Shyboy wrote: » Hi All, I have had FTTH for almost a year now, and apart from a few niggles at the beginning, all has been great. My brother a few houses away finally got around to ordering FTTH recently and KN turned up today to do the install. My brother bought the house a few years ago and the previous owner did have a landline so all the cabling is still there. The problem is that the KN installer says that the pipe coming inside that they use to feed the fibre in through seems to be under the wooden floor. Part of the floor would have to be removed to expose the pipe needed. As it turns out, my brother is a carpenter so he can do this, if he knew which part of the floor contains this pipe? The KN guy says most likely it is just under the main phone socket in the hall, but says that is not 100% certain. So, my brother is worried that he will pull up lots of the floor and still not find it? He did not lay the floor himself, it was already there when he bought the house. Also, we do not know who built the house so cannot speak to the builder, etc. Is there any way of knowing which part of the floor this pipe might be under?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » Yeah, we never received any letter. Had two salespersons call though, one when we were already connected for a month! Also keep checking your Eircode here:https://www.eir.ie/broadband/1000mb-fibre/
oscarBravo wrote: » This may be a silly question, but they're not still trying to use the Vodafone VDSL router on their new eir FTTH connection, are they?
Gboyd wrote: » Hi all, I have perhaps a silly question to ask but would appreciate some guidance. I am following this thread closely as my house is on the rollout map in blue for ftth in the second half of this year. I can see from others that this timeline is not exactly reliable but I can live in hope. With the recent takeover I’m even less optimistic but we will see. My question is this; I am moving into a new build house and as such it doesn’t have a landline. I’ve read a lot about issues with the install with ducting and pulling cables through and following the copper etc etc If there’s never been a line is it a no go?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » It's not a no go at all. Has your builder installed ducting from your home to the road that could be used? If not and you don't wish to get ducting installed there is the option to bring the cable in overhead from the nearest pole to a gable on your home.
fritzelly wrote: » Pretty much every new estate has zero ducting in place anymore - if you are on the fibre rollout map then it's unlikely they will even lay a copper wire. If you were to order it now then you are likely looking at many many months down the line for an install Unless there is poling in place already not likely to happen
Gboyd wrote: » It is not a new build in an estate, it is a stand alone build. There are poles nearby, not sure if they’ll be of use. I’m not sure about the ducting, I will try to find out. By the sounds of it we are talking about lots of hassle :-(
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » If he or she are on the rollout map they are probably not in an estate. It's more likely to be a one off house in a rural area.
fritzelly wrote: » Not really true, depends how you classify an estate - i don't necessarily mean an 100 houses
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » I think it's fair to say that most houses in the 300000 plan are not in "estates" no matter how you want to describe them.
fritzelly wrote: » There are many estates (of some small number of houses) getting FTTH. I would clasify any build of a number of houses in one small area as an estate - but maybe I'm wrong to classify them as such
shigllgetcha wrote: » Expect zero from eir technicians and after the 6th time they come out youll be pleasantly surprised
Shyboy wrote: » I think that's quite harsh IMHO. I find most Eir techs to be helpful and quite knowledgeable in general. FTTH technology is still quite new, so some would not have too much experience with it as yet.
The Cush wrote: » We have seen posts here where certain properties weren't included in the initial 300k rollout plan but were later added, you might be in luck.
detective wrote: » Don’t know who I can hire to install overhead poles/lines though or they need planning.
The Cush wrote: » They install the poles but there may be a cost to you. .........
detective wrote: » Do you have to allow Eir do it? Are there private contractors to hire instead? I presume you just put up the poles and Eir will run the lines of fibre themselves at no cost.
detective wrote: » Trying to avoid ducting as I don’t want to dig into a recently tarmacadamed driveway
detective wrote: » Update. I lived in a house set back 100m from the road. I was excluded from FTTH as a result despite line passing my entrance. I have been informed that I must provide new ducting OR install poles for overhead cables prior to roll out in my area. I’m actually delighted with this. Don’t know who I can hire to install overhead poles/lines though or they need planning.
