Greystones - eFibre (Eircom Fibre Roll-out)

red_bairn · 31-08-2015 03:23PM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

UPC fibre going into Rathdown Park this week.

How do you know that?

Shazerina · 31-08-2015 03:34PM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

UPC fibre going into Rathdown Park this week.

Not to all addresses in RP unfo. I got 2 notices in the door on Friday about an upgrade so I rang the freephone number today. Nothing available at my address still except old-fashioned cable TV. The agent had no news or details of any imminent improvements to this situation. So there must be similar problems in the estate for upc as there are for eircom, with some houses on the nice list and some on the naughty one!

Blandpebbles · 31-08-2015 04:14PM

Got a second leaflet in the door with direct agent mobile number. Rang it.

Basically current TV cables that run along house gutters being replaced with fibre. ESB and UPC already working away, my house by Wednesday.

loyatemu · 31-08-2015 04:29PM

the UPC upgrade is separate to what Eircom and Siro (ESB) are doing - it's all go at the moment. Might be a few months before the new UPC services are available to order - they have to upgrade the entire network in the town, the existing cable is 40 years old.

red_bairn · 31-08-2015 04:32PM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Got a second leaflet in the door with direct agent mobile number. Rang it.

Basically current TV cables that run along house gutters being replaced with fibre. ESB and UPC already working away, my house by Wednesday.

I would not take any advice from those sales agents. People went with Sales Agents advice for Eircom FTTC and they are now stuck in contracts still waiting on the product.

loyatemu · 31-08-2015 08:45PM

got home today and UPC have run the new cable on the front of the house (they also apparently cut off the water for half the town).

Blandpebbles · 31-08-2015 08:46PM

Not an agent but one of the team working in Rathdown this week. ESB are only involved to insulate power cables while UPC pulls new fibre.

red_bairn · 31-08-2015 09:20PM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Got a second leaflet in the door with direct agent mobile number. Rang it.

Basically current TV cables that run along house gutters being replaced with fibre. ESB and UPC already working away, my house by Wednesday.

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Not an agent but one of the team working in Rathdown this week. ESB are only involved to insulate power cables while UPC pulls new fibre.

Where abouts are you? That would mean they would need to set up their own FTTC at the top of the estate or on Rathdown Road.

loyatemu · 01-09-2015 08:39AM

red_bairn wrote: »

Where abouts are you? That would mean they would need to set up their own FTTC at the top of the estate or on Rathdown Road.

UPC's system is HFC (Docsis) rather than FTTC (VDSL), I'm not sure whether their headend kit (where the copper cable meets the fibre) is in cabs? (though they do seem to be installing some sort of on-street box at the bottom of Bellevue Rd this morning).

red_bairn · 01-09-2015 09:24AM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Got a second leaflet in the door with direct agent mobile number. Rang it.

Basically current TV cables that run along house gutters being replaced with fibre. ESB and UPC already working away, my house by Wednesday.

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Not an agent but one of the team working in Rathdown this week. ESB are only involved to insulate power cables while UPC pulls new fibre.

loyatemu wrote: »

UPC's system is HFC (Docsis) rather than FTTC (VDSL), I'm not sure whether their headend kit (where the copper cable meets the fibre) is in cabs? (though they do seem to be installing some sort of on-street box at the bottom of Bellevue Rd this morning).

Yeah, sorry, HFC. They use the coaxial to those cabinets.

Shazerina · 01-09-2015 12:28PM

loyatemu wrote: »

UPC's system is HFC (Docsis) rather than FTTC (VDSL), I'm not sure whether their headend kit (where the copper cable meets the fibre) is in cabs? (though they do seem to be installing some sort of on-street box at the bottom of Bellevue Rd this morning).

So.... Does that mean that if upc are in the estate for one house, they are there for all?

loyatemu · 01-09-2015 02:10PM

Shazerina wrote: »

So.... Does that mean that if upc are in the estate for one house, they are there for all?

I assume they're doing any house that is already connected to their (ancient) old system - do you have UPC cables on your house already? have they put a letter through your door about replacing them?

Alan_P · 01-09-2015 02:23PM

loyatemu wrote: »

I assume they're doing any house that is already connected to their (ancient) old system - do you have UPC cables on your house already? have they put a letter through your door about replacing them?

FWIW, I'm in Rathdown Park, and it said in the note I got that if you don't currently have UPC cabling, a representative will call and discuss installing it.

adam240610 · 01-09-2015 06:02PM

Anyone know anything about redford Park?

red_bairn · 01-09-2015 06:25PM

adam240610 wrote: »

Anyone know anything about redford Park?

Yeah, it's beside Rathdown Park.

adam240610 · 01-09-2015 06:27PM

red_bairn wrote: »

Yeah, it's beside Rathdown Park.

Quiet you haha

In terms of efibre or fibre and whatnot

Blandpebbles · 01-09-2015 06:55PM

All houses in Rathdown have UPC cables running along their gutters or the pipe as it used to be known. The connection into the house is needed if you don't have it already.

red_bairn · 01-09-2015 08:37PM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

All houses in Rathdown have UPC cables running along their gutters or the pipe as it used to be known. The connection into the house is needed if you don't have it already.

But do they require to install the UPC box like in newer homes or should the pipe suffice that goes to the telly?

loyatemu · 02-09-2015 08:22AM

red_bairn wrote: »

But do they require to install the UPC box like in newer homes

which box is this?

red_bairn · 02-09-2015 09:05AM

loyatemu wrote: »

which box is this?

loyatemu · 02-09-2015 10:39AM

red_bairn wrote: »

I'd imagine they'll put one of those in - it's just a termination unit for the cable.

Blandpebbles · 02-09-2015 02:14PM

Yes you will need a box.

External fibre run completed in my house and row today. Engineer says two weeks before its on and termination boxes can be fit as customer order.

Alun · 02-09-2015 02:25PM

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Yes you will need a box.

External fibre run completed in my house and row today. Engineer says two weeks before its on and termination boxes can be fit as customer order.

If you're talking about UPC it's NOT fibre, it's just copper coax cable as before. The only fibre in UPC's network is as far as their distribution cabinets.

Blandpebbles · 02-09-2015 02:38PM

You are correct. Engineer showed me the cabinet setup just now. Anyway now docsis 3 capable. I guess in advance of becoming Virgin Media.

loyatemu · 02-09-2015 02:51PM

2 weeks? Woohoo! - I was waiting for eFibre, but when it finally became available I could only get 25Mb so instead I've been waiting for FTTH - 240Mb from UPC will do nicely though, nobody really needs 1Gb.

Shazerina · 03-09-2015 05:35AM

Alan_P wrote: »

FWIW, I'm in Rathdown Park, and it said in the note I got that if you don't currently have UPC cabling, a representative will call and discuss installing it.

We don't have UPC but when I rang the number on that flyer I was told that we only had capacity for old style cable at our address. The guy on the phone had nothing to tell me re upgrades etc...

loyatemu · 03-09-2015 08:40AM

Shazerina wrote: »

We don't have UPC but when I rang the number on that flyer I was told that we only had capacity for old style cable at our address. The guy on the phone had nothing to tell me re upgrades etc...

wait a few weeks - Greystones is probably still marked as "unavailable" on their system (it certainly is on their website). If you're in any of the old parts of Greystones you probably do have UPC cables somewhere nearby - the whole town used cable TV up until the 90s.

Shazerina · 03-09-2015 09:14AM

loyatemu wrote: »

wait a few weeks - Greystones is probably still marked as "unavailable" on their system (it certainly is on their website). If you're in any of the old parts of Greystones you probably do have UPC cables somewhere nearby - the whole town used cable TV up until the 90s.

Will do. Thanks!

cdiv · 03-09-2015 12:22PM

I enquired with the UPC Boards reps and they told me the estate I'm in (Burnaby Heights) is planned for end of 2016, so it may be a while yet before they get the whole town covered...

Shazerina · 03-09-2015 12:24PM

cdiv wrote: »

I enquired with the UPC Boards reps and they told me the estate I'm in (Burnaby Heights) is planned for end of 2016, so it may be a while yet before they get the whole town covered...

I might do the same... Do I just look for upc on boards??!! (Pardon my ignorance!)

Greystones - eFibre (Eircom Fibre Roll-out)

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