National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

That's good to know.

I feared waiting until 2026 then being told I'd get 50 Meg or something.

If you look up Pure NBI customers, you'll be able to tell.

Seen few Pure NBI SpeedTest results here , they all marked as Eir .

All SIRO Pure customers marked as Enet.

Open FTTH Eir Pure SpeedTest results Eirs or BTIreland

You see , Pure only the resale agency, they have zero infrastructure on its own. ( no gateways/DNS servers etc) Easy enough to trace backhaul then.

NBI are using zero openeir fibre in their network as backhaul or anything else. It is a brand new network constructed with their own fibre from end to end. Even when they eventually use openeir exchange buildings to house equipment they still will not be using eir fibre.

This proves nothing about NBI's network. The traffic (carried on NBI fibre) is handed over to Pure in a regional or national PoH and it is up to them then what they do with it. The backhaul between eir exchanges is also irrelevant.

Making judgements on provider's backhaul arrangements based on inherently variable Speedtest results is not very wise or scientific.

NBI and openeir networks are entirely separate. The concept of eir exchanges or exchange areas has no meaning in the NBI network design. NBI have 227 deployment areas that could be compared with eir exchange areas, only much larger. Traffic from these 227 areas will travel on NBI fibre to the 33 PoH. eir fibre cabling has no part in it.

The NBI network has not impacted on your speeds. That would be like saying SIRO or Virgin has affected your speeds. A few Speedtests here, where you can't know the conditions or equipment used doesn't prove anything.

Perhaps look into the NBI network and you might come to some understanding of how it is built and works.

Changes, good (green) and bad (orange) since March 1st . Dromore West seems to be a big winner. All data from NBI map.

Hi

Quick question regarding installation / connection. When companies are advertising it as pre-order with a view to installation within 2 months after ordering ... how accurate is this timeframe? Like do I add another 6 months onto this to get through the sales pitch for realistic expectations?

Seems to vary from DA to DA but in my case pre-order was December, ready to connect was mid-March and we were setup by the end of March.

Has anyone had any issues getting their modem/router from Digiweb? I'm due for install on Wednesday morning and I'm having difficulty with Digiweb sending out the Fritzbox. They're telling me the units are sent from Dublin once NBI get notification of a successful install but I've had a kn engineer here already who did a pre-install survey and was happy for it all to proceed on 18th.

Yeah I found that the website doesn't necessarily reflect what the phone agents see, so maybe give your preferred supplier a call and see if it shows up for order on their side.

It is frustrating but you're nearly there now - and it will be worth the wait, as I said before the end product is fantastic.