house on my property on the map, which means "planned". Realistically I'm guessing it'll be next year?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Enter your Eircode on the following page (Check 300K):http://fibrerollout.ie This will inform you of your coverage. The map is on:http://fibrerollout.ie/rollout-map/
erica74 wrote: » Could someone please post a link to the map referred to? I live in a rural area, however, I'm on the main N25 road so not in a hole somewhere. The Eir pole out on the road (which carries the telephone line to the side of our house) had some new wires put onto it about 6 - 9 months ago but nothing has happened and nobody has been in touch with any information. At present we are with Digiweb and are lucky to get 2mb on a good day if all our stars are aligned so any improvement on that would be amazing.
thehorse wrote: » Best to phone Eir
sean72 wrote: » Cheers .... Weirdly my phone number that is an Eir number but never ever showed any broadband availability ever now says I might be able to get speeds of up to 1000mb and asks me to enter my eircode. When I enter my eircode it just 'spins and spins' ... I wonder what that actual means. Phone number works but eircode freezes?
thehorse wrote: » Until the technicians sign off on it and notify Eir through their internal system that it’s ready, it won’t be available to you. The best way to get up to date info is to see if you can meet one of the kn or open air guys and ask them.
sean72 wrote: » OK so my the updated map says 1st of Nov (yesterday) for estimated completion. There have been sales people around but I scared one off. What do I do now to actually find out if the my area is actually live and sign up?
superloopy wrote: » Final end to my FTTH journey. Anybody that has followed my previous posts I’m just coming back to say I’ve switched to digiweb and I’m getting 10mbs more download speed on my 150mb download package. Now getting 155mb down on my 150mb down package. I was getting 144mb wireless down with Eir. And 146mb wired. Haven’t tried wired with digiweb yet. Digiweb is better, router is better, broadcasts the 5ghz further. And the digiweb call center are a great bunch of people. Not a single hang up.... Anyway, my advice. Order with Eir, cancel witin 14 days. Get your cancellation in writing. Get digiweb and never look back. I still don’t get the need to fully change the ONT to change provider and the KN crew that turned up thought it was a full new installation. Took an hour to sort out. They had the wrong DP number oddly. Worked in the end. Good luck everybody.
Johnboy1951 wrote: » I see my exchange has gone from first half 2018 to Autumn/Winter 2018 No wonder I see no work on poles or hedges etc.
I_HAVE_NO_NAME wrote: » Roll-out map has been updated as of 02/11/2017
mgbgt1978 wrote: » Lads, apologies if my searches didn't give me the answer to this..... I'm with Vodafone at present (rural area...quite happy with the deal, speeds, etc.). However my road was fibre cabled about 9 months ago. Just the underground ducting along the road, nothing to any houses yet. When I check my Eircode with Eir their site tells me that FTTH is available at my address. That's great, but AFAIK nobody on my road has actually been connected yet. I am in a fairly new re-signed contract with VF which expires in Feb 2019 (a fiver a month off retention-deal). I can cancel this contract now due to the VF price increase. My problem is that I'm not sure that VF will supply the Fibre to me as they seem to be only connecting SIRO customers. So, should I cancel the VF contract while I can if I want to get Fibre ? Can anyone confirm that VF are not connecting people to FTTH in rural areas even though EIR, Pure, etc are doing so as it becomes available ? Even if it means waiting another 6 months I'd prefer to have the option of going with a FTTH provider then, if VF are simply not going to connect me. Thanks, John.
