Eir Fibre Rollout Mapping

Alan4446 wrote: »

How close do you have to be to a cabinet for fibre? A cabin about 2km or so from my house is coming live on the 11th May and when I type my address in it says I'll be getting it on the 11th.

The limit for Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) is 2km or 1.5km if the cabinet is located at the exchange. The speed you get is distance dependant so at the 2km limit the speed will be around 7 Mbps down/1 Mbps up (see p.131 of this eir document).

Alan4446 wrote: »

I look at the map and there's a blue line from the cabinet to my house but will I not get it because I'm not close enough to the cabinet or are Eir just messing up on their projected dates?

The blue lines represent future planned Fibre to the Home (FTTH) rural fibre routes not FTTC. Hover over Rural Fibre Routes at the top of the map for a description.

Your local cab going live on the 11th uses the existing copper cable to your house to provide fibre broadband, in future they plan to run fibre optic cable direct to houses (FTTH) along the blue lines. The government's proposed NBP will pay for FTTH infrastructure for those beyond the blue lines.

The first rural FTTH locations were recently announced - http://www.openeir.ie/news/First-rural-FTTH-locations-announced/

After signing up a month ago on the dotted line for 45 fibre, I have a voice message today telling me it won't be available in my area for the forseeable future Not a good start so far Eir... Our exchange was green and 'live' on the map, and after checking today it's gone back to blue with an 'within the next 6 weeks' message.

Several others have been connected in the area so I'm assuming they did those ones first as they were in more populated areas and have now moved on.

Ive a question. Since I moved house in December Ive checked every few weeks on Eir site to see if I could get broadband. I used the address search as there is no landline here. It always came back stating they could not complete the check and to call Eir customer care. I did, several times and every time they told me that there was no internet available on my local exchange.

I checked last week and it said "Great news Eir Fibre is enabled in your area". So I checked the map and it still shows as being available within 6 weeks. I phoned Eir and they said that my exchange will be Fibre enabled on 25th May. I gave them my neighbours phone number and they said that their line is currently able to get NGB at 12Mb and that it would go up in speed once 25th May Fibre upgrade takes place.

They were not able to explain to me how it was that they said there was no broadband in the area, despite me phoning twice regarding it in the last couple of months. As far as I know, my neighbours house is about 5.5km from local exchange. 12Mb seems awfully fast for that distance from the exchange, I googled VDSL speed over distance and it should be much lower than 12Mb. So I looked on the map that was created for VDSL and it doesnt show any exchanges anywhere near here. I thought maybe there was some other smaller cabinet or something closer, which I hoped would mean perhaps the FTTC on 25th would result in faster speeds here. My understanding is that FTTC only really benefits those within 3km from the cabinet, maybe even closer for decent speeds as the drop off is rapid.

Is there anywhere I can see cabinets in my area without having to speak to Eir? They are beyond bad and only interested in sales.

TireeTerror wrote: »

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As far as I know, my neighbours house is about 5.5km from local exchange. 12Mb seems awfully fast for that distance from the exchange, I googled VDSL speed over distance and it should be much lower than 12Mb. So I looked on the map that was created for VDSL and it doesnt show any exchanges anywhere near here. I thought maybe there was some other smaller cabinet or something closer, which I hoped would mean perhaps the FTTC on 25th would result in faster speeds here. My understanding is that FTTC only really benefits those within 3km from the cabinet, maybe even closer for decent speeds as the drop off is rapid.
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eVDSL (unvectored from the exchange) has a range of 1.5KM - eir will not likely sell it to you beyond that.

VDSL (from a cabinet) and vectored eVDSL has a range of 2.0KM and at that range you would be on a 7/1Mbps profile.

While the signal may stretch a bit beyond 2KM, it would be unstable, so that's why they limit the ranges.

12Mb NGB = an exchange 2.5Km from you neighbour. It IS possible that your address is served 5.5KM from the east while he's served 2.5KM from the west depending on the local layout.

Do you mind posting which exchange it is?

Exchange Information for ST JOHNSTON Exchange Code: STJ
ADSL
General
Status
Not Enabled

VDSL
Jan-Mar'16

Exchange Information for CARRIGANS Exchange Code: CNS
ADSL
General
Enabled
Yes
DSL Service
Max speed 24Mb (ADSL2)

VDSL
Jan-Mar'16

So either its off STJ and thats recently received ADSL (NGB) or your neighbour is fed from CNS 3.8KM north east of it perhaps?


http://irelandoffline.org/map/#/home

ED E wrote: »

Has to be ordered, its a new product not an update on the existing.

Can you order off any provider once your fiber enabled or is it exclusive to Eir for a certain period?

ED E wrote: »

Any provider, its regulated to be that way.

Thanks

Hi all - "completion work in progress" and cabinets installed a few weeks back ....
Any idea typically how close that is to being available?

keith_d99 wrote: »

Hi all - "completion work in progress" and cabinets installed a few weeks back ....
Any idea typically how close that is to being available?

How long is a piece of string?? The exchange I'm waiting on has been like that since last summer!