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  • 17-11-2020 12:59pm
    #1
    Jasx
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    Hi all,
    Just been told that my (rural) house will be soon connected to fibre broadband (FTTH)...exciting times after years with a mobile vodafone unit giving us anything between 15 and 0.1mb (more the latter if its foggy, raining, windy etc etc...:)

    The pole is erected and they have the 'black box' installed on the pole (which im told is a good sign!), i have all the ducts etc installed, ready and waiting. The line isnt live yet so i cant officially apply, but im told this will be live in the next few days. Question is do i have to go with Eir for the initial connection or can i go straight to Vodafone/Sky etc?

    Also as its FTTH i have the possibility of 1gig but is this overkill? Eir offer 'up to' 150mb or 1gig - if i was guaranteed close to the 150 i would be happy with that but i am just wary of the 'up to' (thought this wasnt a thing with fibre?!). My wife and i occasionally work from home with VCs etc and kids could be gorging on Netflix. For the sake of 25 euro im tempted to just go for it but that could go towards Eir/Sky tv etc.


Comments

  • #2
    Dero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 733 ✭✭✭Dero


    Yay, congratulations. I'm waiting for the NBP for FTTH, but I know from experience that there's no comparison to other technologies.

    You don't have to go with Eir. Plenty of other ISPs sell on the OpenEir network. Have a look here.

    As for speed, with FTTH, you have a far higher chance of getting what you pay for speed wise. Certainly, there are no "line quality" issues like with xDSL or wireless etc. As far as I know, the 150Mb minimum has now been bumped to 500Mb. Given the use you've outlined, that would more that enough. The biggest advantage of the 1Gb packages is the better upload, but this is only relevant if you have a need to upload a lot of large files for work etc.

    Best of luck, and enjoy. :)


  • #3
    RichardL1951
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭RichardL1951


    Hope you do get connected in the next few days. I’ve have the fibre optic cable and black box on the road outside my house for 2 years and no sign of being connected. Open Eir customer support are worse than pathetic. I could not reach one person who could tell me when I would be connected. Someone should take a firm hold of that organisation and drag it into the 21st century!


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