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Eir Fibre Rollout Mapping

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  • #552
    Kromdar
    Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kromdar


    user5431 wrote: »
    how ya lads i need your help

    I have just had a look at the eFibre Rollout Plan map, and it shows all differnt colour greens to tell you if its now available, coming soon etc.

    The problem i have is that in my area on the map there is no green coloured at all, not even to tell me if its coming in 2014. so does this mean my area will not be getting Efibre?? Thanks efibre.png

    the "donaghmede" exchange up the road from me shows no green at all, yet there are at least 5 cabs already installed.
    conversely, there are areas covered by an exchange that are so rural [see donegal exchange] that i'm surprised if they even get DSL. so, yeah, maps mean nothing.


  • #553
    bealtine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    Kromdar wrote: »
    so, yeah, maps mean nothing.

    Which is one of the main reasons for the mapping effort...to produce a clear and accurate map of the cabinets


  • #554
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Added the 3 cabs I found in Enniscorthy,was told there are 2 more to go live next week,didn't get a chance to check one & couldn't see the other as I think it's in a carpark & not visible from the road.


  • #555
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    I mapped two yesterday for the Greystones exchange. One was only perhaps 20m or so from another just up the road (at Delgany).


  • #556
    Machinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Machinehead


    phog wrote: »
    The maps seem to cover the area that is covered by the particular exchange.

    Have a look at the map linked on the first page of this thread, is there a cab within 1km of your house?

    The nearest cab I can find is 2.2km from my house. Granted this is too far away for fibre. What annoys me is why do Vodafone send texts & emails & have my line showing up as capable of handling up to 70MB & Eircom have my neighbourhood as "green" when it's not available on my line.


  • #557
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Machinehead wrote: »
    The nearest cab I can find is 2.2km from my house. Granted this is too far away for fibre. What annoys me is why do Vodafone send texts & emails & have my line showing up as capable of handling up to 70MB & Eircom have my neighbourhood as "green" when it's not available on my line.

    The Eircom map will show what areas have gone live but not all cabinets are ready. Did you go out to find the nearest cabinet or are you going by the Crowdsource map? If you went by our map, it is possible that a cabinet could be nearer to you. A cabinet will be near or beside an old copper cabinet. The copper cabinet may not necessarily look like the one in post 1.


  • #558
    versager
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭versager


    Another one spotted in Carrick on Shannon at Tesco roundabout near the (former) Bank of America.

    Picture added.


  • #559
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    versager wrote: »
    Another one spotted in Carrick on Shannon at Tesco roundabout near the (former) Bank of America.

    Picture added.

    And an extension box on top of the other cabinet to the left of it. :D


  • #560
    versager
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭versager


    red_bairn wrote: »
    And an extension box on top of the other cabinet to the left of it. :D

    Ah well, the pic came up just like that:pac:

    The hunt for more cabinets goes on...


  • #561
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Added one in Kindlestown Upper in Wicklow, Delgany. Green cabinet put in place today.


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  • #562
    Machinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Machinehead


    red_bairn wrote: »
    The Eircom map will show what areas have gone live but not all cabinets are ready. Did you go out to find the nearest cabinet or are you going by the Crowdsource map? If you went by our map, it is possible that a cabinet could be nearer to you. A cabinet will be near or beside an old copper cabinet. The copper cabinet may not necessarily look like the one in post 1.
    The cab 2.2km away I mapped myself.
    https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=200976005490800150654.0004d6a674e6be3826dcb&start=1000&num=200&ll=52.306799,-9.716034&spn=0.514717,1.234589&t=h&z=10&vpsrc=6&iwloc=0004dd2cc5ade27f4ab5c
    It's one of the new smaller padlocked ones next to the larger old copper cab.
    Just need to get out & do a little legwork to find one closer to home. Had a quick drive around my area but nothing found. Maybe the cabs are still to be installed.


  • #563
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I spotted a new cab!, i was browsing Thomondgate as i might be moving there, looking for my closet cab, and spotted this sucker!, so i have two cabs pretty close to me, easily within 500m....no idea which one i am connected to.

    Anywhoo....old grey cab as seen on Google gone, replaced with big green and VDSL, no pic but i'll walk by tomorrow with phone in hand :)

    http://goo.gl/maps/jzwTr

    ^ added to map - did i do it right?


  • #564
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    ^ why dont folks take close up pics of the cab designation/number?....most [not all] cabs have a yellow sticker with a designation number, it relates to the exchange its connected to and the cab number........?


  • #565
    legrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭legrand


    if only we could get equivalent pricing..


  • #566
    versager
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭versager


    And another one spotted for Carrick-on-Shannon. This one was actually a bit tricky to notice, since it's across the N4 road (Roscommon side of town after you've passed the bridge) roughly up to 10 meters away from the original eircom cabinet;)

    Picture added.


  • #567
    domeld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 322 ✭✭domeld


    ESB is connecting power to new cabinets in Gorey.


  • #568
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    domeld wrote: »
    ESB is connecting power to new cabinets in Gorey.

    lucky f*cker! :D


  • #569
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Found 2 more in Enniscorthy & added them to the map.Both are on Ross Rd. & are servicing 2 estates at either side of the roundabout.(Andy Doyle Close & Sean Gearri)

    Eircom techs told me a week or so until we go live on certain cabs,Vodafone told me sometime in June.


  • #570
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Cabinet spotted and mapped on Oxmantown Road, Dublin. Cabra exchange.

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  • #571
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,112 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    legrand wrote: »
    if only we could get equivalent pricing..

    £18 per month plus £14 for line rental = £32 = €38
    no cheaper than Vodafone's middle package which also includes some calls


  • #572
    CRM Ireland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 350 ✭✭CRM Ireland


    Well as some of you will know, Ive found the closest cabinet to me is 5.2km away, so absolutely useless for ADSL. Thankfully I have a solution. Net1, who I was with in my old house, have managed to get me a great connection. Low pings and solid up and down speeds. Now I can game to my hearts content.

    The link is over 13km away!

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  • #573
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    CRM Ireland wrote: »
    Net1, who I was with in my old house, have managed to get me a great connection. Low pings and solid up and down speeds. Now I can game to my hearts content.

    The link is over 13km away!

    Price?


  • #574
    CRM Ireland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 350 ✭✭CRM Ireland


    red_bairn wrote: »
    Price?

    47EUR per month. Thats truly unlimited downloads with no fair use policy. It also includes the phone with free landline calls to Ireland and the UK 24/7.

    Considering Eircom couldnt even guarantee 1mb and I live miles from anywhere, this is exceptional. For the last 5 weeks since moving home, Ive had to tether my PC to my tablet using the 3G network. Its all over the place, full signal, but the speed varies from nothing at all to 3Mb and with pings never less than 90 bumping up to 1000! Useless for gaming.


  • #575
    matildajane
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭matildajane


    can someone tell me how close to a cab do you have to be in order to get fibre broadband. Apparently my 'cab' is enabled but line is not. I live in a rural area outside of Swords. nearest cab - based on maps here is around 4km away.


  • #576
    CRM Ireland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 350 ✭✭CRM Ireland


    matildajane wrote: »
    can someone tell me how close to a cab do you have to be in order to get fibre broadband. Apparently my 'cab' is enabled but line is not. I live in a rural area outside of Swords. nearest cab - based on maps here is around 4km away.

    It drops off very quickly. Anything over 1km is of no use. So you are far too far away to benefit.


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  • #577
    matildajane
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭matildajane


    10 miles from dublin city centre and no broadband - what a joke! Have they installed all the cabs now?


  • #578
    versager
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭versager


    I'm glad to add one more VSDL cabinet in Carrick-on-Shannon. The reason I'm happy to spot it is the fact it's within the 500m range from the place I live:D

    This one is actually up to 30m(!) away from the original eircom cabinet which is situated in front of the Sherry Fitzgerald office. The actual VSDL cabinet could be found across of the road facing Driving Test Centre.

    Pics added.


  • #579
    Skippy along
    Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Skippy along


    Added new VDSL cab ..Cork Rd Mallow near St Gobnetts Cemetary,Mallow Town


  • #580
    Skippy along
    Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Skippy along


    I see from the Main Cab Map that i'm not the only one posting location of cabinets in mallow:cool: ...today i noticed a new VDSL cab at the "crossroads dromahane" villiage on the map... seems its about 10k from the main exchange wonder what kind of speed the locals will get,,seen the k&n guys around there today digging


  • #581
    Codpeas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭Codpeas


    I've just mapped three more cabs on Blanchardstown exchange - the first ones we have mapped that are north of the N3.
    Still a long way to go for that exchange but getting there... LOTS more cabs yet to be installed and I'm sure a few I just haven't found yet.


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  • #582
    wheresmybeaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭wheresmybeaver


    mindstorms wrote: »
    Added a few more around Glanmire that I spotted over the last few days

    Just added another Glanmire cab to the map, just inside the entrance of Crawford Woods on the right hand side (quite tidily between the hedge and wall!). Within about 6 weeks they had installed the ducting, then the fibre, then the plinth, then the cab, and earlier this week the power was hooked up. So now it's just a matter of waiting for the cab to be commissioned - according to the Eircom eFibre map this will be between July and December. Fingers crossed that target doesn't slip. Vodafone (my current provider) emailed me telling me that fibre was coming soon, but no date set.


  • #583
    mickyoc85
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭mickyoc85


    are there any signs of cabs to be installed in the Ballinasloe area or is it too soon for that sort of crack??


  • #584
    bush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    Added one for ashbrook enniscorthy. Its the only one ive seen around here.


  • #585
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    bush wrote: »
    Added one for ashbrook enniscorthy. Its the only one ive seen around here.

    I've just added one for Ross Rd. near the main gate for the Showgrounds,there's a few more added also by myself & Chizler.


  • #586
    Codpeas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭Codpeas


    Is there a 'Joe' in the house?
    Looks like someone overwrote the instructions and SB message of the day on the ADD map while adding a cab in Bray - they also seem to have a dupe in place for it...


  • #587
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I mapped a load of cabs today around Raheen/Dooradoyle....was out at the regional for my scheduled blood tests so took a walk about. I'll start upping the pics/links....not sure if some of these have already been mapped and marked on the map or not?

    First one is here: http://goo.gl/maps/MFhhi

    Old grey cab on Street View gone, replaced with big green + VDSL.


  • #588
    Nolars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Nolars


    It would be nice now if there was a list of complete locations around Ireland. i.e. people can actually get broadband


  • #589
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Codpeas wrote: »
    Is there a 'Joe' in the house?
    Looks like someone overwrote the instructions and SB message of the day on the ADD map while adding a cab in Bray - they also seem to have a dupe in place for it...

    Ahahaha! We also know he's been to Ibiza and Italy. :D


  • #590
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    There are two VDSL cabs at this location: http://goo.gl/maps/7ZVKW

    Street View shows a big green and old grey, the old grey is gone...ergo two big green at the location + two VDSL.


  • #591
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Another VDSL cab located here: http://goo.gl/maps/nwOA6
    Its connected to the old grey cab in the parking lot, the grey cab is still there and not been switched out.


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  • #592
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Lone VDSL cab located here around this area of the stone wall, its right next to the wall....didnt spot any bigger grey or green cab that its usually connected to: http://goo.gl/maps/za3S5


  • #593
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    The old grey cab at this location swapped out for big green + VDSL added: http://goo.gl/maps/3FWWL


  • #594
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Again at this location the old grey seen on Street View swapped out with big green + VDSL added: http://goo.gl/maps/EYiLq


  • #595
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    VDSL added to this location: http://goo.gl/maps/XmJFY


  • #596
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    VDSL added to this location, my phone must have gone wonky because it only has one pic but i took more at this location :rolleyes:

    http://goo.gl/maps/EN6ay


  • #597
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Last one, VDSL added to this location: http://goo.gl/maps/ipvOS

    Pretty sure there are loads more around Raheen/Dooradoyle.
    I havent marked any of these cabs to the fibre map, so hopefully Sponge Bob or someone updates with pics and locations :)


  • #598
    bush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    zerks wrote: »
    I've just added one for Ross Rd. near the main gate for the Showgrounds,there's a few more added also by myself & Chizler.

    Ye sorry I meant to say up around this area.


  • #599
    booterboy
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭booterboy


    One that has not been mapped yet in Kilkenny City is located 50 metres from St. Lukes General Hospital entrance on Frehford Road.
    Will take pic tomorrow and map it.
    All VDSL cabinets in Kilkenny are black btw.
    I live between two of these VDSL cabinets about 400 metres from one and 350 metres from another.
    Can anybody in Ireland answer me these next few questions.
    Kilkenny City is supposed to be ''Live''.Eircom insist that my exchange is not enabled yet.As far as I know there is only one exchange in Kilkenny City located at the Parade.
    These cabinets near me that have been installed months ago,how do they enable them,is there an on switch?
    Was told my Eircom rep it will be months before I can get efibre(Kilkenny is a small town)and she kept going on about me being on a different exchange.
    Any answers greatly appreciated.


  • #600
    phog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,370 ✭✭✭✭phog


    booterboy wrote: »
    One that has not been mapped yet in Kilkenny City is located 50 metres from St. Lukes General Hospital entrance on Frehford Road.
    Will take pic tomorrow and map it.
    All VDSL cabinets in Kilkenny are black btw.
    I live between two of these VDSL cabinets about 400 metres from one and 350 metres from another.
    Can anybody in Ireland answer me these next few questions.
    Kilkenny City is supposed to be ''Live''.Eircom insist that my exchange is not enabled yet.As far as I know there is only one exchange in Kilkenny City located at the Parade.
    These cabinets near me that have been installed months ago,how do they enable them,is there an on switch?
    Was told my Eircom rep it will be months before I can get efibre(Kilkenny is a small town)and she kept going on about me being on a different exchange.
    Any answers greatly appreciated.

    During the boom times to provide lines to estates on the edge of towns smaller cab type exchanges were used maybe you're working from one of these


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  • #601
    booterboy
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭booterboy


    phog wrote: »
    During the boom times to provide lines to estates on the edge of towns smaller cab type exchanges were used maybe you're working from one of these

    Appreciate reply phog.Just totally confused lol.No problem waiting for efibre but as far as I am aware there is no other mini exchane on my side of town,also I live 150 metres from General hospital.
    My estate was built in 2006 so I would assume the lines are good enough.
    Maybe the reps mean that individual vsdl cabs are not "switched"on yet.
    Anyway thanks again phog,my search for basic info continues lol.
    Anyone know if Eircom reps were even briefed on the efibre situation before "rollout" last Monday?


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