National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Whereabouts are you?

One thing to note. There is no change to Eir's capital expenditure budget. If there was they would have made a song and dance about it in the announcement. So will they shift resources from the urban rollout to start some of these 200k premises. I doubt it as there is a compelling business case for the urban rollout. VM in particular is vunerable. This is more about claiming these premises now to deter NBI eventually looking for them to be added. So, there will probably be at least a 4 year wait for those premises.

This OpenEir announcment has left me a tad confused. I am on the edge of a small town and currently can only get ~15Mb FTTC. I am in the IA for the NBI rollout and currently have a date on the NBI website for a connection from July 2022 - Dec 2022.

Checking the new OpenEir map I'm in the blue area which according to them is due to be upgraded by OpenEir to FTTH.

Which one will have priority?🤔 I'm now concerned it'll be handed over to OpenEir and the connection could be delayed for goodness knows how long.

Eir are encroaching on NBI areas, but it seems like if you are penned in for NBI already and Eir comes along with their own IFN rollout then you will have two separate fibre networks available to you

My own example is my area is set for NBI go live next year, yesterday they blew in NBI fibre through ducting on my road, but I've had Eir IFN FTTH 1gbit installed 2 months ago as Eir decided to upgrade my area recently

Agreed, and can all the posts be removed from this thread and put into the new one please?

I see a new post, open the thread and realise it's nothing to do with NBI implementation.

Huh, just looked at the Intervention map to see were we making any progress - it had been suggested we would have fibre broadband during 2022 but I see this has now been moved on to 2023 Jan to December.

As a complete aside, the map is very up to date and great quality, I could identify it as being filmed in about April 2021, going on what was around the house and the amount of leaf on the trees.

This is mad stuff. Wouldnt the two and government be far better served coming to some form of agreement to speed up rollout rather than duplicating work. Whats the benefit in it for either NBI or Open Eir.

With this new Eir announcement its also looking like my area will be part of the FTTH plan. The OpenEir site now says "you can get speeds of up to 100Mb and you are also included in our plans for FTTH rollout"

Will be crazy seeing our estate possiby be worked on twice for FTTH meanwhile other areas are stuck waiting.

I wonder what timeframe OpenEir rollout is vs the NBI?

Our house has changed on NBI.ie to “ready for service”. Long time coming.

Unfortunately we’re leaving the country this week for a few weeks so haven’t got an install date until September!

We are scheduled for install Wednesday morning in Maree, I presume we will have the same people installing it if so hopefully we don’t keep ye waiting too long😂

Fibre crew appeared on our road today just outside Tipp Town to start stringing it up. Current estimate for rollout is Nov-Dec 21, so hoping the pre-order will be available sooner rather than later.

Must be the same crowd so since i'm the other side of Oranmore. The installation time slot is 4 hours long, didn't realise it would take them so long to install fiber in the house. It's a great excuse to miss all of my Wednesday meetings at work 😁

Great to see some more speedtest results 😀

Connection all day by KN, took a while due to some issues with the installers equipment and also due to some Digiweb settings on the router but all working now! Some speed test results from before and after

Post-install speeds:

The difference is incredible and really tidy job by the installer. The ONT is far bigger than the Eir and SIRO ones but still manages to look much simpler where it's installed.

looks like they're on the 500 Mbps package, I'm on the 500 Mbps with Digiweb and the upload speed is similar at just over 50 Mbps. My neighbour is on the 1gb package and his uploads are over 100 Mbps.

At the risk of dragging this thread off-topic (which I have complained about myself in the recent past), I know someone who just got SIRO ftth with Digiweb in Letterkenny and even after an engineer visit from SIRO and multiple bouts of troubleshooting with Digiweb tech support, they are still only getting max 650 on phone via wifi and even less with a laptop wired direct to the router (!!). That's on a 1gbps package. The speeds are all over the shop too, not consistent at all. Sometimes down to 200 and other times up to 500. Nowhere near the 1gbps.