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Eir urban FTTH

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  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    lotas wrote: »
    Just checked and my EirCode shows that 1Gb/s will be available soon... I had an order in with Eir Business since March, and it was canceled last month (they said it was not going to be availabe, full stop...) but your site is showing "Available soon"... Do you know something I dont?

    I think the question is: does Martin know something eir don't? And the answer is: probably.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭lotas


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    I think the question is: does Martin know something eir don't? And the answer is: probably.

    Well, given Eir (business) and (Open)Eir and KN Networks didnt talk to each other and screwed up the install, and ended up canceling the whole order... my guess is no one knows...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,167 ✭✭✭shanec1928


    lotas wrote: »
    Well, given Eir (business) and (Open)Eir and KN Networks didnt talk to each other and screwed up the install, and ended up canceling the whole order... my guess is no one knows...
    eir business are a joke.. I’ve never had an account manager ask me to send on the contract as they couldn’t “find” it. You may have dodged a bullet!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    I used to be with Eir Business back in the early 2000's and it was a disaster. My ADSL got upgraded to 3 megs and I presumed my plan was the same as the residential ones in terms of speeds. When Eir upgraded everyone to 5 and then 7, I was still stuck on 3 and when I enquired they said I was on an old legacy business plan and that in order to get higher speeds I'd have to revert to a residential plan, so I did. It was an absolute mess.


  • Company Representative Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Airwire: MartinL


    lotas wrote: »
    Just checked and my EirCode shows that 1Gb/s will be available soon... I had an order in with Eir Business since March, and it was canceled last month (they said it was not going to be availabe, full stop...) but your site is showing "Available soon"... Do you know something I dont?

    Available soon means, that the Eircode now has been indexed for FTTH by OpenEIR. Typically it will become available in 1-3 months, sometimes 6 months.

    There have been exceptions, where they backtracked, but the majority of these premises will be fibre enabled soon.

    And hey .. we work of the same data as any other operator, we just dig a bit deeper than most.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭Stephen Strange


    And hey .. we work of the same data as any other operator, we just dig a bit deeper than most.

    I can attest to this. I had ftth install issues recently, sorted within 24 hours. Having previously worked for a different ISP, with a different provider it could have gone on for weeks/months


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    FYI for anybody still tracking such, ftth being installed in Ballina — on the Killala Road cables are going in the ducting placed ages ago and polls being replaced.

    On a personal note: My luck with internet connectivity has massively improved since last posting on boards about it, but still fingers crossed that they actually include my edge-of-town estate in the rollout.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,131 ✭✭✭John mac


    monument wrote: »
    FYI for anybody still tracking such, ftth being installed in Ballina — on the Killala Road cables are going in the ducting placed ages ago and polls being replaced.
    .
    yea saw they were on it on Sunday too .


  • Company Representative Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Airwire: MartinL


    We have updated the database for OpenEIR FTTC/FTTH today.

    It can be found at https://www.airwire.ie/avail


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    BArra wrote: »
    took a snap while they had one manhole open

    blueish tinge duct cable
    black/yellow duct cable

    Looks like you're tracking the install as much as me.

    THere was an OpenEir engineer out looking at phone lines the other day, I checked in the manhole and we also had those black/yellow cables in there.

    Today KN were back out with lots of orange tubing/wiring - not sure what that's for? They also had a big coil of blue wire as well.

    So I guess this is still ducting / blowing in and we still need to wait for splicing.

    This is all underground, including DPs, as they don't seem to need to go on poles.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Still spooled loose outside my house (since April) but they are going around the town terminating from what i have seen so good chance they will do mine in the coming weeks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭YellowBucket


    I’ve given up on any hope of getting beyond 50meg FTTC around here. My street in Cork City is very close to the city centre, but has been bypassed by the cable companies over the years, Siro had us on a build list then removed us again without explanation - there’s no longer any timeline for the street and I would suspect Eir might get around to it in 2030.

    Seems like 5G wireless might be the only future for fast broadband around here.

    Before FTTC, most of my neighbours had been moving to WISPs because the ADSL2 options were often bad due to the way the underground phone cables route. We are only 2km from one of the big Eir exchanges, but the lines were electrically rating as over 4km in terms of attenuation.

    The VDSL2 is 1.1km to the cabinet.

    Looks like we are a lost cause. Edge of a city centre but would get better broadband in the back of beyond.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,523 ✭✭✭joe123


    I’ve given up on any hope of getting beyond 50meg FTTC around here. My street in Cork City is very close to the city centre, but has been bypassed by the cable companies over the years, Siro had us on a build list then removed us again without explanation - there’s no longer any timeline for the street and I would suspect Eir might get around to it in 2030.

    Seems like 5G wireless might be the only future for fast broadband around here.

    Before FTTC, most of my neighbours had been moving to WISPs because the ADSL2 options were often bad due to the way the underground phone cables route. We are only 2km from one of the big Eir exchanges, but the lines were electrically rating as over 4km in terms of attenuation.

    The VDSL2 is 1.1km to the cabinet.

    Looks like we are a lost cause. Edge of a city centre but would get better broadband in the back of beyond.

    I would give my left hand for 50Mb speeds.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭YellowBucket


    joe123 wrote: »
    I would give my left hand for 50Mb speeds.


    The fact that there are those with worse speeds still doesn't mean that it's great by any international standards or that it's all that practical for heavy use.
    I mean, it's like having a access to a pair of roller skates vs a bike, they're still not comparable to a high speed train.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    The fact that there are those with worse speeds still doesn't mean that it's great by any international standards or that it's all that practical for heavy use.
    I mean, it's like having a access to a pair of roller skates vs a bike, they're still not comparable to a high speed train.

    50Mb is pretty decent. That is two 4k Netflix streams at the same time or about 5 to 6 HD video streams. That would be considered pretty heavy usage, really not bad at all.

    Having said that, you will most likely be upgraded to FTTH at some stage over the next few years as part of Eir's urban FTTH rollout.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    I was looking at a holiday home and best speed is 24mbit and that alone prob kills it as an option. In the work from home world FTTH will add value to some property.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,167 ✭✭✭shanec1928


    Rew wrote: »
    I was looking at a holiday home and best speed is 24mbit and that alone prob kills it as an option. In the work from home world FTTH will add value to some property.
    There would be near zero reasons why you couldn’t work from home on those speeds.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Rew wrote: »
    I was looking at a holiday home and best speed is 24mbit and that alone prob kills it as an option. In the work from home world FTTH will add value to some property.

    24meg would be fine for most people working from home unless there is large file uploads involved, is that ADSL or VDSL? If it's ADSL then the upload speed would be unbearably slow for uploading files as the upload wouldn't be much more than 1 meg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    Gonzo wrote: »
    24meg would be fine for most people working from home unless there is large file uploads involved, is that ADSL or VDSL? If it's ADSL then the upload speed would be unbearably slow for uploading files as the upload wouldn't be much more than 1 meg.
    Struggling with 25mb upload speeds to upload work videos. Even 50mb would be too tight for comfort.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭YellowBucket


    You really notice it when you have to deal with large files. I regularly have to upload commercial very high res photography and video and it takes forever.

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    It’s adequate if you want to just do some basic web browsing and basic media consumption. For serious home office it’s pretty slow. Cloud-based file sharing and all of that is really slow.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Gonzo wrote: »
    24meg would be fine for most people working from home unless there is large file uploads involved, is that ADSL or VDSL? If it's ADSL then the upload speed would be unbearably slow for uploading files as the upload wouldn't be much more than 1 meg.

    Yeah I work in tech so I know what would work out and what won't. Gonna have a look anyway and see what the mobile service is like.

    I noticed fibre in some small tourist towns in Wexford few weeks back and my of relatives in fairly remote parts of west cork have FTTH now, interesting to see how rural broadband goes over the next year or two. Some places aren't going to be going back to offices anytime soon (if ever).


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    KOR101 wrote: »
    Struggling with 25mb upload speeds to upload work videos. Even 50mb would be too tight for comfort.

    those video files must be huge and not compressed!
    sounds like 1000/100 is the plan for you!

    I still reckon OpenEir and now Siro are a bit stingy on the uploads, granted most people don't need the uploads to be as fast as they are but there are people like yourself who need them to be higher than they are. Siro was giving a suitable download/upload ratio but they rolled that back to the same values more or less as OpenEir, no idea why. The advantage that Siro had over OpenEir when it comes to FTTH is no longer there.

    We are unlikely to see uploads increase any time soon, possibly for years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    Gonzo wrote: »
    those video files must be huge and not compressed!
    sounds like 1000/100 is the plan for you!

    I still reckon OpenEir and now Siro are a bit stingy on the uploads, granted most people don't need the uploads to be as fast as they are but there are people like yourself who need them to be higher than they are. Siro was giving a suitable download/upload ratio but they rolled that back to the same values more or less as OpenEir, no idea why. The advantage that Siro had over OpenEir when it comes to FTTH is no longer there.

    We are unlikely to see uploads increase any time soon, possibly for years.
    Not so huge, but lots and lots of them. And I backup the project files to Onedrive. It's more a case of wanting the work day over and then battling slow uploads and often flaky browsers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭user1842


    OpenEir now pumping in fibre in Ballina, Rockwell estate I believe (KN still working on ducting in the town). This rollout will also cover a good few NBI houses, apparently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    user1842 wrote: »
    OpenEir now pumping in fibre in Ballina, Rockwell estate I believe (KN still working on ducting in the town). This rollout will also cover a good few NBI houses, apparently.

    We have something similar happening where we are in Galway.

    My only worry is any time I speak to a KN or Eir engineer on site they seem to say there's a few distribution points, but they won't service all houses.

    They've been out at least 4 times in the last 2 weeks doing various work, although exactly what I'm not sure.

    SURELY they wouldn't leave us in a situation where not all houses in the same estate could get it?

    Hard to get proper info from Eir unfortunately.

    I guess we'll find out in a few months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    KOR101 wrote: »
    Not so huge, but lots and lots of them. And I backup the project files to Onedrive. It's more a case of wanting the work day over and then battling slow uploads and often flaky browsers.

    Similar for me, lots of uploading to be done which is why I've love the 100mb.

    Not really worried about having 500mb or 1000mb down, it's the upload I'm most concerned about.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Similar for me, lots of uploading to be done which is why I've love the 100mb.

    Not really worried about having 500mb or 1000mb down, it's the upload I'm most concerned about.

    With Siro and OpenEir now offering max 100 upload on their most expensive resident plans and Virgin Media just 50, it's going to be perhaps a few years before we start seeing uploads going north of 100 without having to pay several 100 euros per month if you want uploads in excess of 100.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭user1842



    SURELY they wouldn't leave us in a situation where not all houses in the same estate could get it?

    Hard to get proper info from Eir unfortunately.

    God I hope that is not the case and I also could not get any info from the OpenEir guys I spoke too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭z0oT


    Is there any significance in these kind of markings on the "Eircom" labelled manole covers? I noticed them today, but I'm almost certain they weren't there a number of weeks ago.

    We're currently just about to move into a new build (should close next week), these manholes are just outside the new house. It's an estate on the outskirts of Limerick city that has been extended. All of the existing estate is currently setup with Eir & Siro FTTH (according to online checkers), some of the houses also have Virgin available to them.

    The newly built square with 16 houses (of which we're one) currently isn't yet setup for either, we would be 10-20m away from the houses that are connected. The million dollar question is when I can expect us to be connected?

    We just got 1Gbps FTTH in rural Tipperary last month (where we're living currently), and I'll be moving back to 4G while I'm waiting to be connected in Limerick which is a bit of a sickener.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    user1842 wrote: »
    God I hope that is not the case and I also could not get any info from the OpenEir guys I spoke too.

    Yeah, it has me a bit worried!

    One of the KN engineers said "not everyone will want it anyway".

    I'm not really clued up on the work involved to get more distribution points in.

    If there's already some here but not enough (they're underground), I wonder how much extra work on top of the ducting and general fibre blowing etc it would take to get more DPs.

    I'm hoping it's all worry over nothing and the whole estate will be serviced at the same time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    Gonzo wrote: »
    With Siro and OpenEir now offering max 100 upload on their most expensive resident plans and Virgin Media just 50, it's going to be perhaps a few years before we start seeing uploads going north of 100 without having to pay several 100 euros per month if you want uploads in excess of 100.

    That's fine by me to be honest.

    100mb through fibre vs 10-15~ through fixed wireless is a HUGE upgrade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭user1842


    z0oT wrote: »
    Is there any significance in these kind of markings on the "Eircom" labelled manole covers? I noticed them today, but I'm almost certain they weren't there a number of weeks ago.

    This text just appeared on an Eir manhole outside my parents house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    z0oT wrote: »
    Is there any significance in these kind of markings on the "Eircom" labelled manole covers? I noticed them today, but I'm almost certain they weren't there a number of weeks ago.

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    At a guess those are cab codes, OEs systems ID them by three digits counting upwards. Usually 001 to 060 ish in bigger exchanges. With VDSL there are cab pairs thus the A.

    It may just be handy for fault finding works if there are two cabs servicing the same streets. Babihrse would be the one to know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    z0oT wrote: »
    Is there any significance in these kind of markings on the "Eircom" labelled manole covers? I noticed them today, but I'm almost certain they weren't there a number of weeks ago.

    We're currently just about to move into a new build (should close next week), these manholes are just outside the new house. It's an estate on the outskirts of Limerick city that has been extended. All of the existing estate is currently setup with Eir & Siro FTTH (according to online checkers), some of the houses also have Virgin available to them.

    The newly built square with 16 houses (of which we're one) currently isn't yet setup for either, we would be 10-20m away from the houses that are connected. The million dollar question is when I can expect us to be connected?

    We just got 1Gbps FTTH in rural Tipperary last month (where we're living currently), and I'll be moving back to 4G while I'm waiting to be connected in Limerick which is a bit of a sickener.


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    It means the 7th dp on the a switch comes through to that manhole the 8th in the next and so on the dp will usually be 003007a the a denotes that they'd all be going back to the same point in the splitter further on you'll see them start over on a b circuit. If you plug a fibre cable in 007a or 008a there's a fair chance it'll work and lock on. However if you plug someone who's meant to be on an a but plug them into a b there's no chance of it synching up. The numbers are just telling the people installing the boxes which box to put the dps


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,169 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    someone who's meant to be on an a but plug them into a



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    I have seen an area where they ran out of ports. The resident told me they had been trying to get fibre for ages but provider kept sending out orders for copper lines. It was a new ftth only estate. Checked airwires checker and saw no ports available
    Checked dp and all ports were full. So I explained why provider was likely they kept sending out copper order because they couldn't fulfill a fibre order. The homeowner then told me that there were originally meant to be less houses in the estate but after all were built 3 more that weren't on original plans just got added afterwards which might explain the lack of spare ports.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭z0oT


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    It means the 7th dp on the a switch comes through to that manhole the 8th in the next and so on the dp will usually be 003007a the a denotes that they'd all be going back to the same point in the splitter further on you'll see them start over on a b circuit. If you plug a fibre cable in 007a or 008a there's a fair chance it'll work and lock on. However if you plug someone who's meant to be on an a but plug them into a b there's no chance of it synching up. The numbers are just telling the people installing the boxes which box to put the dps

    To my knowledge those manhole coverings had no markings 2/3 weeks ago.

    I know time frames are impossible to call, but in terms of the steps that have to be taken before one can order FTTH on that street, how far along the process is it likely to be at this stage?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    z0oT wrote: »
    To my knowledge those manhole coverings had no markings 2/3 weeks ago.

    I know time frames are impossible to call, but in terms of the steps that have to be taken before one can order FTTH on that street, how far along the process is it likely to be at this stage?

    I'm not sure anyone knows. Can be up to 6 months
    They tend to get done in tranches so if one part of an estate is getting built and another was built and finished with residents having moved in six months ago and they just went live you can assume the same timescale from when theirs started months before. Lot of builders will only build one strip then after recouping their costs move onto the next rinse and repeat. I know that explanation is a bit murky but I didn't get much sleep and can't clear it up any more than that right now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭z0oT


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    I'm not sure anyone knows. Can be up to 6 months
    They tend to get done in tranches so if one part of an estate is getting built and another was built and finished with residents having moved in six months ago and they just went live you can assume the same timescale from when theirs started months before. Lot of builders will only build one strip then after recouping their costs move onto the next rinse and repeat. I know that explanation is a bit murky but I didn't get much sleep and can't clear it up any more than that right now.

    No problem - thanks for your posts. It's an area I don't know a lot about so I am curious.

    Just to give context, the estate looks like this. The houses I've circled in green are already connected for FTTH having been built 4/5 years prior.

    The area in red is the newly built area. Numbers 1-6 in the new area were finished mid last year andhad people move into them around then, but they're not connected yet. Numbers 7-16 have only just been completed in the last 2/3 weeks. I always assumed the whole area (Numbers 1-16) would have to be finished before there would be any movement on FTTH in the newly built area.

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    At least, it's refreshing that there's now some signs of early activity in the area.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    I have seen an area where they ran out of ports. The resident told me they had been trying to get fibre for ages but provider kept sending out orders for copper lines. It was a new ftth only estate. Checked airwires checker and saw no ports available
    Checked dp and all ports were full. So I explained why provider was likely they kept sending out copper order because they couldn't fulfill a fibre order. The homeowner then told me that there were originally meant to be less houses in the estate but after all were built 3 more that weren't on original plans just got added afterwards which might explain the lack of spare ports.

    Not what I wanted to hear....although it wouldn't surprise me!

    It's a bit of a weird one where the estate has been here 10 years, but when we bought 2.5 years ago it was a brand new house, was it was just a shell for years the previous 6-7 years.

    Eir did some work in the estate last year, but not sure exactly what they did, so it's hard to tell when the DPs were put in.

    Interestingly the DPs I know about are in between my house, and the newest houses in the estate (which were built AFTER the original estate was finished). So when I moved in they didn't even exist, not even a shell.

    They have worked on other manholes in the estate near older houses, so I'm hoping that means there are other DPs, but it's hard to say for certain.

    Would be gutted if only the newest houses could get it, and the rest of the estate was left with nothing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    Not what I wanted to hear....although it wouldn't surprise me!

    It's a bit of a weird one where the estate has been here 10 years, but when we bought 2.5 years ago it was a brand new house, was it was just a shell for years the previous 6-7 years.

    Eir did some work in the estate last year, but not sure exactly what they did, so it's hard to tell when the DPs were put in.

    Interestingly the DPs I know about are in between my house, and the newest houses in the estate (which were built AFTER the original estate was finished). So when I moved in they didn't even exist, not even a shell.

    They have worked on other manholes in the estate near older houses, so I'm hoping that means there are other DPs, but it's hard to say for certain.

    Would be gutted if only the newest houses could get it, and the rest of the estate was left with nothing.

    They may have started works for the 1 - 6 DP and then only gotten to the ducting stage for the rest but it's reasonable to assume from how you said it that they would have all the new ones at the same stage.
    As the only one who can tell you for certain when it's ready is the man putting the light into them.
    At the least I can say it'll have to be two DPS one for each side of the road as the max number of ports that can fit in one is 12


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    They may have started works for the 1 - 6 DP and then only gotten to the ducting stage for the rest but it's reasonable to assume from how you said it that they would have all the new ones at the same stage.
    As the only one who can tell you for certain when it's ready is the man putting the light into them.
    At the least I can say it'll have to be two DPS one for each side of the road as the max number of ports that can fit in one is 12

    There's about 75+ houses in the estate in total!

    But again, hard to know exactly how many DPs etc are under the ground around the whole estate.

    Will try and find out how much more work has to be done, then I'll just cross my fingers that my Eircode shows up on the availability check as available soon...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Quick question, what sort of time frame would you expect from engineers laying fibre to the kerb before they start actually selling FTTH.

    The engineers working about 4 weeks ago said they were doing FTTK and companies should shortly be offering FTTH but as I said "how long" do people reckon shortly is?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭vqr2a0kg3lywos


    There's about 75+ houses in the estate in total!

    But again, hard to know exactly how many DPs etc are under the ground around the whole estate.

    Will try and find out how much more work has to be done, then I'll just cross my fingers that my Eircode shows up on the availability check as available soon...

    Worst fears confirmed.

    Ours was a "new" house 2.5 years ago, but the shell of the house was here for about 8-10 years along with rest of the estate.

    They are only putting in FTTH for 12 houses just to the side of my house, about a 20 second walk. And they're also doing another 4 around the back which were built after I move in from scratch (no shells).

    Gutted!

    16 houses out of about 75+ are getting FTTH, rest of us can't even get FTTC properly :)


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Quick question, what sort of time frame would you expect from engineers laying fibre to the kerb before they start actually selling FTTH.

    The engineers working about 4 weeks ago said they were doing FTTK and companies should shortly be offering FTTH but as I said "how long" do people reckon shortly is?

    6 months from seeing them first seems to be normal enough


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Rew wrote: »
    6 months from seeing them first seems to be normal enough

    Another 3 months or so then, maybe I'll get it in as an Xmas pressie :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,036 ✭✭✭BArra


    Have more action in my area today after weeks of nothing, several KN/Circet crews with a small digger

    Excuse the nosey norris work from home detail but stuck on rubbish fixed wireless for years...

    15th July - KN/Circet team that were installing underground fibre ducting, with some poles having a black ducting cable spooled off quarter way up the pole
    29th July - Eir crew out replacing telephone poles
    26th August - Several KN/Circet crews with a mini-digger fixing two collapsed ducting pipes, asked one of them and they said the ducts are now completely clear to the interconnect

    Think the next steps are then

    - Crew to blow the fibre through the fibre ducting
    - Another crew to install the distribution points on poles and splice ?
    - Final step, provision at main exchange so that customers can order ?

    The journey continues..


  • Company Representative Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Airwire: MartinL


    We have updated the database for OpenEIR FTTC/FTTH today.

    It can be found at https://www.airwire.ie/avail


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭z0oT


    z0oT wrote: »
    The area in red is the newly built area. Numbers 1-6 in the new area were finished mid last year andhad people move into them around then, but they're not connected yet.

    Numbers 7-16 have only just been completed in the last 2/3 weeks. I always assumed the whole area (Numbers 1-16) would have to be finished before there would be any movement on FTTH in the newly built area.

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    At least, it's refreshing that there's now some signs of early activity in the area.

    An update - The online checker on Eir's website now says FTTH is available in numbers 15 & 16, but not in numbers 1-14. Some of the other house addresses don't even pop up in their system.

    It's a bit bizarre, given those two were just built in the last 6 or so months, and their eircodes would be the newest. Airwire's checker which is generally the go to checker doesn't even recognise those eircodes.

    I suspect it'll be corrected as the eircodes and various databases are updated. Is this a sign that the fibre has actually been laid in the estate?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭user1842


    OpenEir are now pumping fibre in the Garrankeel/Belleek area outside of Ballina. OpenEir guy said the roll-out is nearly finished, just the DPs to be done.

    Not sure if this is the correct forum as my parents house (where OpenEir has now pumped fibre too) is on the NBI roll-out (NBI guys were around last week saying they will cover my parents house) and it is 1.5km away from Ballina.

    I assume Eir are covering the Garrankeel/Belleek area as part of the Ballina urban roll-out, even though all houses are in the NBI roll-out (it is not shown as part of Eir's rural roll-out).


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