Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

naughto · 27-05-2013 04:32PM

irishgeo wrote: »

They buggered off and I have no Internet and they broken the phone as well.

They reckon I need to phone Vodafone.

Wait till you see the wiring job

DOes it usually work straight away.?

They reckon I can get 42down and 10 up.

did they make a balls of it??are they coming back tomorrow?

phog · 27-05-2013 04:36PM

irishgeo wrote: »

They buggered off and I have no Internet and they broken the phone as well.

They reckon I need to phone Vodafone.

Wait till you see the wiring job

DOes it usually work straight away.?

They reckon I can get 42down and 10 up.

What lights are working in the modem? Have you rang Vodafone?

Praetorian · 27-05-2013 04:36PM

irishgeo wrote: »

They buggered off and I have no Internet and they broken the phone as well.

They reckon I need to phone Vodafone.

Wait till you see the wiring job

DOes it usually work straight away.?

They reckon I can get 42down and 10 up.

Maybe they thought they were installing "eircom hispeed" dual channel 128 kb superfast goodness.

In fairness, there has to be teething problems with a few early installs. They will get better & faster.

Unlucky as it is for you, you will get sorted!

Imagine still not even offering the products yet for my home. I may be over 1km from the cabinet, or I might be 250 metres. I bet I'm 1km from it

I'll be asking for the prize for the lowest sync rate on these new products! At work, I'm right beside the exchange, the exchange area is completed, but it's not available yet on my numbers...I'm hoping it will be someday...

Tommy Lagahan · 27-05-2013 04:37PM

The technician said to me that they were having a shedload of bother with vodafone and he had to call them personally to get it sorted for a customer.

leigh852 · 27-05-2013 04:37PM

irishgeo wrote: »

1 hr 40 mins later and we are still not live. Must be their first install.

Pretty sure I seen your getting installed! There was a guy at that cabinet this about an hour ago! Show us your speed results when you get connected

irishgeo · 27-05-2013 04:40PM

leigh852 wrote: »

Pretty sure I seen your getting installed! There was a guy at that cabinet this about an hour ago! Show us your speed results when you get connected

If I get connected. Yeah thats only after he rang for directions to find it.

MMAGirl · 27-05-2013 04:41PM

Well there you have it folks. If the line takes a winding path to your house an is 1km long or more, you will never get fttc.
So people who are in no broadband land will be staying in no broadband land.

Straight from the horses mouth.

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056957825/1/#post84805873

phog · 27-05-2013 04:49PM

MMAGirl wrote: »

Well there you have it folks. If the line takes a winding path to your house an is 1km long or more, you will never get fttc.
So people who are in no broadband land will be staying in no broadband land.

Straight from the horses mouth.

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056957825/1/#post84805873

I'd say this limit will be pushed out after the initial rollout.

MMAGirl · 27-05-2013 04:51PM

phog wrote: »

I'd say this limit will be pushed out after the initial rollout.

I doubt it. It's like trying to get blood from a stone to get Eircom to give info. They just raise people's hopes and then let them down. They've been at it for years. No reason to expect anything else.
They should be compelled to get cabinets every km so that they actually can provide bb for people who still can't get decent bb.

briggy · 27-05-2013 05:04PM

Just got a call from Eircom. I ordered last Tuesday and got an install date for Thursday week.

Cheerful Spring · 27-05-2013 05:10PM

gazzamc wrote: »

You do know that both those games are MMO's (Massively Multiplayer Online Games).. So obviously they will need to be played online... Single player games won't disappear any time soon....

And Sony haven't said anything about needing to connect the console to the internet to play (any game like Xbone).

And Diablo III has always Online DRM implemented so it's an exception... But when it comes to the Xbox One every game will need a connection to the internet (Activation, and then every 24hrs thereafter).

Read this might change your thinking?

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/27/4369782/from-xbox-one-to-xbox-none-the-risks-of-an-internet-required-gaming

phog · 27-05-2013 05:13PM

MMAGirl wrote: »

I doubt it. It's like trying to get blood from a stone to get Eircom to give info. They just raise people's hopes and then let them down. They've been at it for years. No reason to expect anything else.
They should be compelled to get cabinets every km so that they actually can provide bb for people who still can't get decent bb.

When ADSL was first rolled out it was similar, certain exchanges and within a certain limit.

jca · 27-05-2013 05:21PM

phog wrote: »

When ADSL was first rolled out it was similar, certain exchanges and within a certain limit.

It still is :mad::mad:

Tommy Lagahan · 27-05-2013 05:25PM

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Read this might change your thinking?

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/27/4369782/from-xbox-one-to-xbox-none-the-risks-of-an-internet-required-gaming

Microsoft are going crazy recently. They seem to hate customers at the moment. Sony have said that they do not require an internet connection citing poor availability in many countries as the cause.
That's a whole other discussion that can spiral out of control though, lets just keep it to the Eircom problems here!

phog · 27-05-2013 05:27PM

jca wrote: »

It still is :mad::mad:

True but not nearly as restricted as first rollout.

I'm 7km from my exchange and getting just under 2megs. A few years back I was on dial-up.

Mc Love · 27-05-2013 05:43PM

bk wrote: »

DSL technology is all distance based.

The high speeds over VDSL only work over short distances, when you get to 1km line length, the speed of VDSL quickly drops to the same as ADSL. See the chart here:

Now even at 1km there would be some benefit, but at least for now, it seems that Eircom is perhaps wisely limiting it to only people who benefit the most from it.

To be honest I would take it over the crap 1.6 MB I am getting at the moment! Already paying for 8mb package to get the unlimited downloads.

phog · 27-05-2013 05:55PM

Mc Love wrote: »

To be honest I would take it over the crap 1.6 MB I am getting at the moment! Already paying for 8mb package to get the unlimited downloads.

Is your cab sorted?

Mc Love · 27-05-2013 06:01PM

Dont think so, number still coming up as not being enabled, but apparently the address checker is saying it is

irishgeo · 27-05-2013 06:49PM

Very disappointed with the whole install really. I took a half day from work and now going to have to get more time off tomorrow for these engineers to come back and fix the mess they have left.

Cantona's Collars · 27-05-2013 07:14PM

Had an Eircom tech working on the cab near my place today.I was told it'd be about 10 days before we are up & running,that was last week so here's hoping.

swoofer · 27-05-2013 07:15PM

what could they have possibly got wrong???? do you have lots of extensions etc. they should have stayed. so its eircom doing a VF install!!! I am down for wednesday 5th june 2.30pm-4.30pm. I would rather a morning call.

And going by what I was told on the phone it could be a nightmare!!

were you told your profile or was it just a case of this is what you are getting?

jjspine · 27-05-2013 07:20PM

Got an appointment on balrothery for the 13th of June so the cab must be finally ready to go.

irishgeo · 27-05-2013 07:33PM

GBCULLEN wrote: »

what could they have possibly got wrong???? do you have lots of extensions etc. they should have stayed. so its eircom doing a VF install!!! I am down for wednesday 5th june 2.30pm-4.30pm. I would rather a morning call.

And going by what I was told on the phone it could be a nightmare!!

were you told your profile or was it just a case of this is what you are getting?

Only 1 point and a house alarm. No idea what went wrong. I don't even have a broadband connection. I was told I be getting 44 down and 10up.

liamnojo92 · 27-05-2013 07:40PM

irishgeo wrote: »

Only 1 point and a house alarm. No idea what went wrong. I don't even have a broadband connection. I was told I be getting 44 down and 10up.

What cabinet are you on in Cbar ? want to see if there's a sticker on it.

irishgeo · 27-05-2013 07:50PM

liamnojo92 wrote: »

What cabinet are you on in Cbar ? want to see if there's a sticker on it.

No sticker on any cab in Castlebar.

liamnojo92 · 27-05-2013 08:02PM

They really do try and make it as difficult as possible to find out what cabs are activated.

Finical · 27-05-2013 08:06PM

liamnojo92 wrote: »

They really do try and make it as difficult as possible to find out what cabs are activated.

Yeah and mine is supposedly active, but I still can't get it because they have to update the address system. God knows how long that will take!

Tommy Lagahan · 27-05-2013 08:06PM

My SNR is leveling off a bit higher now, the DSLAM seems to be training in every hour or so as I see a massive ping spike and a few dropped packets on my ping that's been running all day. Line is up to 11.484Mbps "attainable" upload and my upload has risen to 9.5Mb on speedtest. Download is at 57.168Mbps "attainable". I'm assuming that this means that if i was on the 70Mb those are the max speeds the line will sync at, but they're capped at 10.685 up and 50.261 down on this package. Surely I'd get away without interleaving now?

godskitchen · 27-05-2013 08:23PM

irishgeo wrote: »

No sticker on any cab in Castlebar.

There is on the cabs with copper lines, no sticker on the new fibre cabs in castlebar.

naughto · 27-05-2013 08:25PM

seen a cabinet in at dunbeag Estate in C/bar this evening

Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

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