National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

About 10/11 weeks since it went to pre order, (it went to pre order two weeks before that but change to a newer date and they went back to pre order but so don't count it,) hopefully not too far away now

Lots of surveying around Thomastown in Kilkenny the last couple of weeks.

Good to see it.

Hard see how little progress/info is being made still for those of us stuck in "premises pending survey".

A local County Councillor slated the NBI on Facebook recently. Said they are giving no information, refusing to give any timelines etc. Its lead to a majority of Councillors all promoting Imagine.

Sure enough, there are Imagine vans EVERYWHERE in North Galway at the moment. My home house in Mayo also has Imagine vans everywhere. The sales guy told a relative there is zero chance of Fibre ever coming to the area. It almost feels like that these days.

They seem to be really going after the areas NBI have left until 2027.

fantastic, thanks for that

I just used the eircode checker to see that im in the "planned intervention area" with no date given for survey. What does that actually mean? Is it years away?

Same here ( Tallow deployment area), no sign of anything happening.

Keep seeing vans around my way, It seems like just passing through as still pending survey 😢

Stick a Tx/Rx on both your roofs. Something like a Ubiquiti nanostation.

Not necessarily, the website is notoriously slow to update.

That said don't get too excited, I was due fiber in Aug, then it moved to Oct, now its due in Jan, I'm not holding my breath.

This thread seems to have dried up a lot since that week of downtime. This place used to be a great place for updates on the progress of the rollout. Such a pity the Boards issues seem to have killed the discussion.

Anyway, I received an NBI leaflet through my door today telling me “High speed broadband is on the way”.

Is this something that has been sent out to everyone, or is it a good sign that we may have Fibre soon?

I’m in the Portlaoise DA and connection estimate is Feb-Apr 2022, but I haven’t heard or any work starting in this DA yet, and we’re still in “Survey Underway”, so I’m fairly skeptical of that timeframe to be honest.

😂 fantastic. In that case I guess I should expect a delay sooner rather than later.

Not sure if its boards and the issues plus poor functionality or there simply looks to be little to no new info about NBI at all these days.

Even their "we are now surveying in X townlands" has gone very quiet. I've been keeping an eye on their rollout page and no new areas have been added to their "survey planned" section in months, bar one which was delayed and moved into it.

The Twitter account is just "Terry and Susan are here to answer questions".

We are still premises pending survey, [north Galway] with zero new info or survey timeframe. Id kill for even an estimated year time frame.

This accelerating the rollout thing also gone completely dead too. Im expecting to hear that the program will take longer than the initial 7 year time frame to be honest.

If I had a year ETA, then I'd be able to consider Starlink more seriously at this point.

The closest NBI connection dates are 2023 so you'd be safe enough getting Starlink and be out of a contract by the time fibre is available to you.

As far as I know, Starlink is contract free but not 100%. Its mainly the fact I dont want to pay 500 euro equipment charge + find/pay someone to install the dish on the roof and unnecessary drilling on the house. Also there are still a couple of months wait time for it to be delivered for some.

Speeds have been very impressive with Starlink in Ireland so far, way better than I imagined, but I do have concerns over reported long outages. Plus there is that 100 euro a month charge. I should know more by September if working from home for work is going to be expected going forward too.

There seems to be a big draw for digiweb with the posts here. I'm signed up for pre-order with them too but wondering what's the driver considering their price per month over 2 or 3 years is pricier compared to other operators. Is it their customer service, the fritzbox or other operators are considered a poorer option?