Gwynston wrote: » What model number of Fritz!box is the best value/performance option to get better WiFi? Looking around, some are quite expensive, but I think I read that the one supplied by other FTTH providers is closer to €100, but I'm not sure the model number.
shigllgetcha wrote: » Couldnt you just buy a router and use the F2000 just as a bridge?
KeRbDoG wrote: » Couldn't you just use any router (with wifi or not) which has an ethernet (gigabit ideally) WAN port with a FTTH service or am I missing something the F2000 does that special?
Marlow wrote: » - Needs to bit Gbit/s ...because all FTTH is more than 100 Mbit/s. - Needs to support 802.1q on the WAN port (VLAN), because the PPPoE session on both OpenEIR FTTC, FTTH and SIRO FTTH gets established on Vlan 10 (opposed to untagged traffic). Otherwise, yes, you can replace it with anything above, that can deal with those 2 requirements. /M
sean72 wrote: » Well the news just gets worse in my FTTH/C story. A neighbour who is closer to the cabinet than me (200m versus my 450m) tells me shes getting 27mb/s. I thought that 30mb/s was the minimum to even be part of this rollout.
The Cush wrote: » 200m from the cabinet would be closer to 100 Mbps, close to the cabinet but connected to the exchange most likely. FTTC/VDSL (up to 100 Mbps) speed vs. copper line distance
sean72 wrote: » However, I thought at a bare minimum it had to be 30mb? We must have the worst copper in Ireland ---
sean72 wrote: » Yeah I have seen this before but then once the cabinet went active and you enter phone numbers from my local area into the eir line checker, it says speeds up 50m. So that was the first alarm bell... but for whatever reason poor copper, connections etc the speed just gets lower and lower. However, I thought at a bare minimum it had to be 30mb? We must have the worst copper in Ireland ---
sean72 wrote: » Well the news just gets worse in my FTTH/C story. A neighbour who is closer to the cabinet than me (200m versus my 450m) tells me shes getting 27mb/s. I thought that 30mb/s was the minimum to even be part of this rollout. So the trundle downhill from my 1000mb excitement, to 100mb, to up to 50mb, has now reached a new 'low' literally. My install is next week
sean72 wrote: » I didn’t ask my neighbour if they gotten the Eir TV box as part of her package. I think she did mention she was interested in this before though. If she has Eir TV don’t they dedicate some bandwidth to these boxes?
Ultimanemo wrote: » And when you are 4200 metres away from the exchange?
ED E wrote: » ADSL2+ instead. 24Mb at 0m, 0.5Mb at 5km, 2 or 3 at 4km.
The Cush wrote: » My brother is on ADSL2+, line length 4.4+ kms, modem syncs at just over 7 Mbps, consistent 5-6 Mbps since the exchange went NGA.
ED E wrote: » There's something bringing that cab down. The minimum PSD/freq settings give you a 70Mb service which close premises should make. Her like is likely a 34Mb line set to 28Mb for stability for TV, a requirement. When each STB is on it allocates 4-8Mb for itself so you take that away from the stable profile. That means a 50Mb line can become 40Mb -4, -4 ,-4 giving a final 28Mb for internet use in the most extreme cases. ADSL2+ instead. 24Mb at 0m, 0.5Mb at 5km, 2 or 3 at 4km.
ED E wrote: » It varies a lot at those ranges. Parts of north Galway with weird routing but no homes at all syncing at 8.2km! But its not normal so I give conservative estimates. Especially when the copper network needs TLC.
sean72 wrote: » Thanks a million for the detailed explanation. Can I ask one final question. As I did not order Eir TV I imagine that I can get higher speed as I won’t have bandwidth set aside.
The Cush wrote: » Just a quick question on line distance measurement, an open eir technician at our house carrying out a line repair last year measured the line distance at 4483m with a handheld meter, how accurate is such a measurement and can this vary with line noise, bad connections etc.?
ED E wrote: » The numbers we look at on here are signal based (attenuation, SNRM, etc) and can be way out of whack but depending on what kit he's using he's doing POTS testing with the MTAU board in the exchange. That tests line capacitance (don't ask me to explain exactly what that is, thats for the electrical engineers) but its on the lower level of voltage/resistance over the loop. So if you put a DSL filter in the wrong place you'll get 63.5dB attenuation as it kills the signal but the capacitance will still show the correct length (say 1km instead of 5+). Those test are really on fooled by breaks (value will be too low) or bad joints where it may read a little high. They're also based on entirely uniform cabling which in a network with 30yo cabling and new stuff isnt 100% accurate but I'd call it so close as it doesnt matter. Update: Capacitance is measured on both legs too so the tech can tell if its nicked say half way down one leg if he's awake.
KeRbDoG wrote: » Many devices out there that can replace the F2000 completely so
ED E wrote: » ^ Very true, of late we've had two posters buy expensive higher end hardware and had problems with just that.
cnocbui wrote: » We are down for spring 2017. I am not aware that even ground works have ever been done, so spring 2018 is probably more like it going by that timeline. All a bit weird as poles were replaced many months ago and nothing since.
turbbo wrote: » My area down for Winter 2018 - nothing has been done not even a slanty pole replaced. Does that mean 2019? The rollout seems to be very much behind as Navi mentioned earlier.
ads20101 wrote: » Hi chaps /chapesses in the know... My house is down for Autumn / Winter 17 ftth. The KN lads started digging holes and popping the lovely fibre through from last Thursday. They have been working over the w/e and they are currently digging a hole only a few yards from my house. So, what I am asking is, from your experience, how long does it take from the hole digging bit to allowing orders to be processed? Ta
The high horse brigade wrote: » Just becase a device has a gigabit Wan port doesn't mean it can NAT at gigabit speeds
KeRbDoG wrote: » Would be great to see the devices which had problems listed like the FTTC alt. devices are, a quick look at my current device running (Asus RT-AC3200) tomato with a gig WAN port and supports 802.1q/VLAN setting on that port. Fingers crossed
