Eir - now offering 2Gb fibre broadband and new WiFi 7 device

FTTC basically just moves the DSL aspect of a telephone exchange closer to the house. You were just running fibre from a node in the exchange building to remote units in those cabinets which kept the lines shorter and allowed higher speed, but it's still a DSL signal over a plain old telephone line, which has severe limitations.

The FTTH network is basically just rebuilt entirely - has nothing to do with copper phone lines - other than it's pushed down the same ducts and polls, it's an entirely new network.

Personally I think 1gig is as much as any normal household will ever need a long time into the future, it's a bit like TVs, HD is as much as anyone wants, 4K and beyond doesn't really interest the majority of households especially with people using streaming services to watch stuff. ADSL to fttc was a welcome jump that everyone took as soon as it became available quickly followed by ftth 500/1000 anything after that is overkill.

Hi, I'm wondering if any of you might help? I moved to Eir 7 Wi-Fi 2G, but I am only getting about 920mbs I have contacted Eir, and they said I was using the incorrect CAT Cable, I purchased a CAT 8 Ethernet cable, but that has made no difference. I moved it from the 10G port and back but no difference. Has anyone got any suggestions?

The device you're testing on has a 1gig card, proving my earlier point. You need to test on something that has at least a 2gig card or a WiFi 7 device.

So on the enhanced WiFi 7 mode, I imagine with that turned on you'd have to toggle security back to WPA2 or something?

When I turned it on but allowed it to change the security protocol a lot of things didn't automatically connect to my WiFi and I thought it might have been due to a misspelling in my SSID when switching routers.

can you use IPoE with eir?

I’ve gotten iPv6 working on an ASUS router

Yep WAN in DHCP, no PPPoE. It was very straightforward

But if I leave 2.4 and 5 at WPA2 I shouldn't have issues with running in enhanced mode should I?

I can run all 3 bands simultaneously at the moment without whatever the enhanced mode does, but for those capable of 6 they get better speeds with that mode on.

I think when I originally switched it on it may have changed all bands but I haven't had the house to myself to retry it again.

Edit: So I tried the enhanced mode while everyone was gone and it's pretty unstable I think, this time no SSIDs were broadcast apart from a 2.4 guest one so knocked if off again. It sets WPA3 for all bands and manually setting 2.5 and 5 back to WPA2 still doesn't seem to function correctly.

What I did find helpful though was to disable band steering, it seemed to be pushing my 6Ghz capable devices back down to 5, so I turned it off and allowed the devices themselves to manage it and started to get the higher speeds then.