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UPC Broadband Availability In Limerick City

  • 17-07-2012 8:42pm
    #1
    neo2010
    Registered Users Posts: 273 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I recently ordered the 100mb broadband & phone with UPC. However, I was told that my house had no cable wire at all - I live in a terraced house (Limerick city), and was told by tech support that the other houses have feeds running in, except mine for some peculiar reason. As a result, I could not get the service.

    I am wondering if the possible scenario could work? - my neighbor has a working cable wire, and could split the wire in order to run a feed into my house, in order to connect the modem. I think I would need a satellite splitter to prevent interference, but could this actually work?

    Could anybody help?


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,472 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Could be one of these

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=79522042


  • #3
    roast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭roast


    What locality are you in? City centre?


  • #4
    neo2010
    Registered Users Posts: 273 ✭✭neo2010


    Well, I live near St Johns cathedral, and was told that the entire area is eligible for fiber power broadband.


  • #5
    roast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭roast


    neo2010 wrote: »
    Well, I live near St Johns cathedral, and was told that the entire area is eligible for fiber power broadband.

    Ah yes....

    UPC claim that they have that entire locality covered, which isn't the case. The majority is, but a bunch of places around mungret street, johns street, old francis st. etc. aren't eligible, due to old cabling.
    There's a little bit more to it than that, but the gist of the situation is that UPC are being refused access to certain properties to replace old cabling and hang new cabling.
    Does your neighbour currently have BB with UPC?


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