National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Just a follow up from my above question for anyone that will find themselves in a similar situation. I had the Fibre drop from the pole DP to the ground access chamber done today and all went well. I have to say Circet guys have been an absolute pleasure to deal with.

Spoke with one of the installers and putting in the 1 inch hydrodare from access chamber to the planned internal ONT point is perfectly adequate. They just finished up and left a coil of ~30 meters in the access chamber for duct run to ONT.

I got a call within the hour from Circet to set up an appointment for the final install to run it inside the building next week. I just have to get the duct installed now. There was a (SC/APC I think) terminator put on the end of the fiber so whether that has to get through the duct or not I don't know, but I doubt it. Probably put on just to test integrity of cable back to DP or OLT.

Jim

<for the record>

The Business Post has an interview with NBI's David McCourt.

https://www.businesspost.ie/uncategorized/david-mccourt-on-the-multibillion-euro-broadband-plan-vindication-and-where-capitalism-went-wrong/

Apparently as follows,

…and there's a podcast here

https://www.businesspost.ie/podcast/take-a-listen-the-business-post-podcast-with-national-broadband-irelands-david-mccourt/

DP?

ok the cable has just passed my entrance with a curled up reel right at an old pole beside my poles into my property where the old eir cable used run

What happens next and how long away is their next step?

Also I looked at the underground section of the old eir cable for a section underground as it crosses under an Esb 110 line

Will they insist on undergrounding the new fibre there too? Or just continue the overhead line? They’ve gone overhead under many high voltage lines elsewhere

If they do,can’t we get them to use the eir cable to pull their fibre through the old eir underground anyway?

edit it’s the same as the reel on the pole in the photo a few posts above,so the dp is next? Will it be another month before that’s on ?

The line of poles from where the dp will be to the house is about 450 metres

The last pole is about 10 metres from the house

I just went through a similar situation. There was pole with an NBI DP approx 40 meters from my house that I had assumed they would be using for my connection. This would have been an overhead connection to gable and right into attic space where I wanted the ONT. However on first visit by NBI (Circet) the installer said this wasn't the DP planned for my connection and either way it passed under a LV line to neighbours house so that was a no go. I asked if they alter design plans often to which he said not really. The actual designated DP was some 200 meters away on opposite side of national road that they would have to get traffic control in place while they strung the cable over 3/4 poles (same poles going to DP 40m from my house so two fiber lines on poles) before going underground through Telecom Eireann era duct for the last 50m to a manhole chamber in my footpath.

This chamber was approx 30m away from where I actually wanted the ONT so I had a significant amount of chasing etc. to do to get ducting from the access chamber to preferred ONT location. Coil of fiber was left in chamber while I sorted ducting.

When installer came 3 days ago to install ONT, to be fair he was impressed how easy I had set it up for him. Fiber was pulled and ONT installed and spliced within 30 mins. I asked him what the story was with NBI and passing under ESBN lines. He said they needed 1 meter clearance for LV lines and 2 meters if I remember correctly for Medium Voltage lines but that they won't go under HV lines. Like Cush, I would have thought the fiber cable not being conductive would make it a non-issue. Not sure what the truth is. Only thing I can think of is interference when ESBN are replacing wires or maybe the first installer saw the existing eir duct as the easier option.

Jim

it’s at the road pictured above 450 metres from the house

The above pole is where the old eir land line was connected and the poles on my land run along a ditch in a straight line from that pole

I place the pre order with one of the companies is it and they instruct NBI/circet to run the line? I was thinking of bundling with virgin media for their tv service and maybe mobile,so ordering with them on their website will trigger it?

Yes there can be differences as NBI would be "handing over" to the retail provider's core network in most cases, where latency, peering and capacity might differ. There's usually not major differences but if issues with speed drops or latency spikes occur, it would be something to keep in mind as a switch of provider might fix the issue.

Pure Telecom 500Mb with One Big Switch is €30pm for 12m

https://onebigswitch.ie/offers/broadband

ok the black ONT thing ,the box was put on my poles and all poles to the end of the line today

My Eircode checker had changed status even from this morning and now shows the below,allowing me to click through to the list of providers for pre order

But none of them are saying anything is available yet

Virgin media who I want to try for year one because nerdy me wants to try their tv service,have gone from saying not available yet to a message saying they’re‘warming up the cables’

So when are they likely to accept an order and what happens next?

This is NBI