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Eir rural FTTH thread II

Marlow

fritzelly wrote: »

This confuses me, why continue with old tech and not continue with upgrading everyone to fibre to the home?

Because they don't want to invalidate their copper infrastructure. And well, it does indeed cut down on civils, cable replacement, investment in dense populated areas.

A lot of those areas would also have underground cabling. Often with blocked ducts etc. Thats even more costly.

Running fiber overhead on poles is comparable cheap and a lot of that stuff probably needed a refresh anyhow.

Just look at the figures along: 1.7M VDSL lines, 300k FTTH. If you had to roll out FTTH for all 2M homes (cable, DP, civils), it would be a whole different ballpark.

/M

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fabo1thecross

In the network he said. When I have a wired connection from laptop to router should the speed on Speedtest be steady say over a few tests.

babi-hrse

fabo1thecross wrote: »

Thank you. Some difference in fairness worth the wait. Turned out the delay was two fibers spliced incorrectly. Mixed up is what the guy said.

Two fibres spliced incorrectly?
A bad splice on both ends or network splices in wrong place?

fabo1thecross

Thank you. Some difference in fairness worth the wait. Turned out the delay was two fibers spliced incorrectly. Mixed up is what the guy said.

babi-hrse

fabo1thecross wrote: »

How do I change nat settings on this gigabox router. Thanks.

Wouldn't be too sure but there's an app for the Vodafone gigabox sh3000
On play store or iTunes Vodafone app
Can change ssid passwords and lock out users or see who's at home by devices on network. Diagnostics and all that good stuff.
You'll probably find it in there if you can change it.

fabo1thecross

How do I change nat settings on this gigabox router. Thanks.

fabo1thecross

Great job. He had a 60mt cobra and needed more. He rang a fella and tipped of for a half hour and returned with a 150mt. Topping fella he was. Got the 150 package and it’s around the 140 mark wired. About 100 on the iPad Wi-Fi and 50 on the xcover4 phone. Happy out.

babi-hrse

fabo1thecross wrote: »

Kn on site and ducked is clear. Hopefully light at the dp.

How did ya get on?

fabo1thecross

Kn on site and ducked is clear. Hopefully light at the dp.

fabo1thecross

Install due for the morning. Fingers cross.

Gonzo

limnam wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked many times before.

Does anyone know roughly from when the fiber passes the house how long after that work is complete before you can order?

It was about 4 months for me.

cnocbui

limnam wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked many times before.

Does anyone know roughly from when the fiber passes the house how long after that work is complete before you can order?

Four months for me and two months for someone else - two pages back in the thread.

limnam

Sorry if this has been asked many times before.

Does anyone know roughly from when the fiber passes the house how long after that work is complete before you can order?

babi-hrse

Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »

How are installers informed about changes in procedure such as this? Are there training days or is it something like a mass email and hope that everyone understands the implications of the changes?

Email and to contact line manager if unsure of procedures.

guyinkk

Had KN out here for an install on Feb 11th. Failed with no light at DP. I now have cable coming from the DP opposite my house coming across my garden, left unattached in a spool at the side of my house.

Waiting impatiently for OE to fix the issue.

My service provider seems to have no influence on how quickly this happens. First world problem, I know, however the lack of information that flows between OE and the service provider in a situation like this seems odd to me. I've been told there's no information on the OE ticket and they'll be in touch as soon as they know anything. Wait wait wait.

tsue921i8wljb3

babi-hrse wrote: »

On ftth no light installs.
The order is to be put down as a no light ftth install it does not go through portal and does not go back to provider.
The tech closes it off then the office audit it and contact the build crew to fix network. When the build crew fix it they report to the office that it's completed then the office activates the ont and bish bash bosh up and running order then goes to provider as complete.
So either the tech made a mistake and forgot to put it down as a no light ftth and passed it doing a full line check pass which knocked the keen cyclist services off and created an fault or his copper services were to end on that day.
I suspect it's the former.
Be curious to know if this happens to anyone else

How are installers informed about changes in procedure such as this? Are there training days or is it something like a mass email and hope that everyone understands the implications of the changes?

babi-hrse

On ftth no light installs.
The order is to be put down as a no light ftth install it does not go through portal and does not go back to provider.
The tech closes it off then the office audit it and contact the build crew to fix network. When the build crew fix it they report to the office that it's completed then the office activates the ont and bish bash bosh up and running order then goes to provider as complete.
So either the tech made a mistake and forgot to put it down as a no light ftth and passed it doing a full line check pass which knocked the keen cyclist services off and created an fault or his copper services were to end on that day.
I suspect it's the former.
Be curious to know if this happens to anyone else

tcawley29

brianbruff wrote: »

Did it have any impact?

Completely forgot about it.
Using a wireless connection but I did see an 8mb increase in download speed without teams running

brianbruff

tcawley29 wrote: »

Interesting. I have this on a mac too so I must verify this when I get home and see if it has the same effect.

Did it have any impact?

joe_99

user1842 wrote: »

Looks like Open Eir is slowing down:

https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/commercial-investment/Pages/Rural-Deployment-Progress.aspx

Only 5.4% passed in Q4 2018. They will have to have a bumper Q1 2019 to meet their obligations. You cannot always blame the weather.

Lets see how strong this commitment agreement actually is, with regard to delays.

Their Q1 performance has not been good.

tcawley29

brianbruff wrote: »

Thought this was worth sharing..
I rebuilt my machine last night
all good for while this morning then bang,,, back down to sub 500Mbps

I had less applications installed so quickly found the offender...

!Microsoft Teams!

I don't know how or why this electron app can have such a drastic effect, but as soon as I start it connection deteriorates.
I stop it and speeds are back up in the 940-950 mbps range!

Interesting. I have this on a mac too so I must verify this when I get home and see if it has the same effect.

turbbo

user1842 wrote: »

Looks like Open Eir is slowing down:

https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/commercial-investment/Pages/Rural-Deployment-Progress.aspx

Only 5.4% passed in Q4 2018. They will have to have a bumper Q1 2019 to meet their obligations. You cannot always blame the weather.

Lets see how strong this commitment agreement actually is, with regard to delays.

If anything the weather has been even worse this quarter!

brianbruff

Marlow wrote: »

Check if SmartBytes is installed and get rid of of that. Be aware, that it gets re-installed on the next Dell update.

/M

Thought this was worth sharing..
I rebuilt my machine last night
all good for while this morning then bang,,, back down to sub 500Mbps

I had less applications installed so quickly found the offender...

!Microsoft Teams!

I don't know how or why this electron app can have such a drastic effect, but as soon as I start it connection deteriorates.
I stop it and speeds are back up in the 940-950 mbps range!

user1842

Looks like Open Eir is slowing down:

https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/commercial-investment/Pages/Rural-Deployment-Progress.aspx

Only 5.4% passed in Q4 2018. They will have to have a bumper Q1 2019 to meet their obligations. You cannot always blame the weather.

Lets see how strong this commitment agreement actually is, with regard to delays.

babi-hrse

AirBiscuit wrote: »

Starting to lose hope of an installation in any reasonable time, 2 weeks since the KN fella was out (was told 2-3 weeks roughly in this thread for a repeat call out so I'm probably quite early with my dread). The prospect of it taking months when it's already so tantalisingly physically close is terrible. The difference it has made to the pub alone is huge, video calling over 4G here has a latency of about 3-4 seconds but over fibre it's under half a second.

What was it failed for. Usually it can come out much sooner.

AirBiscuit

Starting to lose hope of an installation in any reasonable time, 2 weeks since the KN fella was out (was told 2-3 weeks roughly in this thread for a repeat call out so I'm probably quite early with my dread). The prospect of it taking months when it's already so tantalisingly physically close is terrible. The difference it has made to the pub alone is huge, video calling over 4G here has a latency of about 3-4 seconds but over fibre it's under half a second.

tsue921i8wljb3

tototoe wrote: »

Considering what has been rolled out by openeir and Siro, take up is pretty low really.

Take-up is probably sub 30% overall but it is still very much an emerging market. It has only been two years that there has been somewhat widespread availability.

tototoe

Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »

90642 FTTH connections at the end of Q4 2018 according to the latest Comreg Key Quarterly Data. Obviously this is split between all the operators, open eir and SIRO being the largest. As with Q3 it seems the SIRO promotion is leading to increased take up.

https://www.comreg.ie/publication/quarterly-key-data-report-q4-2018/

We've also overtaken Croatia and Germany in the latest FTTH Council rankings!

Considering what has been rolled out by openeir and Siro, take up is pretty low really.

tuxy

If you're using a mail client then you will need to use a different outgoing mail server, correct?
I think that's the only issue some people have when switching.

fritzelly

The email has been seperate since conception, nothing to do with any other services, friend has had one for 20 odd years and hasn't used eir for anything else in at least 10 years.

pg17

Peppa Cig wrote: »

Suck it up and change providers now before your disappointed again.

Can anybody tell me eir's policy/practice about eircom.net email addresses when an eir customer changes to a different broadband supplier?

I am put off changing supplier because of the hassle that would be involved in changing over to new e-mail addresses on a new server. If I change from eir, can I keep my eircom.net addresses permanently or does eir close the account at some stage?