National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Hi I did the same with sky and the first date they gave me was the 20 Sept that date came and went as it was still in preorder stage on NBI. Went to ready to connect last week on NBI. Someone on behalf of Sky rang there yesterday to say that they would be out to connect up 1st Nov.

Thanks for that ShaunC, good to know. Haven't measured it but reckon I'm definitely within 65m, probably within 50m as well.

Is worming the cable up your lawn an option with NBI infra when they come to survey? Ideally would like to avoid coming in overhead. I am out in countryside & fibre terminal put in on a pole about 50 metres up the road from me & another 50 metres up the drive to my house. Just want to have a bit of knowledge before the surveyor calls soon hopefully to outline plan.

Any advice appreciated & if anyone has gone through something similiar

Thanks for reply

No existing ducting in place. Don't have a landline. Using Imagine LTE broadband since moved in.

looks like that is exactly what is happening with me… Yesterday came and went without anybody showing up.. Sky app tells me yesterday's visit is still "in progress"..

Yep thats what i thought. There is a duplicate work going on. Open Eir are upgrading all FTTC connections to FTTH. Even if those areas are in the NBI. Like my estate.

Dumb question time - how do I know if I'm getting an OpenEir or NBI connection? Getting connected tomorrow.

Are you in the NBP intervention area? If so check the NBI website for availability dates in your area.

As above both OpenEir and NBI can be available in the same location.

Edit: I see from a post a year ago we're from the same area, in which case there's no NBI fibre here yet. Likely 12 months away.

Lots of work being done in preparation, roads in the area marked recently for new NBI poles and ducting done from the exchange to routes outside the village.

Eir did some work also, they rolled fibre out to the village recently and extended their fibre around the 5 Cross Roads.

Interesting. I live down past the 5 cross-roads and they have brought fibre along the Newport road just past Denis Holmes Kitchens. Routed it along about a month ago. In early October Eir came door to door saying it was due to go active on October 24th and I'm scheduled to have the house connected tomorrow. That is the end of the current Murroe copper line. From there it is the line coming from Newport. Interestingly that have markings for new poles past the end of the Murroe line so looks like they are extending and bringing it further from the Murroe direction.

Comreg and the NBI site are still saying that Network Build is Underway with a date of Jan to Dec 2026!

Looks like maybe I'm getting OpenEir then. I did look at the NBI and OpenEir providers and identified providers that are on NBI but not OpenEir. Virgin Media are one and when I do the availability checker on their site it says that fibre is not available but Eir/Digiweb/Three etc. all say it is available.

Circet we're there and ran cable to house today got another phone call from sky to confirm that they would come and complete the connection Friday 1st. Sky hub also arrived today.

Yes that's correct thats all they did today. Weren't in the house at all today

That's odd. Usually they go the whole way when that far. Seems pointless? KN Cricet can do the whole hog, and it's a plug and play job for the router once line is active. A bit of a waste if you think about it.

I don't think it's uncommon. My fibre was brought from the DP to the house by one crew, and brought into the house and connected by another (one man) ~two weeks later. I've seen at least one other person say the same on this thread. I've also seen evidence of the same around here too (fibre coiled at houses).

OpenEir, NBI, Siro, Virgin Media are all different wholesale providers and use their own networks hence you'd need different fibre cable & ONT installed depending on which wholesale provider the retail provider is supplying to your premises

Got connected yesterday with OpenEir and Eir as the provider with the 1Gbps package. Needed to go overhead but very tidy install by KN.

Unbelievable difference compared to my 4G. Was maxing out at over 900Mbps using a Cat5e cable to my 14 year old laptop with Linux OS. Getting over 100 Megabytes per second on a torrent via a VPN. Tested it via wireless by streaming a 100GB film on my TV, worked flawlessly.

Getting a TP Link mesh system delivered next week and going to use one node to replace the EIr router.