SIRO - ESB/Vodafone Fibre To The Home

Have you tried a ping trace route on a computer? It should show you where the bottleneck is, extremely annoying when that starts happening. It's down to routing unfortunately, usually somewhere outside the country. It was being caused by a faulty BT hub in the UK a few years ago.

Same issue here, can't even stream SD on Vodafone 1Gbps link in Swords, speed tests are terrible in the evenings

Those with crappy evening speeds from Vodafone, consider Siro from someone like Digiweb. We've had no speed issues in the evenings.

Digiweb are effectively a rebranded Eir using Eir's traffic routing, which strangely enough is always the fastest route available at any given time.

Siro's network is nothing to do with Eir. I don't see how it would be possible to take the traffic off SIRO to ask Eir where to move it around to, or indeed what the point would be.

Digiweb also re-sell openEir fibre connections which is probably what the poster is referring to.

Sky broadband is also a reseller of openEir who have no influence over the internal routing of traffic over the network, openEir do that. The only physical networks in the country are openEir, virgin cable, siro, the mobile phone companies, and the two government projects the Man rings and national broadband. You can buy commercial fibre from the likes of bt but we can ignore that for consumer purposes.

All traffic from all networks leaves the country from the same hub in Dublin. There is literally nothing a reseller can do to influence where customer a or customer b gets routed once the traffic leaves the box in your house.

The most common cause of slowness is companies like virgin who won't pay for local caching.

The slow evening issues with vodafone and siro seem to be resolved now. Thankfully

Cork has one too ... CIX has been in operation for many years.

We have Siro just about one month now. We had a brief outage earlier today. We've been very lucky up to now as we've never had a BB outage before, except one time when we were unplugged by an engineer at the hub. I suspect weather was a factor this morning.

Just wondering if ye know is outage information posted anywhere? Similar to the way power outages or water outages are posted.

The Siro site has nothing and google returns nothing.

I like how we've gone from "my connection is slow" to "here's a hidden map of the reality of internet connectivity". Thanks!

Siro, OpenEir and NBI are wholesale access networks. Your point of contact is through your ISP. They don't have any channels for dealing with end users directly as they don't sell you anything themselves.

It's actually a bit of an issue because some of the smaller ISPs have absolutely no out of hours tech support. You can be in a fairly significant issue if the service goes down say on a Friday of a bank holiday weekend.

It would make some sense to have a pooled resource for reporting significant faults.

It's Vodafone rather than SIRO. When I had them the PPPoE connection would drop every single night. Meanwhile my Digiweb SIRO connection has been up solid since 29th July when I last rebooted the router.

How much are digiweb now? I was with them for a year with fttc, rock solid connection in fairness, it got a bit messy when I tried to leave. They don't show prices on their site which is annoying.

After years of looking at the SIRO distribution box on my parents electricity pole, they're finally getting it installed this month in Cork. Lads up the ESB poles this week seem to actually be connecting them. Eir Fibre wanted to install a pole in the garden to bring it across the road. Moving from 8Mb to 500Mb will be fantastic for them.