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Broadband Deprivation - Just

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  • 21-10-2020 4:38pm
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    Mike Circularwise
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    Can anyone suggest how this area less than 25KM's away from the GPO O'Connell Street suggest how this Eadestown Rathmore area in County Kildare possibly have a fibre broadband supplier to connect our 340 homes located close together despite being in a rural suburban area. We have organized a petition signed by 340 people begging for some service.

    EIR appeared to have ignored us despite many requests for help, yet they have fibre less than 1 mile from the location in Kilteel, after being assured by NBI we were a priority today they send a notice to say it will be 12 months away before they connect us. Their contracted surveyors were surprised at our housing density along our rural roads. The residents are now desperate in not having working from home access during this pandemic, which is incredible for such a highly populated Dublin commute area.

    So come on Eir - 12 months no competition - why would you not wander in and sweep it all up?

    Can anyone suggest how to have the 340 voices heard and make something happen?
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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,166 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    25km might as well be 100km. Each cab reaches out 2km. You're still rural. Also its more than 25km.



    You can get together and do a B4RN or you can hurry up and wait for NBI.


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    Mike Circularwise
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Mike Circularwise


    Eh no it is 25km from my home to GPO


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    KildareP
    Registered Users Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭KildareP


    Mike Circularwise wrote: »
    Eh no it is 25km from my home to GPO
    There are parts of Dublin much closer to the GPO than you who don't have high speed broadband either. Large parts of the Northside and the old parts of Tallaght/Firhouse.

    If it was economically viable for a provider to have cabled up your area, they would have done so by now.

    NBI is the answer to those areas who are unfortunate enough to live in one of those areas deemed uneconomical to serve.



    Your options until then really only are:
    (1) Try and find the best mobile 4G provider until NBI arrive

    (2) Chance the likes of Imagine, Premier Broadband, Regional Broadband, etc. until NBI arrive

    (3) A technically minded member of the community, ideally with line of sight to everyone else, could build a community WISP. Buy a large microwave link from the likes of Airspeed, Viatel or Host Ireland and divvy up the bandwidth among yourselves using MicroTik or Ubiquiti gear hosted centrally in an obliging community members house or shed. All three of those operators have presence on Slieve Thoul which you should have clear line of sight to from that neck of the woods.


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    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,820 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Mike Circularwise wrote: »
    Can anyone suggest how this area less than 25KM's away from the GPO O'Connell Street suggest how this Eadestown Rathmore area in County Kildare possibly have a fibre broadband supplier to connect our 340 homes located close together despite being in a rural suburban area. We have organized a petition signed by 340 people begging for some service.

    EIR appeared to have ignored us despite many requests for help, yet they have fibre less than 1 mile from the location in Kilteel, after being assured by NBI we were a priority today they send a notice to say it will be 12 months away before they connect us. Their contracted surveyors were surprised at our housing density along our rural roads. The residents are now desperate in not having working from home access during this pandemic, which is incredible for such a highly populated Dublin commute area.

    So come on Eir - 12 months no competition - why would you not wander in and sweep it all up?

    Can anyone suggest how to have the 340 voices heard and make something happen?

    Because as sure as there's **** in a dog an ISP would come into this area with 340 voices and about 50 would sign up, the rest would come up with a million excuses not to. What has distance from the gpo got to do with it? You seriously don't think everything works from Dublin do you?


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    allanroche
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭allanroche


    If it makes you feel better, I live in North Dublin, about 200-300 metres from my nearest fibre exchange and I can't get service because OpenEir and SIRO haven't passed my road but consider the area complete.

    So even if they did work on your area there is no guarantee you'd get anywhere.


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