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Eir rural FTTH thread II

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    #3302
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    m99T wrote: »
    Ubnt servers.

    Mjaeh .. don't know so.

    /M


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    #3303
    m99T
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭m99T


    Marlow wrote: »
    Mjaeh .. don't know so.

    /M

    Yeah. Possible they do use Ookla though. Something to be investigated. To busy setting up my own connection in England at the moment to look into it. Copper sucks.


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    #3304
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    m99T wrote: »
    Yeah. Possible they do use Ookla though. Something to be investigated. To busy setting up my own connection in England at the moment to look into it. Copper sucks.

    I'd suspect something on the ubnt end. It looks like it's pinging somewhere in Ireland now. Perhaps they changed something.


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    #3305
    m99T
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭m99T


    Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »
    I'd suspect something on the ubnt end. It looks like it's pinging somewhere in Ireland now. Perhaps they changed something.

    They did release 4.28 for the gateway but that was after this happened.


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    #3306
    AidenL
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭AidenL


    It’s better than 3g on a phone like I have tonight!
    m99T wrote: »
    Marlow wrote: »
    Mjaeh .. don't know so.

    /M

    Yeah. Possible they do use Ookla though. Something to be investigated. To busy setting up my own connection in England at the moment to look into it. Copper sucks.


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    #3307
    m99T
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭m99T


    AidenL wrote: »
    It’s better than 3g on a phone like I have tonight!

    Ok you got me there to be honest.


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    #3308
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    m99T wrote: »
    They did release 4.28 for the gateway but that was after this happened.

    It might not have required a firmware update. They could have done something smart with the routing so that each device is redirected to a server in it's own country or at least closer than the US.


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    #3309
    m99T
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭m99T


    Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »
    It might not have required a firmware update. They could have done something smart with the routing so that each device is redirected to a server in it's own country or at least closer than the US.

    True. Nothing in the changelog about it, but if they were using ookla as a api then 100% possible that could be the case and it wasn't opened.


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    #3310
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Marlow wrote: »
    They have not provided OpenEIR FTTH so far. There are rumors, that that has changed this month, but they definatly would have been the wrong provider to contact back in August.

    /M

    It is much more than a rumour.

    I quoted the prices given to me today via chat with Vodafone, here

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=108052677&postcount=3259


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    #3311
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    It is much more than a rumour.

    I quoted the prices given to me today via chat with Vodafone, here

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=108052677&postcount=3259

    Site is currently down. New packages being added perhaps?

    https://n.vodafone.ie/shop/broadband/gigabit-broadband.html


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    #3312
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »
    Site is currently down. New packages being added perhaps?

    https://n.vodafone.ie/shop/broadband/gigabit-broadband.html

    Quite possibly, as I mentioned the prices not being on the website and was told it had not yet been updated.


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    #3313
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,519 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Those prices are exactly the same as they have for Siro - is someone getting confused? (Or I think they were the same when I was checking many hours ago plus their whole site is down again so don't think its anything to do with updating some prices on a page)


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    #3314
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Those prices are exactly the same as they have for Siro - is someone getting confused? (Or I think they were the same when I was checking many hours ago plus their whole site is down again so don't think its anything to do with updating some prices on a page)

    Are the prices the same as Siro prices?
    They are the same as Eir charges.
    I thought the SIRO prices were a bit lower.


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    #3315
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Those prices are exactly the same as they have for Siro - is someone getting confused? (Or I think they were the same when I was checking many hours ago plus their whole site is down again so don't think its anything to do with updating some prices on a page)

    I thought that but apparently they only now offer 1Gb on SIRO while this promotion is running.

    https://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2057907368/

    It's hard to know the competence of the support staff on chat though.

    I think Vodafone will eventually have to join the network. The bigger it gets the more potential custom they are losing out on.


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    #3316
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Are the prices the same as Siro prices?
    They are the same as Eir charges.
    I thought the SIRO prices were a bit lower.
    Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »
    I thought that but apparently they only now offer 1Gb on SIRO while this promotion is running.

    https://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2057907368/

    It's hard to know the competence of the support staff on chat though.

    I think Vodafone will eventually have to join the network. The bigger it gets the more potential custom they are losing out on.

    The prices are the same as their SIRO prices, so it's hard to know, if they actually are for OpenEIR FTTH.

    The SIRO promotion is seperate (time limited offer) from that and is a special deal, that every SIRO provider, that participates can offer. Not every SIRO provider does, because it also puts obligations on them. It's an initiative by SIRO, not so much the providers.

    /M


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    #3317
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    Vodafone site is back up. There seems to be no changes to FTTH. Still seems to be SIRO only though they are advertising the new Gigabox router.


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    #3318
    davypg
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭davypg


    FTTH is now being provided by Vodafone over the Eir network. SHG3000 modem provided along with ONT on install.


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    #3319
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    davypg wrote: »
    FTTH is now being provided by Vodafone over the Eir network. SHG3000 modem provided along with ONT on install.

    Proof ? Reference ?

    /M


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    #3320
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    Marlow wrote: »
    Proof ? Reference ?

    /M

    Might be a trial like the fabled Sky trials. You certainly don't seem to be able to order it on the Vodafone site.


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    #3321
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,799 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    davypg wrote: »
    FTTH is now being provided by Vodafone over the Eir network. SHG3000 modem provided along with ONT on install.

    nice sleek looking modem - could have done it in white tho


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    #3322
    davypg
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭davypg


    Marlow wrote: »
    davypg wrote: »
    FTTH is now being provided by Vodafone over the Eir network. SHG3000 modem provided along with ONT on install.

    Proof ? Reference ?

    /M
    I installed it.


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    #3323
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »
    Might be a trial like the fabled Sky trials. You certainly don't seem to be able to order it on the Vodafone site.

    No mention of a trial to me on chat today ...... and there was mention of 'two type' of FTTH, one Siro and the other Eir.
    When I said the eir fibre passed my home I was given the prices quoted earlier.


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    #3324
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    No mention of a trial to me on chat today ...... and there was mention of 'two type' of FTTH, one Siro and the other Eir.
    When I said the eir fibre passed my home I was given the prices quoted earlier.

    Their pricing and packages were always structured to accomodate to offer both SIRO and OpenEIR FTTH under the same pricing.

    Vodafone don't offer the the 600 Mbit/s package on residential (Airwire is actually the only SIRO provider that does) and they only "advertise" 300 Mbit/s, even though it's 350 Mbit/s on SIRO.

    There has been rumors in the last couple of weeks, of them starting to offer OpenEIR FTTH ...... their sales guys have so often tried to flog something they didn't have and are at least as clueless as Eir retail.

    And obviously they can't afford to offer the promo on OpenEIR FTTH. The wholesale pricing is just too high and it would be a total loss to them.

    /M


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    #3325
    AidenL
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭AidenL


    Rant incoming, apologies in advance.

    So KN visited my house this morning, short notice of ten minutes, so my wife let the guy in.

    He changed the connectors in the house, checked the DP and confirmed that the DP is now dead after a week.

    He has no idea how long an issue like this will take to resolve.

    So now, from having a 7 meg download, I now have Zero meg, with no idea when this will change. Wish I had stuck with my old copper solution.

    I’m going to enquire about reverting to copper, at least it was reliable, if slow. I only got a week out of the fibre before this happened. Lesson is, never be an early adopter, even if it’s just in your own town land.


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    #3326
    MBSnr
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    AidenL wrote: »
    Lesson is, never be an early adopter, even if it’s just in your own town land.

    I'd say you're just unlucky. I was one of the first in my area and no bother from the physical connection side. Although that's no consolation for your current problem....

    The only issues I had was Vodafone trying to bill me for calls that had already been paid for and there was a 2 day delay porting the phone over as Digiweb tried to process the wrong number at first and not my own.


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    #3327
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,075 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Airwire: MartinL wrote: »
    The exchange you are on is a NGA exchange. So everything is set up correctly in OpenEIRs ordering system. They must have technical difficulties with that exchange.

    We saw something similar with Castlegregory earlier this year, which took them about 2-3 months past the order date to get right.


    I just entered my Eircode into the Eir availability checker and got this

    "Great News!
    Fibre to the Home is available at *******""

    Yesterday on the Eir site, FTTH was unavailable. According the latest update that Airwire was given (11th Sep) there are still no ports available.

    Are they messing with the competition?


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    #3328
    AidenL
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭AidenL


    I have an early cessation charge from eir coming up too, I gave them notice I was moving to another provider, but it seems they disabled my account straight away.

    I was hoping that my old VDSL line would still be active, but seems they killed it off when the number was ported over.

    Of course they will still charge me for a service which they turned off early. :rolleyes:

    Its not getting any easier.

    Seems I'll have to get a new VDSL line in until the DP is back online again, or just invest in a 3g dongle.
    MBSnr wrote: »
    I'd say you're just unlucky. I was one of the first in my area and no bother from the physical connection side. Although that's no consolation for your current problem....

    The only issues I had was Vodafone trying to bill me for calls that had already been paid for and there was a 2 day delay porting the phone over as Digiweb tried to process the wrong number at first and not my own.


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    #3329
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,799 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    MBSnr wrote: »
    I'd say you're just unlucky. I was one of the first in my area and no bother from the physical connection side. Although that's no consolation for your current problem....

    The only issues I had was Vodafone trying to bill me for calls that had already been paid for and there was a 2 day delay porting the phone over as Digiweb tried to process the wrong number at first and not my own.

    are you talking about VDSL FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) ? -because Vodafone have only started offering FTTH in the last day or so


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    #3330
    MBSnr
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    are you talking about VDSL FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) ? -because Vodafone have only started offering FTTH in the last day or so

    Erm not sure what you're on about. I'm with Digiweb FTTH having moved from Vodafone ADSL.

    I believe AidenL is now wth Airwire having moved from Eir.


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    #3331
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,799 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    MBSnr wrote: »
    Erm not sure what you're on about. I'm with Digiweb FTTH having moved from Vodafone ADSL.

    I believe AidenL is now wth Airwire having moved from Eir.

    ah right sorry I got confused when you were mentioning vodafone and FTTH


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