Kilcoole - eFibre rollout?

SimonFM

I know there is a Greystones - eFibre thread, but I couldn't seem to find any information about the Kilcoole area. Is anyone looking around for this or is there already a thread for this? Is there eFibre or UPC coming anytime soon?

fat-tony

It's a long-ish thread all right but there are various posts in it regarding the parts of Kilcoole that are already fibre enabled. South of the town is served by Newtown exchange, while the north is served by Greystones. Try a thread search with the keyword "Kilcoole" and you should turn up the relevant entries. Click on the thread and you will see the "Search this thread" dropdown box.

mrbrianj

We have it for about 6 months at the north end of the village.

The guys putting it in said it was about 40 not the 70 in the adverts but still light years ahead of the speed it was.

The Real B-man

mrbrianj wrote: »

We have it for about 6 months at the north end of the village.

The guys putting it in said it was about 40 not the 70 in the adverts but still light years ahead of the speed it was.

I have the full 70mb it depends on Distance from the Cab and its upto 70mb as advertised.

drake70

The Real B-man wrote: »

I have the full 70mb it depends on Distance from the Cab and its upto 70mb as advertised.

I have "up to" 50Mb/s for €50.00/month. A friend has up to 70Mb/s fo a higher price (I had a look at the eircom site to see how much but it's not listed)

There are now only two efibre bundles listed, both with a speed of up to 100Mb/s. One with a 30GB usage cap and one unlimited. Normal price €45 and €50 respectively. There are new customer offers for the first six months.

I wonder can we switch to or automatically be switched to these speeds now, or do we have to wait for current contract to expire.

SimonFM

When I did the 'Is it available on your telephone line' test it said that we couldn't get it and the max we could get was up to 24Mb/s (I'm just north of north Kilcoole). But from this, I can gather that the house just needs to be connected up to the fibre cable I assume? Would the council do this for us or do we need to do this ourselves?

drake70

SimonFM wrote: »

When I did the 'Is it available on your telephone line' test it said that we couldn't get it and the max we could get was up to 24Mb/s (I'm just north of north Kilcoole). But from this, I can gather that the house just needs to be connected up to the fibre cable I assume? Would the council do this for us or do we need to do this ourselves?

Hi Simon,

You do not need fibre cable running to your house, just a normal phone line. Efibre is where the fibre cable is runs to an Eircom VDSL cabinet, which is a green box which is usually situated beside the normal eircom cabinet in your area.

More information available in the first post here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056951101

The Real B-man

drake70 wrote: »

I have "up to" 50Mb/s for €50.00/month. A friend has up to 70Mb/s fo a higher price (I had a look at the eircom site to see how much but it's not listed)

There are now only two efibre bundles listed, both with a speed of up to 100Mb/s. One with a 30GB usage cap and one unlimited. Normal price €45 and €50 respectively. There are new customer offers for the first six months.

I wonder can we switch to or automatically be switched to these speeds now, or do we have to wait for current contract to expire.

Ring them up i was on the 50mb unlimited rang up and got my line bumped up to 70mb, line is capable of 90mb so i may ring up again, its whatever your line can handle regardless of package.

fat-tony

SimonFM wrote: »

When I did the 'Is it available on your telephone line' test it said that we couldn't get it and the max we could get was up to 24Mb/s (I'm just north of north Kilcoole). But from this, I can gather that the house just needs to be connected up to the fibre cable I assume? Would the council do this for us or do we need to do this ourselves?

If your telephone number in the checker comes up with max 24mb/s, then it probably means that you are either connected directly to the exchange (no fibre option soon) or that the cabinet you are connected to is not fibre enabled yet. When you say north of north Kilcoole it sounds like you may be far from a cabinet. Have you tried both eircom and Vodafone's line checkers? What broadband speed do you have at the moment?

edit: I just checked eircom's wholesale network map http://www.eircomwholesale.ie/Our_Network/ and the nearest cabinets are on Lott Lane and at Priestnewtown (I'm assuming you are located somewhere between them). But both of these are live and I've seen posts in the Greystones eFibre thread (if you searched it!) from fibre customers on Lott Lane. If you were connected to either of these cabinets then you should have the fibre option, unless you are too far from either. Call eircom and see if you can get someone to give you a reason why no fibre option is open to you.

SimonFM

fat-tony wrote: »

Call eircom and see if you can get someone to give you a reason why no fibre option is open to you.

I'll try that, because it does seem a bit ridiculous at this stage that we can't get fibre broadband when the cable is about 10 metres from the house.

fat-tony wrote: »

If your telephone number in the checker comes up with max 24mb/s, then it probably means that you are either connected directly to the exchange (no fibre option soon) or that the cabinet you are connected to is not fibre enabled yet.

Why would it take a long time for the connection to be switched over to fibre? Would the only way to find out to ring up?

Vodafone says the line can only take 24Mb/s too. So I think it was what fat-tony was saying. (Sounded very sinister)

We used to get ~300kb/s on vodafone, but then switched to sky and now we get ~210 kb/s should I ring up sky to get our speed bumped up too, since I know our line can handle more.

fat-tony

What cable are you talking about? Are you served via overhead wire from a pole?
Did you have a look at the map I linked - I'm just trying to get an idea where you are actually actually located in relation to Lott Lane. You have to be within 1.5 to 2km from a cabinet (green with a lock on the side) before they will consider you for eFibre. The actual fibre part of the connection runs from Greystones exchange to the cabinet and the equipment is located inside it. From the cabinet it's just the ordinary copper wire pair to your house. The speed drops off along the copper wire pair as the distance increases, so about 2km is the max before the signal drops into ADSL+ territory (8Mb - 24Mb).