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UTV Fibre

  • 16-05-2014 12:09AM
    #1
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I seem to recall UTV offering fibre in Ireland and only a few months ago one of their techs said it was available. It came available in my area today and when I called UTV they said they were not offering fibre due to a 'problem' and he had no idea when they would.

    Anybody any idea what the story is?


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  • #2
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Forgetting about UTV, check with Vodafone if Fibre is available in your area. You can check with their online checker.

    I think the "technical" problem is that UPC simply can't compete with the very low prices of Vodafones Fibre packages, so they never rolled it out.


  • #3
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    I'm in contract with UTV and they always supplied the best package when we shopped around.


  • #4
    D_BEAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭D_BEAR


    I have UTV fibre got it installed around november last year so they definitely do it.

    From UTV twitter feed "Still a few wholesale issues with fibre, we only want to offer the best possible service so
    we've stopped selling it for a short time. We only want the best for our customers! Thanks"


  • #5
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Doing a sky and waiting for the others to pay the installation fees? Maybe so.


  • #6
    bloodyhawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭bloodyhawk


    D_BEAR wrote: »
    I have UTV fibre got it installed around november last year so they definitely do it.

    From UTV twitter feed "Still a few wholesale issues with fibre, we only want to offer the best possible service so
    we've stopped selling it for a short time. We only want the best for our customers! Thanks"

    What ping times do you get with them? Do you mind posting speedtest results?


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  • #7
    D_BEAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭D_BEAR


    House is about 1600m from fibre cabinet so speed isn't great about twice speed of old dsl connection.

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    Pinging loadbalancer.boards.ie [89.234.66.108] with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=57
    Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=57
    Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=57
    Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=57

    Pinging www.google.com [74.125.24.103] with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
    Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
    Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
    Reply from 74.125.24.103: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=50


  • #8
    bloodyhawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭bloodyhawk


    Are they using the same technology as eircom, To bring fiber to the premises. ?


  • #9
    D_BEAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭D_BEAR


    They use the same fibre cabinets and cable to the house.
    The modem is different UTV use a Technicolor TG589vn v3 not sure what model Eircom use.


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