Broadband in Drogheda Dublin Rd area.

IE2012 · 05-09-2012 01:37PM

positron wrote: »

To answer myself, I did a quick count on Google Earth, and there are approximately 343 houses and 32 apartments in Wheaton Hall, plus more like shops and medical practice etc - I suppose we can round it to 400.

If one cabinet can only serve 200 connections, Wheaton Hall should have two cabinets just for itself. So is that cabinet outside Wheaton Hall actually for Wheaton Hall, or could it be to serve Beaubec across the road? Or are there other cabinets inside Wheaton Hall? Questions questions...

if that cabinet is for wheaton hall, then those in forrest view, barley cove etc, are a long way from that cab! i would guess that they would be at least 1km from the cabinet.

positron · 05-09-2012 02:10PM

IE2012 wrote: »

if that cabinet is for wheaton hall, then those in forrest view, barley cove etc, are a long way from that cab! i would guess that they would be at least 1km from the cabinet.

Yes, but still better than the 5 km from Patrick Street

These are the other two cabinets that I know of within Wheaton Hall - but they both look like ESB cabinets, are they not? Are there any more, and any Eircom ones?

http://goo.gl/maps/b1fU5
http://goo.gl/maps/3EtlK

IE2012 · 05-09-2012 02:12PM

positron wrote: »

Yes, but still better than the 5 km from Patrick Street

These are the other two cabinets that I know of within Wheaton Hall - but they both look like ESB cabinets, are they not? Are there any more, and any Eircom ones?

http://goo.gl/maps/b1fU5
http://goo.gl/maps/3EtlK

they are ESB cabinets im afraid

positron · 05-09-2012 02:14PM

And this little one?

http://goo.gl/maps/ib81m

IE2012 · 05-09-2012 02:16PM

positron wrote: »

And this little one?

http://goo.gl/maps/ib81m

environmental monitoring, i believe, something to do with the big factory accross the river i think

positron · 05-09-2012 02:22PM

Darn darn darn. One cabinet for 400 connections? eire-miracle-com!

LFCFan · 06-09-2012 10:07AM

There's a second platform with a cover on it beside this cab so they are probably going to add a second one at some stage?

Lord TSC · 06-09-2012 05:46PM

Feels like they are digging up half the estate in Grange Rath laying these wires....

IE2012 · 06-09-2012 06:28PM

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

Feels like they are digging up half the estate in Grange Rath laying these wires....

it must be fiber so, or are they putting in loads of different cabs?

what colour are the cables they are putting in? what part of grange rath are they working in?

so is Grange Rath getting FTTH?

IE2012 · 06-09-2012 06:54PM

LFCFan wrote: »

There's a second platform with a cover on it beside this cab so they are probably going to add a second one at some stage?

LFCFAN

there is a CAB at the entrance to Stameen, here it is http://goo.gl/maps/cCqAM cCqAM

it looks big enough, so that is probably feeding five oaks too?

Lord TSC · 06-09-2012 06:58PM

IE2012 wrote: »

it must be fiber so, or are they putting in loads of different cabs?

what colour are the cables they are putting in? what part of grange rath are they working in?

so is Grange Rath getting FTTH?

Not seen the color of the wires. Not the type of person to walk up to the guys digging everything up and ask. :P

They seemed to put in those green boxes at both entrances though and one at the end of the Boulevard (I think), and they've dug up channels at the top of Park Close and the Boulavard, as well as starting to dig up the green in front of the houses at the main entrance. They seem to be digging lines up from the boxes to houses (and not doing a great job filling them back in either :P).

ferpur · 06-09-2012 08:10PM

I wastalking to someone from eircom today he told me that the fibre rollout will notbe happing till Feb. or March next year and even then you will have to ask forit.

it will not be available to anyone on 8mg onlythose that pay for 10mg and above they still have not decided on prices so for thoseholding there breath time to let it out:(

positron · 06-09-2012 11:31PM

Something happened earlier this evening around 10, went down for a minute and now my connection has degraded to around 1 Mbps!

IE2012 · 07-09-2012 10:05AM

positron wrote: »

Something happened earlier this evening around 10, went down for a minute and now my connection has degraded to around 1 Mbps!

hi are you with vodafone for broadband?

positron · 07-09-2012 10:08AM

Yes, why do you have the same issue?

IE2012 · 07-09-2012 10:23AM

positron wrote: »

Yes, why do you have the same issue?

yes one of my lines with vodafone was down for a few hours yesterday, and is acting a bit unstable overall.

its a little strange that my line would would be stable on eircom for years and then with a move to vodafone, suddenly become unstable..

LFCFan · 10-09-2012 03:08PM

ferpur wrote: »

I was talking to someone from eircom today he told me that the fibre rollout will notbe happing till Feb. or March next year and even then you will have to ask for it.

it will not be available to anyone on 8mg only those that pay for 10mg and above they still have not decided on prices so for those holding there breath time to let it out:(

I was talking to someone in Eircom too and they said the Dublin Road area would be live at the end of September. Moral of the story when it comes to talking to Eircom.......believe it when you see it!!!

IE2012 · 10-09-2012 04:37PM

LFCFan wrote: »

I was talking to someone in Eircom too and they said the Dublin Road area would be live at the end of September. Moral of the story when it comes to talking to Eircom.......believe it when you see it!!!

latest is go live is 2013, and no FTTH for Drogheda, only FTTC

Lord TSC · 11-09-2012 07:03PM

Anyone else having net problems in Grange Rath (he says knowing they cannot reply if they are).

My net has been down since about 4 and am wondering if its me or everyone...

LFCFan · 12-09-2012 10:54AM

I don't suppose this is a cabinet of some sort?

ferpur · 12-09-2012 12:02PM

LFCFan wrote: »

I don't suppose this is a cabinet of some sort?

no that is the drop box for the post they drop the post there by van and the posty picks it up to delver it to houses

LFCFan · 13-09-2012 09:48AM

There was an engineer working on the new Wheaton Hall cab last night around 9:00!

IE2012 · 13-09-2012 10:23AM

LFCFan wrote: »

There was an engineer working on the new Wheaton Hall cab last night around 9:00!

he was still there at 9.30!

UTCGMT01 · 14-10-2012 05:22PM

anyone else using vodafone broadband and finding it crap?

mine seems to degrade every night around 1am, for between 15-25 mins.. then goes back to normal.

router stats look ok, 4mb /384

gipi · 14-10-2012 06:16PM

You're doing well with 4mB on Voda - I can't get anything higher than 1.85 at best!

UTCGMT01 · 14-10-2012 11:09PM

gipi wrote: »

You're doing well with 4mB on Voda - I can't get anything higher than 1.85 at best!

what location are you based

1jcdub · 14-10-2012 11:23PM

There was an article in the Drogheda Independent this week saying that Drogheda would be the first town in Ireland to get fiberoptic broadband and it would be launched December 2012!

gipi · 15-10-2012 03:04PM

UTCGMT01 wrote: »

what location are you based

I'm in Wheaton Hall.

1jcdub · 15-10-2012 03:10PM

I'm in Deepforde on the Dub rd. Currently with eircom. Currently have 7mb download speed on a 8 mb plan

markc1184 · 15-10-2012 06:59PM

Is this what all the work is for around the town lately? Have noticed a lot of Eircom workers around, particularly this past week.

Broadband in Drogheda Dublin Rd area.

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