National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Thanks for replying. I am stuck between Racecourse and Galway Road :) And have missed 2 calls from Digweb today since I applied for the pre order

Happy days, me too. I'm on the same route as you and also preordered with Brisknet.

Ossian Smyth confirming range of total premises passed by end 2022.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2021-09-28a.341

Today was install day

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OK I have Calmed Down... actually no

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There are five ribbons in the Roscommon deployment area, A to E.

146 days of preorder and install day had arrived, the pre implementation call this morning and KN van arrived at 9am

Happy Days and then I open the door to the installer who says is your phone line going to the chimney......Yes .....and you have no underground duct ........No

Well I am sorry to say you will have no install to day. WTF

SO fibre is running on the opposite side of the road and as my house is a bungalow with no other high point to achieve the 4.5 metres clearance over the road it requires the install of a pole on my property. This was not identified on the survey in fact the NBI survey indicates an underground duct to the house under the road which is not the case.

Installer goes back to van to report the failed installation and what to do next. 40 mins later comes back to me to detail what he is putting on his report with the request for pole installation. so I ask him to check there are no other issues before submitting as in where is he connecting to a DP as there is none on the pole accross the road. he says survey from NBI shows concrete duct running along road under junction with another road to DP on other side of this road about 50 metres away. he sticks screwdriver into ground....silence and keeps doing it and then accounces there is no duct there, yes says I they simply dug a trench put cable duct for single fibre cable into ground and covered it up.

So how am I supposed to do installation he asks!!!!!! He showed me the survey plan he was working to which was horseshit. There follows another 40 mins of the 2 of us identifying how we might get the fibre overground from the DP to my house, which we finally did with KN having to put in a 40 metre trench from a new pole in my garden with visibility to another pole nearer the DP. THe only saving grace is the pole can be put on my property I am told if not possible on my property it would have to go through council for permission

On inspection he also discovered there is a metre of exposed fibre ducting lying on the side of the road which could easily be damaged by a vehicle that has also been reported to NBI.

He submitted the alternative approach for installation for approval. While we are waiting I said I must be unlucky, sadly this appears not to be a case and he outlined only a third of his installs for the week had completed successfully and to be fair to the guy i will not put the details here of what happened on the other failed installs but I am afraid to say this is a shitshow.

2 other installers arrived and they were saying the survey was done via google maps as they are coming across other misidentification of current connections and ducting

Anyway where am I now

no broadband

have to await a pole and ducting install date

then a new install date

we sail towards day 147 of preorder with the good ship SS NBI

No links for this I'm afraid, it is not publicly accessible information. I have various sources within the industry.

Thanks you!!! I have just squeeeze into ribbon A :)

The phone line should never have been connected to chimney by eircom. They should have installed pole for phone line. They indicated it was never recommended practise to do so but are coming across many in my area

I'm in E. Probably makes sense to be last. The majority of the area in E is already connected via Eir to FTTH. Hope I get connected before Christmas.

Next years lads we'll all be able to stream Roscommon lifting the Sam Maguire in 4k on a dozen devices each.

Well a man can dream, right?

Install day today. I had a duct run to the nearest pole into the house. Engineers had it pulled in within an hour.

Tidy install and no hitches connecting my home network(I have a switch/NAS/media Servers etc) and the house is wired cat5. Initial speed from the installers diagnostic was well north of 500mbps .

I have the FritzBox and am with Digiweb so want to check out some of the router settings but speeds are solid.

Genuinely never thought we would have decent DSL nevermind fibre out where we are. Well done to the NBI!

Speed Test showing before (Imagine) and after. Imagine would have varied between no service and 50mbps but crucially their uploads were terrible so i had a lot of bother working from home with them.

First if all, sorry to hear you're having a bit of bother. But if an installer spends this length of time on one single solitary premises then this is going to take a veeeeery long time to roll out!

It is exciting for sure. Sorry for raining on your parade. I felt the same when I saw them on the cherry pickers outside our place! Whatever about imagine, I know that after the initial survey of our area (pre covid) we had a crowd called efone go door to door and they signed an unbelievable amount of houses in our area alone. ( they have a distinct antenna on all the houses)

I'm taking encouragement from the connections others are posting (though I do worry about the state of my ducting!)

Galway City Da. We are just on the fringe.