Eir rural FTTH thread II

Den Creed

Deleted User wrote: »

Looks like some people may have even longer to wait for faster internet.

And to think eir are starting to rollout fibre to two households on my road, and the rest of us will be stuck in the dark ages on <2mb, well at least there's a three mast 300 metres away, "at least"

shigllgetcha

The only answer to nbp is to pay eir to rollout.

Theyre the only people with the man power, experience and infrastructure

As much as i dont like them they are the only show in town

Gonzo

shigllgetcha wrote: »

The only answer to nbp is to pay eir to rollout.

Theyre the only people with the man power, experience and infrastructure

As much as i dont like them they are the only show in town

Perhaps Eir can now at least fill in the gaps along their 300k rural routes. Nothing to stop them now from running the fibre a little bit further.

snes1000

On the fibrerollout website the yellow line passes by the house, but when inputting the post code into the site, this message shows up "As your premise is outside of a commercial deployment for high speed fibre broadband it is included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP)."
Should I believe the yellow line or the message?

Gonzo

snes1000 wrote: »

On the fibrerollout website the yellow line passes by the house, but when inputting the post code into the site, this message shows up "As your premise is outside of a commercial deployment for high speed fibre broadband it is included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP)."
Should I believe the yellow line or the message?

Most likely true that you are outside where Eir plan to target but the line of text about the NBP is now out of date as the NBP is now most likely dead with all bidders withdrawn from the project.

Johnboy1951

I expect Enet to remain in the process for some little time yet, in the hope that the gov will now more fully subsidise the roll out of NBP, with much less concern about the final cost.

I also wonder if this proposed 'NBP Company' which would then be in full ownership of Enet, could sell some shares to being a partner on board to help with the roll out.

I think there might be some life in it yet ....... IF the gov give up the idea of saving cost and properly fund the roll out.

fritzelly

Cant change the terms of the NBP now

Johnboy1951

fritzelly wrote: »

Cant change the terms of the NBP now

The figures are not set ....... else what was all the negotiation about?

rob808

snes1000 wrote: »

On the fibrerollout website the yellow line passes by the house, but when inputting the post code into the site, this message shows up "As your premise is outside of a commercial deployment for high speed fibre broadband it is included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP)."
Should I believe the yellow line or the message?

Try emailing open Eir with your post code see what they say fiberpower@openeir.ie

tsue921i8wljb3

snes1000 wrote: »

On the fibrerollout website the yellow line passes by the house, but when inputting the post code into the site, this message shows up "As your premise is outside of a commercial deployment for high speed fibre broadband it is included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP)."
Should I believe the yellow line or the message?

It could go either way. The best indication is if you can see work taking place close to your home. Have the poles been replaced, is there new fibre cables at the top of the poles and most importantly is there one of these



relatively close to your home? Are you at the end of the yellow line?

tsue921i8wljb3

rob808 wrote: »

Try emailing open Eir with your post code see what they say fiberpower@openeir.ie

That's not even accurate. AidenL was told he was in the NBP by that account and he has since been passed by fibre.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=106031686&postcount=152

snes1000

Dominique Loud Waistband wrote: »

It could go either way. The best indication is if you can see work taking place close to your home. Have the poles been replaced, is there new fibre cables at the top of the poles and most importantly is there one of these



relatively close to your home? Are you at the end of the yellow line?

Yeah there's two of them pretty close and I'm nowhere near the end of the line.
So I'm guessing I'm covered and the site is wrong, I'll probably find out within the next few weeks anyways.

tsue921i8wljb3

snes1000 wrote: »

Yeah there's two of them pretty close and I'm nowhere near the end of the line.
So I'm guessing I'm covered and the site is wrong, I'll probably find out within the next few weeks anyways.

There's a few possibilities.

1) You are covered and everything is fine.

2) If your house is relatively new there is a chance it was missed when the network was being designed. How old is your home?

3) You are not covered. This seems unlikely given that they have deployed fibre all around you.

What results do you get when trying a neighbour's Eircode (one which is showing as in coverage on fibrerollout.ie) on:

https://www.eir.ie/broadband/1000mb-fibre/

and

http://www.airwire.ie/avail

thecommander

KN engineer came to house this morning to install. Tested the box on the pole, but said our area wasn't active yet. Second call that morning that was the same. Anyone else ever have that?

DrPhilG

thecommander wrote: »

KN engineer came to house this morning to install.  Tested the box on the pole, but said our area wasn't active yet.  Second call that morning that was the same.  Anyone else ever have that?

Same for me.  He said he would put a job in for it and I got an email shortly afterwards to say that it would be live on August 4th and to call again for a new appointment.

shigllgetcha

I had noticed that with us, the fibre is up for every house that will get it but the fibre isnt actually connected to the cabinet, there are maybe 400-500m of poles without fibre actually hung that connect to the cabinet, I wonder is that whats happening?

thecommander

thecommander wrote: »

KN engineer came to house this morning to install. Tested the box on the pole, but said our area wasn't active yet. Second call that morning that was the same. Anyone else ever have that?

"underground cable issue" Eir just said. 30th of August again they can come look. Whole area down.

Marlow

thecommander wrote: »

"underground cable issue" Eir just said. 30th of August again they can come look. Whole area down.

Keep an eye on Airwires product check. The eircode may go to "No ports available" in the next few days and that tells you that the whole segment is out due to a build fault ... (they can hardly have it filled up, if it just went live).

Happened with Castlegregory, Kerry. Went live, the day after it went live went to "ports full" and then about 2 months later became available again.

/M

spillcoe

Anyone have any info on the Fivemilebridge area in Cork? KN have been around for the last few weeks doing cable work on the main road but have no other details. Date on OpenEir rollout map was first half of 2018 then changed a few weeks ago to second half of 2018.

Marlow

spillcoe wrote: »

Anyone have any info on the Fivemilebridge area in Cork? KN have been around for the last few weeks doing cable work on the main road but have no other details. Date on OpenEir rollout map was first half of 2018 then changed a few weeks ago to second half of 2018.

3-6 months after the cable work is done normally. Sometimes quicker.

/M

westyIrl

Just noticed them in past few weeks stringing up fiber from Oughterard, Galway to Glengowla West (a couple of miles of a westerly run)

Hard to spot any splice/DP box along the route, though. Interesting how taut they have that fiber!

Jim

MBSnr

westyIrl wrote: »

Just noticed them in past week stringing up fiber from Oughterard, Galway to Glengowla West (a couple of miles of a westerly run)

Hard to spot any splice/DP box along the route, though. Interesting how taut they have that fiber!

Jim

It's the only thing keeping some of the poles upright around ours. Seemingly in the rush to roll out fibre, throwing it up on wonky poles is ok.... Maybe at some point they'll return to replace them.

Marlow

westyIrl wrote: »

Just noticed them in past few weeks stringing up fiber from Oughterard, Galway to Glengowla West (a couple of miles of a westerly run)

Hard to spot any splice/DP box along the route, though. Interesting how taut they have that fiber, no slack at all.

Jim

A lot of that stretch is going live 8.8.2018 ... next week.

/M

shigllgetcha

Eir seem to have noticed that usage figures disapeared for some people

https://www.eir.ie/support/latest-updates/my-eir-broadband-usage-display-issue/

"my eir" Broadband Usage Display Issue
26/07/2018
The broadband usage display in "my eir" is not showing real-time information for some customers on data allowances. We are working on a solution and expect this to be resolved on 1st August 2018. Your broadband data allowance remains as per the plan you signed up to.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Marlow

MBSnr wrote: »

It's the only thing keeping some of the poles upright around ours. Seemingly in the rush to roll out fibre, throwing it up on wonky poles is ok.... Maybe at some point they'll return to replace them.

On the Glann road, they haven't even cleared the Ivy on some of the poles, meaning it's now a hoist job to connect a house, when such a pole is involved.

There's also already a tree hanging on top of both fiber and copper on the northern segment of the Glann Road ... so fiber and copper are not 3ft from the road .. and that's the more recent rollout.

/M

westyIrl

Marlow wrote: »

On the Glann road, they haven't even cleared the Ivy on some of the poles, meaning it's now a hoist job to connect a house, when such a pole is involved.

There's also already a tree hanging on top of both fiber and copper on the northern segment of the Glann Road ... so fiber and copper are not 3ft from the road .. and that's the more recent rollout.

/M

I guess it's a rushed job to get it up. The install out the Clifden Road leaves a bit to desired too. It'll pulled through clumps of branches out near Leam, zero clearing/triming done though i did see a pole or two being replaced.

AidenL

shigllgetcha wrote: »

I had noticed that with us, the fibre is up for every house that will get it but the fibre isnt actually connected to the cabinet, there are maybe 400-500m of poles without fibre actually hung that connect to the cabinet, I wonder is that whats happening?

Quite a bit of work to be done two weeks before Available date.

Id see that slipping I would think....

Grab All Association

I ordered in May and no light at the DP. Took until the 25th July to get it. Weather can delay it, holidays etc. Its an exceptional service and well worth the two month wait.

People just need to have a little patience as you're very lucky your getting a service that most people in rural Ireland (NBP 500k) can only dream of.

AidenL

Grab All Association wrote: »

I ordered in May and no light at the DP. Took until the 25th July to get it. Weather can delay it, holidays etc. Its an exceptional service and well worth the two month wait.

People just need to have a little patience as you're very lucky your getting a service that most people in rural Ireland (NBP 500k) can only dream of.

Yep, I agree, 1000 meg download possibility is a dream for now, but within touching distance. I have good patience !

westyIrl

westyIrl wrote: »

Interesting how taut they have that fiber!

Jim

When they first installed the fibres around here they were as taut as banjo strings!
Then they came around and replaced them with new fibre that was not so taut, I reckon that the previous contractor used to put up fences for a living, and pulled them so tight that it damaged the fibres.