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

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  • #5342
    Simon Gruber Says
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭Simon Gruber Says


    hfallada wrote: »
    If you live in Dublin city why are you getting eircom? It's slow, expensive and the service is **** like you expected. UPC are far superior and finally have gotten their customer service together. You could easily get 50 mb with UPC. Maybe 100-150mb and they only take a few days to instal

    Not available in my area, nothing is


  • #5343
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Mustard1972 wrote: »
    Im sure that all of us would go with ANYONE to get fast BB. Believe it or not UPC dont cover most of Dublin. Some of us are stuck with half meg BB while our next door neighbors have Fiber and Eircom wont do a thing to help us.

    Are you living in Dundrum or Sandyford Area?


  • #5344
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Hi lads,

    I have to set up my first eFibre for a private business next week. Could anybody point me to configuration/setup instructions for doing this.. I looked on Eircom's page but I cant find anything..

    thanks,
    J


  • #5345
    banbhaaifric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭banbhaaifric


    hfallada wrote: »
    If you live in Dublin city why are you getting eircom? It's slow, expensive and the service is **** like you expected. UPC are far superior and finally have gotten their customer service together.l

    Got their customer service together????

    I suggest you have a look at a few of their threads to see how many issues they have had recently. 2 items I've seen evidence for are lying to customers and locking them into new contracts without their knowledge, and also retrospectively changing web pages to make it look like they had got a customer's consent to enter into a new contract. That's all before the unbelievable treatment at the hands of 'customer retention'.
    In my opinion they are cowboys.


  • #5346
    Mustard1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭Mustard1972


    red_bairn wrote: »
    Are you living in Dundrum or Sandyford Area?

    Im on the Swords exchange.


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  • #5347
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Mustard1972 wrote: »
    Im on the Swords exchange.

    Then your neighbours don't have fibre.


  • #5348
    Mustard1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭Mustard1972


    red_bairn wrote: »
    Then your neighbours don't have fibre.

    They are connected to Eircoms eFibre FTTC package.


  • #5349
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    A work colleague just told me earlier that an eircom engineer was at the vdsl cabinet on the esmond road in Enniscorthy last week. He had laptop connected to it. Looking good for that area.... Its the other side of town to me unfortunately.. Maybe this week they'll power up my vdsl cabinet.


  • #5350
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    jca wrote: »
    A work colleague just told me earlier that an eircom engineer was at the vdsl cabinet on the esmond road in Enniscorthy last week. He had laptop connected to it. Looking good for that area.... Its the other side of town to me unfortunately.. Maybe this week they'll power up my vdsl cabinet.

    Can't see many of the residents on that road and Drumgoold signing up for fibre JCA;)


  • #5351
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Mustard1972 wrote: »
    They are connected to Eircoms eFibre FTTC package.

    "Some of us are stuck with half meg BB while our next door neighbors have Fiber"

    ”our next door neighbours have VDSL” should be what you said as saying that your neighbour has fibre leads one to believe that they are on FTTH...


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  • #5352
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,130 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    red_bairn wrote: »
    "Some of us are stuck with half meg BB while our next door neighbors have Fiber"

    ”our next door neighbours have VDSL” should be what you said as saying that your neighbour has fibre leads one to believe that they are on FTTH...
    Can't blame the guy really. It's Eircom & Co's fault with their highly misleading advertising and product naming.

    They should actually be taken to task by comreg <hahaha> about the way they describe their VDSL.


  • #5353
    Mustard1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭Mustard1972


    red_bairn wrote: »
    "Some of us are stuck with half meg BB while our next door neighbors have Fiber"

    ”our next door neighbours have VDSL” should be what you said as saying that your neighbour has fibre leads one to believe that they are on FTTH...

    I think we are all smart enough to know what someone is talking about when they mention fibre in this thread.


  • #5354
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    Mustard1972 wrote: »
    I think we are all smart enough to know what someone is talking about when they mention fibre in this thread.

    Exactly!!


  • #5355
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    I'm fucked up waiting at this stage.
    The website says July - September and we're in August now and there's no word.
    Gonna stick with Sky and see when will they launch Sky Fibre.


  • #5356
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    I'm fucked up waiting at this stage.
    The website says July - September and we're in August now and there's no word.
    Gonna stick with Sky and see when will they launch Sky Fibre.
    I'm going to do the same, well, I kinda have'ta seeing as I'm contracted for the €10 pm BB until December:pac: Maybe everything will be in place by then:cool::cool:


  • #5357
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    zerks wrote: »
    Can't see many of the residents on that road and Drumgoold signing up for fibre JCA;)
    Ah God sir shur it'd be grand for uploading pictures of the Hiace to the DoneSteal site:D:D


  • #5358
    bush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    jca wrote: »
    A work colleague just told me earlier that an eircom engineer was at the vdsl cabinet on the esmond road in Enniscorthy last week. He had laptop connected to it. Looking good for that area.... Its the other side of town to me unfortunately.. Maybe this week they'll power up my vdsl cabinet.


    He was probably checking his emails


  • #5359
    jaffusmax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭jaffusmax


    Anyone else sick of Eircom eFibre ads popping up everywhere with them knowing full well it is a half baked botched launch??? And that phrase "In you Area" has lost all meaning!


  • #5360
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,704 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    I'm fucked up waiting at this stage.
    The website says July - September and we're in August now and there's no word.
    Gonna stick with Sky and see when will they launch Sky Fibre.

    The title of the thread says one million homes within three years, there aren't even three months gone yet. You can't complain that any schedule has been broken for your area yet since it is only just over one month into the period.


  • #5361
    eggman99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭eggman99


    jca wrote: »
    I agree with you on this yellow stickers baloney. Personally I think its the usual Eircom half assed disorganised mess. Enniscorthy has plenty of cabinets installed, some are powered and most aren't. No house has fibre yet:mad:. Some cabinets are there since April.... Its a joke of a rollout.

    They tell me it will be September now, the only thing keeping me going is having it before the PS4 comes out. Nothing but lag at the moment


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  • #5362
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    The title of the thread says one million homes within three years, there aren't even three months gone yet. You can't complain that any schedule has been broken for your area yet since it is only just over one month into the period.

    I think its the fact that people located in fiber ready areas arent able to order it or it isnt available is the problem


  • #5363
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    eggman99 wrote: »
    They tell me it will be September now, the only thing keeping me going is having it before the PS4 comes out. Nothing but lag at the moment

    PS4 bah - what I am waiting for is GTA :D


  • #5364
    NextYearIthink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭NextYearIthink


    Looks like they have started building a new box at the entrance of the Maples estate in Bettystown, on the opposite side of the street to the existing box.....at least I think it's going to be an eircom box.....foundations are in and some cables are coming up out of the ground.....I will take a walk around later today to see if I can catch an engineer working on it to ask a few questions....fingers crossed that I will be connected to this one!


  • #5365
    kaerobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭kaerobe


    anyone know about Carrigaline, Cork? Jumped from being available later this year to ''available now''! No local advertising and have tried my friends landlines in the checker if they live near a cabinet, none can get the service.


  • #5366
    captain_boycott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭captain_boycott


    Bump! Anyone on the outer end of the Moneen rd., Castlebar enabled yet?
    captain_boycott wrote: »
    anyone out the Moneen road in Castlebar get e-fibre yet?

    Seem to be 2 cabs close to each other at the industrial Estate, and another out at breaffy village, but nothing in between to serve all the estates around Kilkenny cross, at least that I can find...


  • #5367
    Cork981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Cork981


    wondering what is the overhead on vdsl2.

    I'm syncing at 50170/15389 and getting 47.5/13.80

    I'm assuming there's roughly 5% overhead on VDSL2 ?


  • #5368
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Limerick city centre....not even live for fibre....a same few cabs live/given planning permission. the eircom lads have done as much as they can....we are looking at December now for the main business area of limerick to be switched on!


  • #5369
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I got a new landline....was assured I would/could get fibre....got switched on, no fibre...just 12mb BB.


  • #5370
    bealtine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    NextYearIthink wrote: »
    Looks like they have started building a new box at the entrance of the Maples estate in Bettystown, on the opposite side of the street to the existing box.....at least I think it's going to be an eircom box.....foundations are in and some cables are coming up out of the ground.....I will take a walk around later today to see if I can catch an engineer working on it to ask a few questions....fingers crossed that I will be connected to this one!


    Hopefully you've mapped it? <grin>

    See this post for details : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83997736&postcount=1


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  • #5371
    LFCFan
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,821 Mod ✭✭✭✭LFCFan


    I finally got my install done. No issues. I'm at the further end of the line so not getting brilliant speeds but still almost 10 times better than I was getting :)

    Before

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    After

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