National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

It will be interesting to see if any ISPs streamline their offerings by dropping 500Mb, 1Gb, or 2Gb offerings like Eir did…?

I note that VM are supplying routers that can't handle more than 1Gb for their 2Gb customers - so you don't even need to supply suitable equipment for the higher connections! ;)

Nah, only 1Gb LAN.
Wifi6 wont give 2Gb in any practical scenario though, will it?

No it won’t, you’d need 6Ghz WiFi 7 for closer to 2Gb over WiFi

So it’s just one 10Gb WAN port and all LAN ports are 1Gb? I was under the impression there was 1 x 10Gb LAN & 3 x 1Gb LAN like the picture below

Yes that’s right actually but you would be a bit closer to 2Gb with WiFi 7 6GHz compared to WiFi 6E

There's movement lads 👀
Signs up again saying "on behalf of openeir" but Eir's fiber rollout never came down this road. Wound the window down on the way past and asked him if was for NBI and he said aye. Couple chambers open looked like he was pushing some of this blue subduct thru them. Right near the very edge of the DA, surprised to see them at stuff out here.

About to step out of the dark ages - after years of showing end of 2026 for availability, I can now preoder with a potential mid September install (there are a few trees that may have something to say about that).

I've preordered with Vodafone who were first out of the blocks in the area, but I'm not sure it's a deal of the century - Eur 40pm for up to 500mb plus Eur 10pm for Gigahome. 24 month contract. My gut is telling me I would be better getting a 1GB service with them, or another provider (possibly Eir), for similar money and sorting my own mesh system.

There doesn't appear to be a huge difference in prices for 1GB services across providers, but is there anything I should be watching out for in terms of quality of services, modems etc. We're not huge data users but that's a result of the broadband options we've had. I fully expect our usage will grow.

They were still working further down that road yesterday when I was on the way home from work, pushing bigger yellow duct through this time. Apparently its for the larger fibre cables with more cores in them. Anyone have a rough timeline from when make-ready work got done and NBI started sending crews out to send fibre up the ducts in their area? There'll be a slap of work up my road because as far as I know its just buried cable at certain points rather than ducted. Used to only handle 28.8k dial up lol.

Dunno about Vodafone but a mate of mine on Eir's rural FTTH infra from a few years back was on Digiweb there and was getting a rake of routing issues to game servers in Europe recently, jitter and 100+ms latency. He switched over to Pure using Eir's backhaul and it all went away. Could be completely different on NBI's infra though.

When our DPs were installed it only took about 3 months before we could order. We never went to a preorder phase. Just went from fibre expected middle of next year to available to order. That was about 3 years ago.

I remember at the time not all the providers were working off the same information regarding connection status. Vodafone had a pretty sweet deal at the time but they wouldn't take an order as their system said we weren't available for connection yet. Sky and Eir on the other were able to book me in right away.