National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

micksey1969 wrote: »

My house is not in the intervention area, after months of emails to NBI they said that my house will now be included, so i checked the NBI site with my Eircode today and its still not included. I emailed NBI and the reply i got was the maps will be updated by the end of this month and my house should be in amber.

Does this work?

We are in a large estate in Skerries. All the one off houses on the coast in front of us (some literally 10 metres from our estate) are marked for intervention whereas all us peasants in the estate behind aren’t. We get to keep on godawful copper while our tax money subsidises fibre for them?

quad_red wrote: »

Does this work?

We are in a large estate in Skerries. All the one off houses on the coast in front of us (some literally 10 metres from our estate) are marked for intervention whereas all us peasants in the estate behind aren’t. We get to keep on godawful copper while our tax money subsidises fibre for them?

First put your eircode into this https://www.airwire.ie/index.php/avail/main/

If you can get Part Fibre (Fibre to the cabinet aka VDSL) and your speeds are < 30Mb you wont be included. Or if for some reason you are eligible for FTTH then you are already sorted.

Keep in mind the majority of us in here experience speeds of 1Mb - 12Mb. Those just on the threshold of ~28Mb/30Mb seem to get added when they contact.

Go to www.nbi.ie and put your eircode in there.

If it comes up as "Not in Intervention Area" then click the find out more button. You'll see the following paragraph on what you need to do.

Please contact us at Broadband@decc.gov.ie to let us know if you cannot get high speed broadband from the providers in your area. It would be helpful if you could advise the department of any operators you may have contacted

They might not reply straight away but its likely an oversight if you cant get anything above 30Mb.

I contacted the NBI with my eircode to get an approximate time frame of when fibre broadband will be available in my (very rural) area where connectivity is basically non-existant.

They said it's in progress ATM and should be up and running by Jan - March 2022, just wondering how accurate are these predictions?

Are they going ahead to schedule?

I'm not sure if im looking in the right places but I found the area I'm included in: https://nbi.ie/hollyfort-townlands/

Is there any indication on any nbi info about this? I've been looking but can't see.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Whereabouts in rochestown?

They were laying it at the side of the road by the water tower in Rathanker.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I'm by the college and still have water last time i checked, strange

I just passed by again but now there’s another burst pipe with water flying up into the air on the bad bend before Judge’s boreen on the college side. Also piles of earth all over one side of the road by the water tower, hopefully we’ll have the water back tonight at some stage but looks like they’ll be kept busy!

GavoTrav wrote: »

I'm not sure if im looking in the right places but I found the area I'm included in: https://nbi.ie/hollyfort-townlands/

Is there any indication on any nbi info about this? I've been looking but can't see.

No mention of that OLT here https://nbi.ie/rollout-plan/ and if you pop in your eircode I assume it says "Premises Pending Survey" ?

If so and its just me assuming, you are likely to be ~2024 at the earliest considering they have already listed townlands up to December 2023.

Actual information for those still in Premises Pending Survey is non existent so keep an eye on here is probably your best bet.

The NBI guys were working on the pole outside my house today. I'm not sure exactly what they were doing but it looks like they cleared out the area around the duct and left some cable on the pole. We are down to be connected between July and September but the engineers said it should be 6 to 8 weeks. I can see them gradually working their way out from town with the fibre coming in our direction.

xxyyzz wrote: »

The NBI guys were working on the pole outside my house today. I'm not sure exactly what they were doing but it looks like they cleared out the area around the duct and left some cable on the pole. We are down to be connected between July and September but the engineers said it should be 6 to 8 weeks. I can see them gradually working their way out from town with the fibre coming in our direction.

There is an underground section between that pole and the next one. The coil of cable goes through the underground duct and will join with the overhead cable. It is the duct for the fibre to run through. 6-8 weeks is a bit ambitious when I look back to when we were at that stage. We are about 2 months ahead of you with maybe another two months before we are ready to connect.

Question for folks here - with NBI's access to eircom's pole infrastructure, in case of damage (broken line etc), who will carry out repairs? Will multiple teams have to coordinate and will it end up taking longer to get fixes carried out?

Asking as we've seen lines being cut (both accidentally & otherwise) in our area over the past 12-18 months. Eircom are usually quite fast so was wondering how it would change when multiple providers are using the same poles.

cregmon wrote: »

Question for folks here - with NBI's access to eircom's pole infrastructure, in case of damage (broken line etc), who will carry out repairs? Will multiple teams have to coordinate and will it end up taking longer to get fixes carried out?

Asking as we've seen lines being cut (both accidentally & otherwise) in our area over the past 12-18 months. Eircom are usually quite fast so was wondering how it would change when multiple providers are using the same poles.

OpenEir will still be responsible for making things safe. Once that's done assuming two spans were cut both sides would send out their cabling teams as they see fit. I doubt either side will end up splicing for the other.

quad_red wrote: »

Does this work?

We are in a large estate in Skerries. All the one off houses on the coast in front of us (some literally 10 metres from our estate) are marked for intervention whereas all us peasants in the estate behind aren’t. We get to keep on godawful copper while our tax money subsidises fibre for them?

Do they not pay taxes too though ? ....

https://www.clareecho.ie/east-clare-to-benefit-first-from-national-broadband-plan/

NBI “are very close” commencing the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan (NBP), Head of Information Systems Broadband and Digital with Clare County Council, Urban McMahon stated. Details on the first locations are expected to be known in the coming days but are tipped to all be in East Clare.

An immediate start is proposed once the townlands are known for East Clare, he stated. “Limited success” has been noted with expanding individual cases just outside broadband networks.

My house has changed and been brought forward again. We went from Dec 20-Feb 21 to Dec 21-May 22 and then to Nov 21-Feb 22 and now to March 21-June 21. I’ve also just gotten Eir 4G broadband for the year as I thought we’d be waiting ages. I don’t trust the dates at all as they’ve changed four times since November. I’ll be happy if we do get fibre in the new time frame but I’ve been in contact with NBI so many times in the past few weeks trying to get a straight answer out of them as to what deployment area we were in or had been moved to and why the dates keep changing I was just told that the map was the best indicator of a timeframe and now I’m stuck in a contract with Eir for a year!

Agent Avenger wrote: »

My house has changed and been brought forward again. We went from Dec 20-Feb 21 to Dec 21-May 22 and then to Nov 21-Feb 22 and now to March 21-June 21. I’ve also just gotten Eir 4G broadband for the year as I thought we’d be waiting ages. I don’t trust the dates at all as they’ve changed four times since November. I’ll be happy if we do get fibre in the new time frame but I’ve been in contact with NBI so many times in the past few weeks trying to get a straight answer out of them as to what deployment area we were in or had been moved to and why the dates keep changing I was just told that the map was the best indicator of a timeframe and now I’m stuck in a contract with Eir for a year!

Id take that off your hands in a heart beat. I'd even suffer buying out the eir contract if I had those sort of time scales available. But all things considered our location appears to be in the very last set of installations which judging on progress etc will most likely be into the 2024 time scales.

So I do smile when I see folks agonising over a few months.