Fibre launch - epic fail already!?

Cantona's Collars

I was promised that Enniscorthy would be live this month,as of this morning they were digging up the footpath in one estate trying to get power to a cab.
I'll give 'em a week or so & see how progress is going,as it stands Enniscorthy is roughly 6 months ahead of schedule so getting fibre within the next few weeks will be a bonus.

red_bairn

Fieldog wrote: »

Have UPC not always been FTTH from the get go? And not the FTTC/ADSL that we are waiting for?

Not many rural area's offer UPC....

They don't have FTTH.

This is real FTTH.

Riesen_Meal

red_bairn wrote: »

They don't have FTTH.

This is real FTTH.

How is it done then as a matter of interest?

Just standard Co-Ax cabling coming through the wall?

red_bairn

Fieldog wrote: »

How is it done then as a matter of interest?

Just standard Co-Ax cabling coming through the wall?

aye. Here is an article on what they use.

Not even Greystones has UPC BB and Bray does. Such a joke. They are missing out. Eircom will get all those potential customers. :rolleyes:

Morrisseyy

red_bairn wrote: »

aye. Here is an article on what they use.

Not even Greystones has UPC BB and Bray does. Such a joke. They are missing out. Eircom will get all those potential customers. :rolleyes:

I think Charlesland has UPC but not 100%!

red_bairn

Morrisseyy wrote: »

I think Charlesland has UPC but not 100%!

Yeah, those new areas being the exception. But even those people have trouble with fluctuating speeds.

gctest50

red_bairn wrote: »

They don't have FTTH.

This is real FTTH.

This is real FTTH

http://www.fibrexchange.com.sg/around-the-world/world-fastest-internet/

skobywan

Fieldog wrote: »

This is funny, not one speed test posted as of yet....

I posted mine there Fieldog....

red_bairn

gctest50 wrote: »

This is real FTTH

http://www.fibrexchange.com.sg/around-the-world/world-fastest-internet/

*unreal

skobywan

allen175 wrote: »

Thats nice, but most people posting here have either had terrible problems with UPC or its just not available in their area, so they can't get it, im sure if they could they would be with them already.

I've had nothing but problems with them. I've single handedly gone to town on their customer support for being lying asshat on this form. I will not give them credit for anything, they're an awful company with a terrible service. I won't argue that.

I just decided to upgrade after seeing the thread this morning. In all fairness to them it took about a half an hour with no router upgrade needed. That was my speedtest as of that time.

I took another one a few minutes ago and it seems that during peak time they still throttle. My downloads gone to 30mb and my upload is below 1mb.

TLDR;

Go with UPC Fibre, you will get 100MB for about 3 hours a day, and as long as you don't expect any improvement over dial-up between 4pm and 1am you'll be absolutely fine.

red_bairn

skobywan wrote: »

I've had nothing but problems with them. I've single handedly gone to town on their customer support for being lying asshat on this form. I will not give them credit for anything, they're an awful company with a terrible service. I won't argue that.

I just decided to upgrade after seeing the thread this morning. In all fairness to them it took about a half an hour with no router upgrade needed. That was my speedtest as of that time.

I took another one a few minutes ago and it seems that during peak time they still throttle. My downloads gone to 30mb and my upload is below 1mb.

TLDR;

Go with UPC Fibre, you will get 100MB for about 3 hours a day, and as long as you don't expect any improvement over dial-up between 4pm and 1am you'll be absolutely fine.

Where did you post the speed test?

skobywan

red_bairn wrote: »

Where did you post the speed test?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2720456502.png

There's a retake as of 10 mins ago for you.

Keep in mind a half hour before that I was getting 34/1.

red_bairn

skobywan wrote: »

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2720456502.png

There's a retake as of 10 mins ago for you.

Keep in mind a half hour before that I was getting 34/1.

Ah, but the lads and lassies wanna see tests for Eircom fibre.

Manc Red

When taking about not seeing speed tests I believe we are referring to eircom.

UPC are very unreliable and I need the faster upload which Eircom are offering. Plus I'm only 200 meters away from the eircom cab so I will hopefully get some good consistent speeds if/when I get it.

skobywan

red_bairn wrote: »

Ah, but the lads and lassies wanna see tests for Eircom fibre.

Are the exchanges for fiber any different? I don't know. It's fiber so it should be comparable.

red_bairn

skobywan wrote: »

Are the exchanges for fiber any different? I don't know. It's fiber so it should be comparable.

When you are saying fiber to the exchange, I'm assuming you are speaking about the cabinets now. But yes, they will be. Customers will be able to avail of upload speeds up to 20Mb.