National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

I can guarantee the lads on the ground don't give a fk. If there's a duct to the pole they'll just throw it in there than tether new over head lines and stays. To be honest.

They gave the next neighbour the option of an overhead cable to the house or trench. He went with overhead as he didn't want his pristine garden disrupted. I managed to speak to the guys doing it and they said it would be underground if I wanted it. Mine wasn't done as it's a new build and wasn't built at the time the survey was undertaken.

@con747 @listermint 50mm it is then as electric gates could well be on the cards down the line.

@Raichų regarding your friends issue. I have starlink at the moment. The hardware was half price as it was refurbished kit starlink were selling and then it's €50 per month for the service. I'm consistently getting 200 download speeds. All our TV is streamed and WFH is a breeze. The service is excellent.

Tbh no one can honestly answer that until they're stringing lines on his road. Reality his estimations have shifted forwards but also backwards for various people and areas.

We had our road network put in a year ago. Still not ran into houses yet.

That's down cul de sac private road. Not a pass through.

yeah I mentioned it to him again but he said he’s got a 5G broadband contract at the minute- I mistook him when he said he’s using 5G as just running off his mobile data via hotspots etc but he has a standalone 5G broadband tower.

I understand generally providers allow you to upgrade to FTTH when it’s available for free as well.

After a number of weeks of cleaning poles and pulling cables a black box has now been installed in pole outside my house. The status update on nbi.ie has changed from 2026 to July-Sep 2025. Anyone any idea from experience how long it took to go live after these boxes were installed on poles?

Once black box was installed outside my house , there was surveyor from TLI (working on behalf of NBI) on-site within a few days. He discussed with me how I wanted cable to brought to the house. Connected within 6-8 weeks from then.

Any word from NBI on the existing infrastructure damage due to storm Éowyn?

A lot of fibre on the ground in our area.

So a little bit of progress on mine yesterday.

It was Sept 2024 when the teams came and installed the fibre cabling between the lamp posts. Guy I spoke to said I should definitely have it before Xmas. Came and went.

Yesterday the black circular boxes appeared on the lamp posts along my road. Not sure what they are called, but they tend to have fibre wrapped around them.

Website giving estimate now of Apr to June, so hopefully not far away.

keep in touch with your provider they will be receiving any and all updates from NBI— they themselves won’t speak to you.
There’s significant damage caused across the network so it is possible your area simply doesn’t have a forecasted restoration date as of yet

This is my fear for going on NBI. I'm very rural and I fxcked the Eir landline out the door years ago despite not having ANY mobile signal at all (still none) because they can't seem to keep their aging infrastructure live and wires were eternally down.

We depend on internet for everything, Calls, messages, TV, entertainment, everything.

Currently on a local mast and reciever system which is very reliable, but not up to serious gaming for example which my young lad is into. I even had to put up my own repeater mast (with their help) to get that 10 years ago. Before that it was satellite which was sh1t altogether.

I'm worried that whilst NBI will give perfect speeds, that I'll be down half the time.

Is starlink much slower?

Can't afford to pay for two systems monthly.

Of course, I'm just pointing out that repair works have started and it sounds like Eir have been quicker off the mark. If I remember correctly open Eir are responsible for the poles the NBI use. We had a couple that were in danger of falling after the storm righted nearby and the cables respliced.

I haven't seen the KN vans (who were working on behalf of NBI) out yet however.

How many people realise that the backhauls of Eir and NBI are different. People on NBI will assume when Eir are around their broadband will be back soon. This might not be the case and I'm hoping NBI are being prioritised in the same way as Eir by the goverment.

Fixed line will always be better IMHO. Regardless of speed, judder and contention will never be a problem. The pricing by providers on NBI has been very competitive also. I'm with Digiweb and have found them excellent to deal with.

I was told by my ISP that when service is restored a credit will be applied to my account. In the meantime I've paid for a 30 day data sim only plan from one of the cell network operators.

Did you read my posts. I said the same thing...

In fairness open eir as I said are largely in urban and built up areas so the faults are easier to fix quicker (they’ve also got a lot more experience in this than NBI in general + more crews).

Not sure what you mean with regards the government; I do recall the entire last week during the majority of the cleanup they were in recess…