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

Cheerful Spring · 31-10-2014 11:18PM

Can anyone tell me what kind of speeds i am likely to get i am 486 metres away from a planned cabinet? I have a rough idea. but interested in knowing for sure!

Eircom has set a date for Spring/ Summer 2015 for me.

Excited never expected Fibre to come available this far out in the countryside. Nobody would have believed it a few years ago.

dalta5billion · 31-10-2014 11:40PM

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what kind of speeds i am likely to get i am 486 metres away from a planned cabinet? I have a rough idea. but interested in knowing for sure!

Eircom has set a date for Spring/ Summer 2015 for me.

Excited never expected Fibre to come available this far out in the countryside. Nobody would have believed it a few years ago.

I am 450-500m from my cabinet (based on the path of the Eircom manholes). Initially I got 70Mbps, but as the line wasn't vectored, this reduced to 50Mbps for about a month. However I now get 80Mbps, as vectoring was recently enabled.

bigcarmouse · 12-11-2014 12:41AM

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what kind of speeds i am likely to get i am 486 metres away from a planned cabinet? I have a rough idea. but interested in knowing for sure!

Eircom has set a date for Spring/ Summer 2015 for me.

Excited never expected Fibre to come available this far out in the countryside. Nobody would have believed it a few years ago.

dont get your hopes up....our fibre is still delayed...8 months and counting...

Nolars · 13-11-2014 02:11PM

http://www.eircom.net/efibreinfo/map they have updated the map

yuloni · 13-11-2014 02:29PM

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Nolars · 13-11-2014 02:31PM

yuloni wrote: »

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Ya I think most of them are, well the ones I checked anyhow. Its just a matter of who gets it within these areas now and who doesnt.

raytaxi · 13-11-2014 02:34PM

Sure I'm in a live area, 2 cabinets went live and so far only 60 houses can get it.
With no expected date for the rest of the houses, depending on which of eircoms sites I use to check my number its not even in area where efibre is available. Sales don't even have a clue as to when it will be available :mad:

doney84 · 13-11-2014 06:28PM

raytaxi wrote: »

Sure I'm in a live area, 2 cabinets went live and so far only 60 houses can get it.
With no expected date for the rest of the houses, depending on which of eircoms sites I use to check my number its not even in area where efibre is available. Sales don't even have a clue as to when it will be available :mad:

Hi raytaxi, going by your previous posts in relation to efibre, I take it where in the same area where these two cabinets went live last week. Can I ask how do you know about 60 houses can get it because I have tried a few different addresses (using the different estates) from one end of the crossroads to the other and none appear to have efibre available???

Forest Demon · 13-11-2014 11:20PM

Pushed forward another month for the sixth month in a row :mad:

Roll on Vodafone and ESB! I never would have signed up with Eircom if it was not for the promised upgrade to fibre. My first time with Eircom in years and my last as soon as another option comes available.

ItHurtsWhenIP · 14-11-2014 06:18PM

I live in real rural Tipperary and I know that my exchange is not to be eFibred until 2016, nor is there a Fibre cab anywhere in the vicinity. The IoffL map tells me these things. :rolleyes:

Looking at the Eircom map - X marks the spot.

However, if I put in my address into the checker it gives me a result that my house is ready to go!!!

The word I have blanked out on this result image, is actually a large area with dozens of houses in it and not a specific house address.

I did try a few other area names in the vicinity and none of them were showing as being ready to go.

Bah!!!

martiin · 14-11-2014 09:17PM

Main Street Mallow:
eFibre is not available yet in your area however let us alert you when it's available.

crap!

ED E · 14-11-2014 09:45PM

MMFITWGDV wrote: »

I live in real rural Tipperary and I know that my exchange is not to be eFibred until 2016, nor is there a Fibre cab anywhere in the vicinity. The IoffL map tells me these things. :rolleyes:

Looking at the Eircom map - X marks the spot.

However, if I put in my address into the checker it gives me a result that my house is ready to go!!!

The word I have blanked out on this result image, is actually a large area with dozens of houses in it and not a specific house address.

I did try a few other area names in the vicinity and none of them were showing as being ready to go.

Bah!!!

Use fibrerollout.ie not eircom.net

notahappycamper · 14-11-2014 10:42PM

My cab is due to go live in December. I am wondering is vectoring automatically enabled on all the new cabs being rolled out or does this happen after as I am being quoted a max download of 80mb and thought I would be higher?

Thanks...

ED E · 14-11-2014 10:53PM

Its turned on on all cabs that don't require NLV, so as long as there isn't another vdsl cab within 30 or 40ft then it should be vectored from the get go.

Prequal figures can be wrong, wait until you're installed to see.

marno21 · 15-11-2014 01:20PM

I presume all the new exchanges added are primarily exchange based and will be quicker? My exchange is on the list on the planned list on fibrerollout.ie altho there's no date for it yet. So I presume it will be included in the next swathe (after Apr-Jun 15) as most of the exchanges around it will have fibre after that date.

jd · 15-11-2014 01:22PM

notahappycamper wrote: »

My cab is due to go live in December. I am wondering is vectoring automatically enabled on all the new cabs being rolled out or does this happen after as I am being quoted a max download of 80mb and thought I would be higher?

Thanks...

Non vectored cabs have a max download of 70 mb, so yip, you are on a vectored cab

ItHurtsWhenIP · 15-11-2014 03:22PM

ED E wrote: »

Use fibrerollout.ie not eircom.net

Thanks - and the result is ... <drum roll> ... Bah! Bah!! and Bah!!!

:(

Ould Mr Brennan · 15-11-2014 03:28PM

MMFITWGDV wrote: »

Thanks - and the result is ... <drum roll> ... Bah! Bah!! and Bah!!!
:(

Same for me. Just did a speedtest and my ping is over 300ms with Eircom. I'd be better off with 3g

raytaxi · 15-11-2014 04:36PM

Notahappycamper how did you find out your cab was going live ?
Mine is showing up as live (on wholesale map)yet there is no way to order or even time frame for order. Sales don't even know about it. Eircom on boards say December and wholesale map is only for wholesale customers.

notahappycamper · 16-11-2014 06:52AM

raytaxi wrote: »

Notahappycamper how did you find out your cab was going live ?
Mine is showing up as live (on wholesale map)yet there is no way to order or even time frame for order. Sales don't even know about it. Eircom on boards say December and wholesale map is only for wholesale customers.

I switched to Vodafone from Sky recently and put my no. into their line checker and it said up to 100mb. I then rang them and they said I could place the fibre order on 10th December. They said I would get 80mb download. The Eircom line checker I used confirmed same although I thought I would be closer to the 100mb as my line is about 250-300 metres from cab - line is on overhead poles and not underground for the most part.

Manc Red · 17-11-2014 08:26PM

Still no sign of anything happening with direct feed customers.

Also is eircom now throttling their service for the likes of YouTube? Sites load fine but videos are painfully slow to load.

Nolars · 17-11-2014 08:49PM

Manc Red wrote: »

Still no sign of anything happening with direct feed customers.

Also is eircom now throttling their service for the likes of YouTube? Sites load fine but videos are painfully slow to load.

They have listed exchanges starting from February for vdsl.

http://www.eircom.net/efibreinfo/map

grbear · 17-11-2014 10:50PM

Looking at the fibre rollout site it says I'm 3.5km from the planned cabinet upgrade as the crow flies.

Will fibre being available in my area offer any benefit to me at all?

degsie · 17-11-2014 11:29PM

Nolars wrote: »

They have listed exchanges starting from February for vdsl.

http://www.eircom.net/efibreinfo/map

How do you get to see the list of DF exchanges on that link? I can't see it. Thanks.

MBSnr · 18-11-2014 11:15AM

degsie wrote: »

How do you get to see the list of DF exchanges on that link? I can't see it. Thanks.

Best example is any rural area in red (Apr - Jun '15) will have a central exchange and no cabinets listed on the whenandwhere site - that's probably what he is referring to.

BigMoose · 18-11-2014 11:43AM

I assume all listed on that map with _E01 are actually exchanges with direct fed lines. E.g. WLW1_E01 is new on this map and appears to be the wicklow exchange, not a new cab as such.

ED E · 18-11-2014 12:15PM

Correct, _XXXA refers to a cabinet paired to a CCP Cab. _E001 refers to the exchange based DSLAMs that are planned.

Ah-Watch · 25-11-2014 08:46PM

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3937742749.png

On a fixed profile 80down 20 up with Vodafone and get the above results. Not at all bad IMO

markmurphy · 28-12-2014 12:05AM

is Christmas over yet?

Fiber cab live in early jan! ordered and all!
18-25 meg !! and 5+ uploads!! says the checker..

Is the eircom checker fairly correct?

come on......!!

approx 760m away.
Have 9 down and 0.6 up. The up will really help the speed.

Bagenalstown area.

Mark.

raytaxi · 28-12-2014 12:45AM

Markmurph can i ask who your going with ? My cabinet goes live on 15 January and I was told can't order until that date.

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

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