Eir rural FTTH thread

Eir's FTTH is still looking very promising http://jrnl.ie/2803832

(typo at the end where it says 3 instead of 100,000 homes by March)

daraghwal wrote: »

Eir's FTTH is still looking very promising http://jrnl.ie/2803832

(typo at the end where it says 3 instead of 100,000 homes by March)

You mean this?

The immediate aim is to connect the next 300,000 homes and premises by March 2017.

Is that not indeed their aim? ..... to complete the 'blue-lines' roll out by March next year.

rob808 wrote: »

tbayers wrote: »

All ca

All cabinets and the exchange is fibre enabled and has been for quite a while. Just curious as we are max 600m from two fibre enabled cabinets. Just hoping there is enough room for us because going from 70/80mbps to <10 will be tough. I just signed up to Eir last week too to the all in package, fibre, mobile, evision etc. Man in shop said you should be connected and he was pretty convincing but not good enough. Still within cooling off period so might cancel until I know for sure what the story is!

I think your better of ring them and finding out or contact one of the Eir Rep on the board and ask.

Will do thanks

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Sorry ...... brain fart!

No idea what I was thinking .... or maybe I wasn't

It's a bank holiday Monday morning. I'll forgive you :P

Consonata wrote: »

What do you do when you are 3km from the cabinet? Is there anyway to benefit from better Internet. Currently on 0.75 down and would appreciate the fibre upgrade

No, nothing you can do only wait or change to some sort of wireless provider. It isn't 0.75 all the time is it? If it is there could be a fault. I am nearly the same distance and get much better than that during the day. Sometimes 5Mbps. Although at night I do get barely 1.

I get max 1.2 , min 0.45. It's frustrating because just down the road they have fibre. It's so close yet so far.

pegasus1 wrote: »

Has the http://fibrerollout.ie/ page been updated to a new look...sure looks it..

Yeah but most of it is still the same content with a bit of additional information on each county page

TireeTerror wrote: »

. My local exchange, which went live on 25th May, and the site said that, was then changed to work completing soon even though it is live. Pathetic crap really.

So... your exchange is *actually live* but you're really unhappy because a map hadn't been updated properly?

Im complaining because it does not say it is live. If I had not been looking at it every week for the last 6 months, I would check it and it would tell me it was NOT live. Not too difficult to understand.

As the crappy thing has not been vectored, only those within 1.5km can benefit from fibre, so its a load of crap anyway.

daraghwal wrote: »

Well at least your're looking at the bright side anyway.

The K&N installer who arrived at my house today took all of my humour away. He went "Its nearly 6km from the exchange, can you open up your gates again and let me out, Im not getting paid for this as I cannot install it as it wont work, Im away home."

This was after me receiving numerous reassurances I would get 12Mb and taking the day off work for the install.

Glad I paid €100 a few weeks back for this Imagine LTE knowing only too well it was highly unlikely I would get a service for the shower of sh1te that is Eir.

9726_9726 wrote: »

I spoke to a KN Networks installer yesterday and he said they were doing live FTTH installs in Waterfall, near Cork city. He told me of one install where they did 14 overhead spans fROM the DP to a residential house! He said they used almost 800m of cable.

He thought Eir should have failed it on the desktop survey but they did it anyway.

I'm astounded they accepted that work order.

daraghwal wrote: »

I emailed open eir to see whether or not I would be included in their FTTH rollout (blue line goes by my house but not my lane which is roughly 80m to my house from the road) and they said it hadn't been decided what distance they will go offroad so maybe all that still has to be ironed out. That was at the start of May. Still, looks like I'm safe enough if they're doing 800m!!

He said they kinda did it out of spite!

He did say that her driveway was long and growth in the path of the spans was more of an issue there than on the public road.

Seems to be the real headache with FTTH: the last 100m. See my post re Mount Oval on the 66 towns forum.

Also I know SIROs install contract ran into difficulty over on-prem duct issues, etc.

That's where things get really expensive, really fast and failure rates go up, putting the business model in jeopardy.

And this is the very beginning of the FTTH rollout! Awful lot of one off houses out there with all sorts of issues.....

9726_9726 wrote: »

He said they kinda did it out of spite!

He did say that her driveway was long and growth in the path of the spans was more of an issue there than on the public road.

Seems to be the real headache with FTTH: the last 100m. See my post re Mount Oval on the 66 towns forum.

Also I know SIROs install contract ran into difficulty over on-prem duct issues, etc.

That's where things get really expensive, really fast and failure rates go up, putting the business model in jeopardy.

The urban problems are much more unpredictable though as that case you reported shows. If an existing rural house has overhead cable, the difficulties are more predictable; like for instance going 800m off the road. They should have known about that at least.