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Broadband / Robertstown / Allenwood / Kilmeage

sc9736 · 2014-05-19 10:12:30

Hi all, So sick of having rubbish broadband - we only get 1.6mbs - Eircom told us our line can only take upto 1.9mbs!! Usually spend most of time on 3g as faster! Last week I see 3 eircom vans outside our estate beside telephone exchange and they said they were installing efibre! Would be another 2 months before up and…

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19-05-2014 11:12am

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sc9736

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Hi all,

So sick of having rubbish broadband - we only get 1.6mbs - Eircom told us our line can only take upto 1.9mbs!! Usually spend most of time on 3g as faster!

Last week I see 3 eircom vans outside our estate beside telephone exchange and they said they were installing efibre! Would be another 2 months before up and running. Woo hoo

So I get onto Cust services today.........and they no nothing about it at all. No plans for efibre in our area.

What's going on!!!

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#2 19-05-2014 1:21pm
gerrowadat

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Most of the time one part of eircom doesn't know what the other is doing.

I'm moving to robertstown this summer and plannig on seeing if I can just get a mast and use 3G. 5Mb DSL, which is not all that much better then yours :-/

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#3 19-05-2014 3:36pm
cgarvey

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sc9736 wrote: »

What's going on!!!

eircom retail generally don't know about the availability of eFibre until it has been signed off by the contractors installing it. They have a map which does show plans for Allenwood (and spots of surrounding areas like Kilmeage). Most are scheduled for August (2014), but that might vary a bit.

Keep an eye two things:
1) The installation of new green "street cabinets" (see this post for help identifying them
2) The eircom eFibre map (above) for when Allenwood/Kilmeage/etc. go green. They are currently just patches of blue (Aug '14), but those patches may well extend when they go green (depending on the actual rollout).

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#4 22-05-2014 8:17am
nilhg

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http://www.eircomwholesale.ie/Our_Network/

Click on NGA Fibre Broadband Network, than click on the all checkbox, that'll give you the location of the various cabinets.

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#5 03-06-2014 10:59pm
Saurelin

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gerrowadat wrote: »

Most of the time one part of eircom doesn't know what the other is doing.

I'm moving to robertstown this summer and plannig on seeing if I can just get a mast and use 3G. 5Mb DSL, which is not all that much better then yours :-/

Hi we are moving to Robertstown too during summer.

Our friend who used to work for Eircom said that the e fiber should be available soon (I.e. by next summer)

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#6 13-01-2015 9:23pm
mSe265

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Hello, we are thinking of moving to Kilmeague and were wondering if there was any update on the broadband/fibre? The eircom map says the cabinet is live, but does availability depend on the particular house?

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