letterkenny dsl rollout delayed

ednwireland

anyone expecting dsl in letterkenny by end june apparently it's being delayed until at least september (wonder why the ida can't get companies to locate in the region - let me think now .............

MDR

* me thought it was scheduled for "end of summer" in the first instance * .... ?

ednwireland

apparently not i believe business were being told that dsl would be there by end june, but i guess as usual it probably depends on who you talk to and how annoyed you are, mind you it's the usual story donegal isn't important, certainly i never expect to get dsl in donegal town

MDR

mate of mine was an network engineer for prudential and he was told september .... but there you go. Its all half truths and third party information, go abuse your td about it ...

jimmeh

Please god no negative thoughts, I WILL HAVE DSL BY THE END OF JUNE!

Paddy20

Never believe anything you hear in relation to any developments of any kind re: Letterkenny!.

Only believe it when you see it or try asking Sean Maloney!

Civilian_Target

Are you sure it's delayed? I was talking to Eircom on tuesday (after just an hour on hold, now THATS service!) and they said that the Letterkenny main exchange had already been upgraded and that broadband would be available in the next few weeks.

That said, €ircom aren't exactly the most trust-worthy of monopoly holders out there, but thats what they say, take it with a pinch of salt.

Civilian_Target

ednwireland

i heard it from a new call centre thats opened, if true ?, your only recourse is political. i see it this way eircom have a certain amount of resource to do the roll outs testing etc etc and they come under political pressure to do certain towns first - it looks to me like the business in letterkenny hasn't been shouting loud enough or long enough and certainly not in the right place (ie the two ff ministers)

Paddy20

Letterkenny is known nationwide as a centre of excellance, re telecommunications due to its long established Educational Technology Centre and students from all parts of Ireland attend the Technology Institute.

If you live in Letterkenny?.. Why not join up with the students and start a - Broadband 4 Letterkenny - campaign, to include a march through the town.

At least it would attract the right type of publicity and embarass the political idiots!.

kazoo106

Try http://www.nwewireless.com it seems they already have customers in Letterkenny.

ednwireland

nwewireless say

Moville, Carndonagh and Letterkenny are 3-4 mths away.

unless more customers can be raised to speed up the roll out

jimmeh

Whey!

Letterkenny exchange has gone live

now to order a phat peep, netsource seem dodgy so it might have to be a cap, i dont mind as long as the pings are good.

jimmeh

Eircom passed my line today said it would take up to 3 weeks to get an engineer around, also that i cant self install because of ISDN

gombín

Jimmeh,

There's no way of getting around the self-install part. If service can't be provided after the exchange work, they have to revert you to ISDN, which they won't do if you go tampering with the Network Terminator on the wall.

I would have thought that the install time would have been closer to two weeks provincially, but this could be that the techs doing the installs in Donegal are the team based in Sligo who also have to deal with Carrick on Shannon which was launched recently.

Regards.

jimmeh

There is a way around if i downgrade to analogue first, but i dont know how much that would cost atm.

gombín

Not advised Jimmeh.

You'll pay €25 to downgrade which will take 3/4 days. You're then essentially starting from scratch, so you'll have to go through the whole rigmarole about line "retesting" that you've probably raed so much about here. This will probably heap another week onto the process- if you're lucky. They'll give you the self-install then, but they won't go near the box on the wall from the ISDN. If you can't sort that out they'll charge you, I think it's €129, for a normal tech to come and take the box away.

If you're not technically-minded, I wouldn't touch this with a bargepole (help offered if you're sure this is the route you want to take), not to mention the time delay.

jimmeh

The reason to down grade is because netsource dont have any engineers outside the greater dublin area, so it would have to be self install and to do that i need a standard line. They seem to have sorted out there bandwidth issues and are very tempting again. Thanks for the offer of help if it comes to that but i think i should be ok

Civilian_Target

Letterkenny is live! Woohoo! Line test passed, broadband pending. Woohoo!

DonegalMan

I've been passed too - but only i-Stream starter

Same as jimmeh, I have to get ISDN line downgraded, so self-install is out and they're quoting me 15 days; mind you, my previous experience with Eircom in Letterkenny is that when they quote 15 days, they usually turn up in about 4/5 days so I'm keeping my fingers crossed:)

Anyone in Letterkenny know where the upgraded exchange actually is ? I'm in Thorn Road.

Martin Harran

jimmeh

Thorn Road i can spit on you from here i on the ramelton road just after the thorn road.


The exchange is either at 2 places in town just over the road beside unifi at that eircom place or at the post office. I think its the post office.

Netsource say there shouldnt be a problem passing the downgraded line and therfore self install is an option again and a hell of alot cheaper than the engineer install from eircom.

DonegalMan

Originally posted by jimmeh
Thorn Road i can spit on you from here i on the ramelton road just after the thorn road.]

VFM floors here, please don't spit on us

The exchange is either at 2 places in town just over the road beside unifi at that eircom place or at the post office. I think its the post office.

Don't think it's beside Unifi or we'd be close enough for enhanced service

Netsource say there shouldnt be a problem passing the downgraded line and therfore self install is an option again and a hell of alot cheaper than the engineer install from eircom.

Have to put business interests before personal distaste (kind word) for Eircom - I'm just worried that if I get Eircom to d/g the line and Netsource to connect me, it'll get screwed up somewhere and each will balme the other. Past experience has taught me to avoid any sort of development where 2 suppliers/competitors are both involved in the set-up


Martin Harran

jimmeh

Well i ordered the down grade there yesterday and they said up to 10 - 15 days but if its anything like when i ordered ISDN it should be next week. Netsource here i come.


Wish me luck!

jimmeh

Well the downgrade didnt turn out to be anything near 0-15 days with it being done there on tuesday and the order pushed through by netsource the onwednesday with no troble, so it seems thats its all going well, a little to well i hear you say

while talking to the engineer on tuesday that had started to put in a good few lines, i know of someone near Unifi with a eircom 1 meg line.

netsource is still an option martin

jimmeh

Line activated yesterday recieved my filters today got a lend of a modem till mine comes in and flying along with nice pings and nice download speeds

MDR

Does this mean that Martin is going to get rid of his satellite connection ?

DonegalMan

Originally posted by MDR
Does this mean that Martin is going to get rid of his satellite connection ?

Long gone, muck (End of the Beam Saga) but at least I have DSL to look forward to, even if it's only 256K

Martin

P.S. Anyone interested in a Dish and Satellite modem that the Beam w**kers didn't even get round to uninstalling ?

Urban Weigl

Originally posted by DonegalMan
P.S. Anyone interested in a Dish and Satellite modem that the Beam w**kers didn't even get round to uninstalling ?

Are you serious? The satellite modem alone is worth 1500 euros!

DonegalMan

Originally posted by Urban Weigl
Are you serious? The satellite modem alone is worth 1500 euros!

Perfectly serious !

If interested then PM me, I'm travelling at moment but will deal with it when I get back in just over 2 weeks.

Martin

Urban Weigl

Doing the install yourself should not be very difficult (worse case scenario would be the lend of a spectrum analyzer to aim it precisely), however I am not sure if you could buy the connectivity from Satlynx directly. Could anyone find out?

*already has a 360e modem*