eircom ncd fibre roll out

10belowzero

The Eircom exch is at Beau Hill on the Rush side of the train station , you will find it and the new vdsl site's here --- https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200976005490800150654.0004d6a674e6be3826dcb&msa=0 --- zoom in on Rush / Lusk or your area, holy moley boardies are like bee's mapping the vdsl cab's across the country , NCD is the best mapped , Mucho Kudos to you all.

What area are you in Dezo ? .
On another off note , their is a new adsl Zyxel modem being issued by eircom , and we are at last now being allowed to swap out faulty modem's at customer's premises ,which mean's cust's don't have to wait for a replacement from a courier or the post anymore (some postal delivery will still be used I'm sure), the other companies declined Eircom's offer to provide this service for them , from what I'm told , probably as well as I'd need a trailer to carry them all.We are also being issued the new E Fibre modem's in the next week or so.

DezoLord

Wow that's great! Finally.

10belowzero, I don't understand the FTTC chart. The exchange area is at Beau Hill, right? I live around 3-4kms from it, so what speed I should be getting approximately? Do I have to calculate the distance between the exchange area to my house or the closest VDSL hub to my house?

10belowzero

For vdsl your distance from the exch has no bearing , for adsl it does at present.
You need to look at the distance to your nearest vdsl cab to get a rough idea of the speed to expect.I do know the speed at the vdsl cab is in excess of a 100 mb , and know of people able where 100 mb is obtainable at 300 mts(although speed is limited to 70mb max at present) .
All this again depend's on the network layout and other factor's , if you are close to an vdsl cab , you should have no problem , as I've said before , I'm waiting to see how it perform's over distance.

DezoLord

Alright, thank you very much.

So you said the new routers are out, right? Do we have to ring Eircom and ask for a replacement or are they going to send them out?

10belowzero

Adsl modem's are replaced when an existing modem is faulty , the new E fibre vdsl 2 modem will be provided by the eircom tech when upgrading your line for the vdsl 2 installation.

DezoLord

Alright then, gonna ring them on Monday.

10belowzero

The day I get E Fibre , I'm gonna take the day off and run speed test's for the whole day , just to see the speed improvement (I hope)+ numerous ping test's , wow am I getting sadder with age or what , only messing , but I do have a hell of a lot online gaming to catch up on.
Dezo , eircom are not taking order's for E Fibre till may 20th , you can register your interest here ---- http://www.eircom.net/efibre/ - if you wish.

DezoLord

Haha, me too. I'd be gaming 24/7.

Do they work on the sites on Saturdays or only during the week? A week ago they were working on Sat in St. Catherine's and I was like 'wow'. xD

10belowzero

Yes , they are working 7 day's in some location's , traffic issue's etc and for target reason's as well ,St Catherines + Lambay View won't know it'self when vdsl goes live.

DezoLord

We should write up a letter and get signatures and send it out to Fingal. D North needs a better BD ASAP!

iRawwwN

Well, St. Catherine's VDSL box got put in a few days ago, here's the picture. Luckily I'm less than 200m from it. ^_^

Vico1612

Just in case you need it for running automated speed tests ...
http://www.gmwsoftware.co.uk/
Using it 24x7 for the past days to pull some stats on my ADSL connection

Neil_Sedaka

10belowzero wrote: »

Yes , they are working 7 day's in some location's , traffic issue's etc and for target reason's as well ,St Catherines + Lambay View won't know it'self when vdsl goes live.

Looks like I'm bang in the middle of the St. Catherine's and Ladycove cabs, both are about equal distance from me.

Is this bad?

10belowzero

No neil , I don't think so , it a straight run from st catherine's cab to lambay view ug wise , so it should be ok , given the distance.

Neil_Sedaka

10belowzero wrote: »

No neil , I don't think so , it a straight run from st catherine's cab to lambay view ug wise , so it should be ok , given the distance.

Great thanks

Psygnosis

I know the 2 in Golden Ridge in Rush have been mapped but as far as I know these where put in when the estate was built. Are they actually vdsl cab's can any one confirm 100%

DezoLord

Psygnosis wrote: »

I know the 2 in Golden Ridge in Rush have been mapped but as far as I know these where put in when the estate was built. Are they actually vdsl cab's can any one confirm 100%

Do they have V lines on them? If yes, they're VDSL hubs.

10belowzero

No they are dist cab's , the vdsl cab's should be appearing their soon , as they are fibre ready , the new vdsl cab was installed in Palmer rd yesterday.

jjspine

Hi 10below

was on to eircom this morning and they reckon balrothery/balbriggan wont be live this side of september even though they installed the cab recently in balrothery. Is this normal they install the cab so early i was expecting to go live on fibre next month myself

cheers

10belowzero

Hi jj - we just don't know,it's the best kept secret in year's,maybe as we get closer to the 20th we will find out more,I reckon it could be a feast or a famine , worst case being phase 1/2/hopefully3 (Balbriggan - ph3) , best scenario would be part's of phase 4/5 with a definite go live date for the remainder of say june /july.Some crew's are working round the clock , to get the area's done,asap, actually the new vdsl cab in Tayleur's Point, Rush was installed over the weekend.

kingtiger

I see they have begun work on the Cab near the playground in Dun Emer

10belowzero

They were also installing a vdsl plinth at the Dublin rd entrance to Chapel Farm in Lusk this afternoon.I hear also that people in Donabate + Portrane have got call's from Eircom offering E Fibre, which is good news for people there come May 20th.On http://www.eircom.net/efibre/ -- they have changed the layout , there is now a '' can I get it '' option.
Rush is nearly done cab wise , 3 left I think , they will probably concentrate on Lusk now.Ohh I forgot to mention about the new D1000 Eircom modem, login detail's - username = Admin / password is the W.E.P key on the sticker underneath , not the normal default password / broadband1.

eddiem74

10belowzero wrote: »

On http://www.eircom.net/efibre/ -- they have changed the layout , there is now a '' can I get it '' option.

Any ideas why it is by address rather than account/phone number? Is it just so non-eircom customers can check generally their street/area?

dave1982

It says I'm not enabled and theres a box just up the road!!

Tropheus

Any timelines for Donabate? Would rather go Eircom that UPC.

10belowzero

I've no idea Ed , like any of these system's , they are guide only ,in my book anyway,their are just so many variance's to take in to account , address's +variation's etc, exch area's that are not officially complete,would not be included either. No area is deemed officially complete until every vdsl cab in the exch area is installed + commissioned (fully working).
K , as Donabate + Portrane have been completed a while now and is part of phase 1(as is Swords)and Eircom have I heard been contacting people there re E Fibre , I would suspect it will be available from May 20th , but it's a crazy world so don't take it as gospel.

10belowzero

Well there has been a lot of activity in Chapel Farm and Dun Emer , Lusk ,in the last few day's.A new vdsl cab was installed this morning at the entrance to Chapel Farm @Dublin rd end and Dun Emer Cresent(beside the playground). Work also begun on the cab at the Killhedge Lane/Dun Emer entrance and the other cab on Chapel Farm Rd (before the green).
The new vdsl cab was also installed on Whitestown Rd jct Old Rd in Rush yesterday. There are a lot of crew's about behind the scenes , testing / commissioning , doing install's of equip in the exch's , so Rush/Lusk is well on the way now, as is Sutton I'm told, more of my photo handy work below --

kingtiger

Dun Emer Lusk by the playground

A.Partridge

Sorry to put a downer on the mild euphoria which seems to be building daily on the thread here but I have some doubts about the accuracy of how cabinets are being mapped and recorded.

This afternoon I happened to notice that a cabinet has been erroneously reported as being a VDSL cabinet. On the map it is described as being in the lane beside the obelisk in Skerries town centre. It is an older cabinet and definitely not a VDSL cabinet.

Worse for me is that it is the closest cabinet to my home.

Whispers

Anyone know why UPC isn't available in most of Chapel Farm. Seems that it's on offer on the houses that bookend the estate, but not anywhere else.

Would it have something to do with the ducting and who owns it? The developer of the estate (Manor Park) has gone bust (I believe), so maybe it's something to do with this.

10belowzero

A - I know the cab your talking about , it has been sub ducted and the fibre cable is there , awaiting a vdsl cab , that's a narrow lane , the vdsl cab could go either end, though I suspect it will go the sea front end of the lane.
There will be a couple of new cab's in Skerries , there are still a lot of area's served directly from the exch there , I will of course let ye know when I do what else is happening.

Khannie

Has the Skerries exchange been upgraded do you know 10Below? (I assume it needs some kind of upgrading?)

10belowzero

Khannie , I saw all the new equipment being delivered about 3 week's ago , so various crew's have been working on the exch upgrade in Skerries since then and are still working on it at present.

Khannie

You're a legend. Thanks. I hereby pledge to give you a bottle of my delicious home brew cider when this is all over.

I saw two vans down there at lunchtime today alright (which is busier than normal for the Skerries exchange).

SeaSide

10belowzero wrote: »

Well there has been a lot of activity in Chapel Farm and Dun Emer , Lusk ,in the last few day's.A new vdsl cab was installed this morning at the entrance to Chapel Farm @Dublin rd end and Dun Emer Cresent(beside the playground). Work also begun on the cab at the Killhedge Lane/Dun Emer entrance and the other cab on Chapel Farm Rd (before the green).
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When you see the planner give him a kick for me. The cab on Chapel Farm Road in the picture stands out like a sore thumb. Any reason it couldn't have been moved back the 6m to where the other cab is located?

There are very regular visits by rather large trucks to the pumping station beside it and I can see it getting crushed.

10belowzero

The only reason I can think of is that there is a huge tank under that corner , as well as gas main's , water and electricity supply and the sewage main's as well , hopefully nothing will happen to it , it would be a hefty bill @ 50,000 a pop and the rest for some one's insurance.I see kn installing a plinth at Remount Farm est entrance today , in Lusk also the Glenn Ribh appartment's (will have it's own vdsl 2 cab)will probably be the best served in NCD apart from Spicer's Mill in Balbriggan which also has it's own vdsl2 cab.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/120485/252264.jpg

Also new fusion map compiled by fellow boardies here ..... https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1M_lYcvMkt7xIqqSa43TdS1s25oRqtA2JgpxAkYM#map:id=4

10belowzero

Was talking to lad's doing the fibre today , the order is for completion by the end of May or ASAP for Rush/Lusk , pretty much as I suspected , Skerries is't far behind , two new vdsl cab's put in place on Chapel Farm Rd and the entrance to Dun Emer at Kilhedge Lane this morning , will hopefully be about Skerries tomorrow so will let you know more.Had an email from our chairman today about the TV aspect which will be up and running by August so I'm told , let you know all know when I do.

Psygnosis

Any news on Goldenridge nothing seems to be happening as of yet a new cabinet is going up outside of the old extravision which I guess wouldnt be too far away

thesteve

ksimpson wrote: »

Any timelines for Donabate? Would rather go Eircom that UPC.

I'm in Donabate, magnet called me and said May 20th is D Day

10belowzero

P that was a routine job ,that happened to coincide with the fibre roll out, their is only 3 cab's left in Rush to be done , 2 Golden Ridge - 1 - opp Micheal Collin's pub afaik.
I see the cab's in Chapel Farm being commissioned early this morning , the cab's were only put in yesterday, that's how quick they are moving.

Riesen_Meal

thesteve wrote: »

I'm in Donabate, magnet called me and said May 20th is D Day

Fingers crossed this applies to Balrothery also!

:-)

10belowzero

The excitement is knockin me bandy , I'm just not going to sleep that's it , I'll wait - NO I can't , I want 70 meg's now , what will I do if I can't get it , don't know , but Wait, ye can wake me on the 19th , I will need fibre for brekkie !!!!!

pg17

Up to today, all the mapped cabinets I saw in the Finglas area are old "copper" cabinets and they have a licence application notices for a VDSL cabinet attached.

Today, I saw my first Finglas VDSL cabinet with an ESB power cabinet beide a "copper" cabinet in the North Park industrial park in Finglas. It is not on the maps so I'll check out the exact location and map it in the next few days.

mcobrien

Happy to say the cabinet A.Partridge mentioned on the previous page had a lot of construction work today... the first I've seen in Skerries.

Psygnosis

10belowzero wrote: »

P that was a routine job ,that happened to coincide with the fibre roll out, their is only 3 cab's left in Rush to be done , 2 Golden Ridge - 1 - opp Micheal Collin's pub afaik.
I see the cab's in Chapel Farm being commissioned early this morning , the cab's were only put in yesterday, that's how quick they are moving.

hi 10belowzero
any news on goldenrdge starting to get a bit concerned now

10belowzero

And so am I - there is a couple left in Rush / Lusk - they will be done - no area is let go live untill the whole area is completed.There is a hell of a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes , I hav't been up near Skerrries - but glad to hear they are started on the cab's because the fibre is there waiting.
The roll out is amazing , the way it all co-ordinate's - it's very hard to know about tomorrow , when a call is changing to-day , like one crew pulled in a 4km section of subducting in a less than a day to a vdsl plinth location and our fibre crew had fibre cable in situ for the cab's on that route by 10.00 that night.The next day a vdsl 2 cab erected - powered 2 day's later and commissioned the day after.
It does't all way's work like that because of planning , civil's , appeal's etc , but it is like a well oiled machine now.Part's of Finglas are really taking shape as well as Sutton and Belcamp - all are really flying now - 6 day's now with this edit

eddiem74

Just wondering have any others experienced this?

I registered on the eircom website as an existing customer to be notified when the upgrade was available. A few days later I got a letter with my name and address not spelled 100% correctly telling me to go to www.eircom.ie/upgradenow and follow the steps and I would get an email informing me what to do to upgrade.

Now in the letter they informed me that they included my account number for reference however the account number included was not my existing eircom account number and neither the one in the letter or my existing account worked on the website.

So I assumed all this was a mistake made by some over worked data entry clerk and basically followed the same process again. Took a lot longer 2nd time around but got another letter today, post marked yesterday. Basically all the same issues as the prior letter, in fact may have been a resend?

Just wondering if others have experienced this?

I think at this stage probably just best to wait to be upgraded automatically.

A.Partridge

mcobrien wrote: »

Happy to say the cabinet A.Partridge mentioned on the previous page had a lot of construction work today... the first I've seen in Skerries.

Thanks for that. Yes, I popped over to Gerry's to buy something this morning and the full crews were kango hammering away in McLoughlin's Lane.

Hopefully, that new cabinet will be commissioned soon !

Riesen_Meal

10belowzero wrote: »

The excitement is knockin me bandy , I'm just not going to sleep that's it , I'll wait - NO I can't , I want 70 meg's now , what will I do if I can't get it , don't know , but Wait, ye can wake me on the 19th , I will need fibre for brekkie !!!!!

ha ha, I don't ask for much, once I hit a 20 down and at least a solid 1 up I will be a happy bunny!

I would say as the crow flies I am about 300M from the cabinet, so I know I won't get the full whack....

But anything is better than 432kbps

Khannie

Fieldog wrote: »

432kbps

:eek:

How much are you paying for that per month if you don't mind me asking?

I'm not terribly interested in the download speed improvements myself (I'm currently on 17Mbps down which is fine for nearly everything), more the upload. I want to back up my photo collection online, that kind of thing and it's just too painful with the current upload speeds.