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Explain Eircom's Wholesale Terminology

  • 12-03-2014 01:25PM
    #1
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Following on from my thread over in "Nets and Comms" ... Here

    I'm likely to be moving house soon and I need broadband for work so I'm trying to figure out what Eircom's terminology for each exchange means on their whole sale website. Each exchange has a Yes or No answer to the following six parameters:

    Ethernet (WEIL)
    Ethernet (WEIL local)
    Ethernet (WSEA)
    Reach Nodes (WSEA)
    APT Nodes (WSEA)
    Broadband (BMB)

    I'd very much appreciate if one of you knowledgable folk could explain to mean how each one of those terms relates to the ADSL, ADSL2 and VDSL (efibre) that I understand!!

    Thanks a mill!


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


    Drift wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Following on from my thread over in "Nets and Comms" ... Here

    I'm likely to be moving house soon and I need broadband for work so I'm trying to figure out what Eircom's terminology for each exchange means on their whole sale website. Each exchange has a Yes or No answer to the following six parameters:

    Ethernet (WEIL)
    Ethernet (WEIL local)
    Ethernet (WSEA)
    Reach Nodes (WSEA)
    APT Nodes (WSEA)
    Broadband (BMB)

    I'd very much appreciate if one of you knowledgable folk could explain to mean how each one of those terms relates to the ADSL, ADSL2 and VDSL (efibre) that I understand!!

    Thanks a mill!


    The only one that applies here is Broadband BMB, the rest are other services that they supply


  • #3
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    Thanks bealtine

    Does that mean that I can't tell from these descriptors if the exchange has ADSL or ADSL2+ ?


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


    Drift wrote: »
    Does that mean that I can't tell from these descriptors if the exchange has ADSL or ADSL2+ ?

    nope...

    but this might help : http://irelandoffline.org/mapbeta/
    It may not be completely upto date but it'll give you some idea


  • #5
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    Thanks again.

    I've actually been using that map a lot. I was just hoping to glean extra information from eircoms site.

    Aw well!!


  • #6
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    PS: So short of ringing eircom there is no definite way to confirm if a given exchange has ADSL 2+ or not?


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  • #7
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,058 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Drift wrote: »
    PS: So short of ringing eircom there is no definite way to confirm if a given exchange has ADSL 2+ or not?

    Well this map is very accurate and shows the capabilities of the exchange:

    http://irelandoffline.org/mapbeta/


  • #8
    allen175
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭allen175


    What area are you looking at moving into and i will do abit of digging and find out if the exchange is ADSL or ADSL2+ and try give an estimate on the speeds available.


  • #9
    crawler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭crawler


    Most providers can check by address, in particular if there was a previous phone line installed (in situ)


  • #10
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    Hi guys,

    Thanks a million for all the help.

    Allen175 - I'm going to take you up on your kind offer and send you a pm if that's ok.


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