€ircon - Self Install - R U connected yet?

ando · 21-04-2003 4:05pm

yeah i think its every eircom enabled exchange, I remember seeing something in the via thread

DSLinAbsentia · 21-04-2003 9:40pm

Sooooo - is anyone connected then?

donutheadhomer · 21-04-2003 10:39pm

seems not. let just hope thats its tomorrow

DSLinAbsentia · 23-04-2003 3:32pm

I've been informed that it will be Friday or Monday. Hopefully that's a Friday or Monday in April!

I'm a Friday 11th (in AM) RADSL Orderer.

donutheadhomer · 23-04-2003 3:39pm

don't you just hate them for that. No intention of informing anyone when they intend upgrading

NITEMAN · 23-04-2003 10:08pm

At last.
Got my self install kit in the post today.
I'll set it up (probably Friday at this stage) and get back.

Colin_Celbridge · 23-04-2003 10:31pm

what is in the kit?

Caffine · 23-04-2003 10:36pm

cd with software , splitters that sort of thing i think

DSLinAbsentia · 23-04-2003 10:48pm

Software? Pour quoi? It's a DHCP server at the remote end. What do you need software for? Don't tell me it's some bastardised €ircon login client piece 'o' crap?

Elucidate me now!

Caffine · 23-04-2003 10:57pm

from what iv read (i actually read eircoms guide, how stupid am i) it is indeed a bastardised €ircon login client piece 'o' crap

DSLinAbsentia · 23-04-2003 11:31pm

If you're referring to the "i-streamuserA5.pdf" document (kudos €ircon, good doc!), then you can breath a sigh of relief and put the CD to one side and just use your normal connect. You dinny need it - it's just branded client fluff - you can use the normal Win32 remote authentication.

For those of you not bound to Microsnot tat, it's double fluff with knobs on. Use the CD as a coaster....

Colin_Celbridge · 23-04-2003 11:50pm

Phew. I though I had missed something. I half expected there to be something good in Eircom's Box of Tricks. How was it delivered?SDS or regular post? Does it fit in the letter box or do I have to wait even longer by collecting it in person at AnPost?

shurl · 24-04-2003 9:01am

WTF!.
Rang Eircom last night asking where me DSL was.
Biddy told me that they had a problem with their manuals, there was errors in the doc so it was sent back to the publishers?
Hmmm, BS me smells.

Also they were "swamped" with orders?

She told me that they were now telling people 15 working days instead of the original 10.
So I was to give it another week!!

She was happy to give me my username/password though
fat lot of good without a feckin dsl connection.

I want it now damit! I have downloads that need doing:-)

S.

Supercell · 24-04-2003 9:39am

If you have a dsl "modem" and your username and password..then why wait..just plug the modem into your regular phone socket, make a new broadband connection , with your user:pass, and away ya go! (afaik)

shurl · 24-04-2003 9:41am

Fraid not, tried it first thing last night :-)

Line hasn't been DSL enabled yet.

S.

DSLinAbsentia · 24-04-2003 12:12pm

K - was in touch with the online chat folks in €ircon again this morning. It seems it'll now be by Tuesday next before the kit arrives.

The Dun Laoghaire exchange is scheduled to be activated tomorrow. THough, technically 10 working days puts that at Tuesday also.

Regnak · 24-04-2003 4:36pm

Well,
I missed Eircom calling me last night to give my password to me. I rang their Sales people on 1800503303 and they put me onto Tech Support 1800460260 after giving me a security ID to verify my identity. Got some my password off them and asked them about anything else I'd need to configure my Router with - they gave me the cpi/vci numbers 8/35 and to use PPoE. That's all I'd need they said. Still waiting on the darn Splitter in the post. The tech enquired if I was going to need to install the Eircom CD client but he realised I had a full fledged router and wouldn't need it.

Now all I need is the Splitter and an Eircon person in the local Exchange to make things happen.

I'm using a Seg Vigor 2600W box in the hallway to connect to a USB 802.11b wireless adapter in my bedroom - I live in a rented house to it saves me throwing wires up the stairs ! The signal is good - might even take up surfing with a laptop from my car in the driveway !

Doesn't look like anyone who's gone for the self install is connected yet, so close....so close !!! And all those Matrix trailers to download.......!!

Mike

Yelnahs · 24-04-2003 4:56pm

ye still nothing yet, all we need is patiance, its comming, finally. but ye as said b4 i have SO much to download, which includes Doom 3 demo which is 2 Gigabytes, hehe thats half me cap.

oh ye a quick question, Becoz Eircom bill u every 2 months, does that mean that u have an 8 Gig cap for the 2 months, or will they (in theory) charge u if u use 5 gigs in the 1st month and 3 in the second month? any1 know?

NITEMAN · 24-04-2003 7:48pm

i returned home from a trip today to what i thought was my eircom starter kit.
and what was here waiting for me .
a bill, not a f**king starter kit.
i bet the push the date out again next week

-Wheeler- · 24-04-2003 8:10pm

At last - I've been looking around for some kind of bulletin board for fellow suckers who have ordered i-stream self install from Eircom.

I, like most of you ordered on the 11th April, and have I got my password/username or my modem ??? Not a chance. I haven't heard a thing. I've tried ringing a few times to see whats going on - but I am just told that there are delays, with no more information forthcoming.

Have any of you ordered the ethernet modem from them ? How does the package arrive - by regular post or courier ?

wheeler_1028.

Yelnahs · 24-04-2003 8:21pm

aint even got ur password yet? thats bad.

i got my password, my other stuff shud arrive sOOn, and nah i got my modem off Belgacom (belguim) for 40 yo-yos, ALOT cheaper, and it looks like a manta ray

god's toy · 24-04-2003 8:36pm

rang em up and it's bad news...... modems wont be out till next week next. (for some that is)

-Wheeler- · 24-04-2003 8:58pm

Just for clarity - :

It's now almost 2 full weeks since the launch. Eircom say on their website that the service will be up and running in 10 working days.

Has anyone even received the starter package yet, nevermind having the service turned on ???

50Cent · 24-04-2003 9:03pm

Well if mine isnt hear this weekend like promised...im cancelling this bull****.

Yelnahs · 24-04-2003 9:04pm

ye some1 on page 2 of this topic got his starter pack 2day, thats all i have heard of

AB03 · 24-04-2003 9:31pm

i dont want to stick up for eircom or anything but...

11th april -> today (24th) = 14 full days but only 10 working days

BendiBus · 24-04-2003 10:40pm

Just to be extra fair to Eircom, its only been 7 working days.

You don't count the 11th, Good Friday or last Monday.

So next Tuesday will be 10 working days.

Not that I expect to be up and running next Tuesday!

DSLinAbsentia · 24-04-2003 11:16pm

I've been told next Tuesday, 29th APRIL (doh! Thanks wheeler_1028!), is my go online date. I've been told this over the last 3 days by 3 different reps, so it must be the truth (holding back the laughter, holding....holding)

-Wheeler- · 24-04-2003 11:23pm

29th of April I hope !

shurl · 25-04-2003 1:37pm

I wouldn't be surprised if Eircom chose to release on the 11th BECAUSE of the 2 non working days.

Feel free to tear strips out of this lunchtime thought :-)
--Eircom release on the 11th, they say 10 working days.
--BUT there is two extra non-working days during those 10.
--They get staff to work ?? maybe those two bank holidays.

hence they get two extra days to get though the work,

so noone can bitch about the 10 days are up, cus technically they aren't

covering their asses?

S.

€ircon - Self Install - R U connected yet?

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