National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Always pisses me off when you can search Amazon for say cat5e pure copper and get a load of responses that don't even have copper mentioned on the listing page. Anyway about the only cable I'm currently sure of on Amazon are the Oren brand. Do however check its what you want as the reviews indicate its a bit less flexible than other cable. Its also a bit pricey.

A bit ridiculous you would have to get a 2gb line just to get 200mb upload.

I wonder why they don't offer equal upload and download like they do with fibre in other countries?

Be prepared for delays unless your install is very very simple. Im waiting nearly 9 weeks from my install date and 15 weeks from when I preordered. Have another install date on wednesday, but at this stage im expecting another delay.

Yep,

Our original date was June 7th, they rang earlier and got out to us Mon 29th of May, they couldn't do it they needed a digger or something said they'd be back that afternoon as he needed help but they were on another job said he'd call back later that day, a no show, no sign next day either, Called back Friday that week, did a small bit then said he couldn't do it again something to do with the Pole, they're due back tomorrow but I have very little hope they'll get it done tomorrow tbh or if they'll even show up.

It all started with what I thought was a simple solitary pole needed. It took 4 ish weeks to show up. Even though on survey, they failed to send a pole crew with a digger and tried to put it close to the road and hit rock. They said they would have to get a digger to put pole further from road or else a rock drill. A rock drill showed up another 4 ish weeks later. Pole is there now.

They have to duct now from pole to the house. Fingers crossed it goes smoothly on wednesday

Hey my friend is getting NBI through Vodafone, installers are arriving on Saturday but Vodafone haven't sent him out a Modem yet, do installers brint Modem on the day for Vodafone?

I know people who got it through Sky & they all received it through the post.

How did they do a duct from the pole to the house, was it through the garden or something like that?

The one I bumped into (tracked down) was up a private farm track following phone lines looking for poles. He told me he'd found a load in the area that Eir didn't have on their list.

Finally got an install date in the Athy/Ballylinan deployment area: 26th July 2023

So a little over a month to go to get installed. Very exciting!

Why wound anyone need 2Gb broadband ?

You could run a data centre with that 😂

From experience, it will be about 6-8 months after your neighbours went "Ready to Connect". They won't survey new additions until after the original rollout in your area is completed.

I'd say there is a good chance you get it early. DP's on poles means it's close. Likely you are on one of the early activated strings in your deployment area