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Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016
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I havent CAT 5, only multi strand telco cable.........I'll buy a pair of the plugs and try them out using my existing set up.....other than that, I think I'll look at wireless extenders........anyone found a particularly good model ? Worst case I'll get one of those 802.11ac access points.....although I guess the range will not be significantly different......
Hi there
Right PLC (Power line) - it will work through fine through circuit breakers (provided the breaker is closed) - usually any electrical circuit going throght the same circuit board is fine - if there are two fuse boxes then you may have problems. Leaders in PLC technology is Devolo who make the Vodafone power line tech (here http://www.vodafone.ie/home-phone-broadband/add-ons/?ts=1370420084261) it also offer automatic security, electrical passthrough etc - by all accounts the TP link device is fine too.
On wireless - Most of the NGA modems support 802.11b/g/n with dual channel and 2x2 MiMo so you sohuld get good coverage - Certainly the Vodafone and eircom ones do. the 802.11ac stuff is still very new and the standard is not complete but I am sure it will work - people like netgear etc are usually first out of the door with early stuff but it may or may not work with later versions of the standard so be careful
On cabinet availability - VDSL is available to all providers at the same time. The cabinet could be ready but not released - regardless of provider, you will get service at the same time, regalrdess of who you choose. If you cabinet is ready, it will probably get released in the coming few weeks.
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Do home plugs work if there is a circuit breaker in between?
My garage has its own circuit breaker which comes off the main circuit breaker in the house?....but I will try them also.......do they have any limitations and do they impact any electrical device eg the tv?
Those devices actually send the data back over the neutral wires in your house.
There are two types of protection devices used in your house:
1: MCB (Miniature Circuit Breakers) these are overcurrent protection i.e. they trip if the current flowing is more than a set value e.g. 16 or 20amps on a typical Irish socket circuit. These are only connected across the live. So, basically they'll have no impact whatsoever on your home plugs, even if tripped (except that you'd have no power). Older installations used bottle-shaped screw in cartridge fuses called "Diazed" or "Neozed" for this purpose.
2: RCD (Residual Current Device) these trip if a difference of more than 30mA (or 10mA in some cases) is detected between the live and neutral. They're designed to prevent electric shock.
In these devices, the live and neutral pass through a transformer and this can have a serious degrading effect on home-plug data.
Depending on how and when your home was wired, the design of the circuits would be different.
In a typical Irish home, there was a single RCD on the socket circuits and perhaps another covering hotwater heaters and usually a seperate one for showers etc.
Sometimes garages / sheds would have their own RCD and panel.
Older wiring (pre 1980) wouldn't usually have any RCDs at all, unless one was retrofitted.
Some newer installations have more than one RCD so, you can have situations where there's one per circuit in some cases where they've used a combined RCB/MCB device called RCBO.
RCDs are a great invention though - they genuinely save millions of people from bad electric shocks every year. Far more fundamentally important than home-plug data
Basically, if everything's on the same RCD, you should get good data speeds.
If the data has to pass through an RCD e.g. into a sub-panel in a garage / shed or an RCD-socket you might not get good data throughput.
It usually doesn't kill the connection, but it reduces the speed somewhat or may cause it to become unstable.
If it works in your neighbours house without any speed reduction, you probably both need to consider having RCDs fitted for shock protection 0 -
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Back down in Letterkenny for an hour or so. My Eircom page still hasn't updated with the new broadband package and the usage checker is still missing from the page.
Ping to google.ie has dropped 1ms since last week lol, speeds are leveled off now:
Odd that my sync speed for upload is 20Mbps, and the attainable is 29, yet it only gets 11Mbps up.
That still leaves the upload higher than the download I'm getting back home outside Donegal town though :P
Latency is lower at home though, sitting at 12-14ms on fixed wireless.
I hope they bring down this interleaving a bit, or at least make it a choice between fastpath and interleaved because it seems everyone is on near the same 25-28ms to google.ie.
That's a bit high for "Fibre powered".0 -
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/5efyl3ci0cne13e/internet.png
Speed that im getting from digiweb,
cant do a speedtest because i actually dont have internet yet, still waiting on the username and password for the broadband and that takes 24hours.
Digiweb are using the FRITZ!Box 7360.
http://www.fritzbox.eu/en/products/FRITZBox_Fon_WLAN_7360/index.php
Never heard of the brand but it has some cool features,
it has 2x gigabyte ports and 2x 100mb ports on the back.
im about 500-530m from the cab.
If you need anymore info just ask
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/5efyl3ci0cne13e/internet.png
Speed that im getting from digiweb,
cant do a speedtest because i actually dont have internet yet, still waiting on the username and password for the broadband and that takes 24hours.
Digiweb are using the FRITZ!Box 7360.
http://www.fritzbox.eu/en/products/FRITZBox_Fon_WLAN_7360/index.php
Never heard of the brand but it has some cool features,
it has 2x gigabyte ports and 2x 100mb ports on the back.
im about 500-530m from the cab.
If you need anymore info just ask
Looking forward to getting installed now.
My exchange went live over the weekend and Digiweb put through the order early Tuesday.
Any idea how long ill be waiting ?
Or how long before I get a text with a date for installation.0 -
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Best bet really is to invest in a powerline repeater to cover upstairs. You could change to 5ghz if the f supports it but only very recent devices support it so there's a good chance that would eliminate some devices in the household.
It's suppose to be dual-band. So he can set it that some devices will get 5ghz and others 2.4ghz. Happy days!
But yeah, for those who have offices on the far side of a house or where they still find the modem aint being picked up, use powerline adapters/home plugs.
I can pick up my wireless signal on our NETGEAR DGN2200 outside the front and back of the house about 20m away in the back garden.
See the picture (on two channels)...0 -
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Have changed around the channels, etc. Do those repeaters add much in terms of ping? Looks like we will have to get the tech back as the phone line in the Kitchen no longer works after the installation today (modem is in another room). I might just get him to install it upstairs if he has to come back (don't ask why it wasn't installed upstairs this time again
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