National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Where are you? I'm Louth and I'm expecting cancellation as well

Limerick

Screengrab of the deployment map filmed at NBI offices on the RTE Prime Time programme. Five colour ramp (green --> blue) seems to represent deployment progress. Some (minor) differences in the graphical depiction of areas compared to the web version e.g., Athenry, Gurteen, Loughrea, Ballylinan etc.

KN called today despite the weather(Co.Clare).

Said the pole outside "wasn't deep enough in the ground" and he didn't want to stick a ladder against it.

Rescheduled for someone with a hoist to get up there.

Waiting 20+ years for any kind of broadband here, tried so many options that I won't actually believe anything until I see the router get plugged in.😕

I'm shocked. I know we're mad for internet connectivity, but why the hell have KN got anyone out anywhere today? There's no need for them to be on the road, regardless of whether they're installing or "checking".

They are only calling around having a look to see what they can expect when they are able to do the install. It's hardly dangerous, especially in areas where the weather isn't too bad yet.

Anyway, KN just called me with a new date of 17th 😥

Same kn called out, just inspecting as weather is a risk, he said tomorrow or Thursday, eir call two hours later to say Thursday next week, hopefully that's brought back to this week :(

With possible power outages in many part of the country today it prompted me to ask if the local exchanges have generators or banks of large UPS’s to run the fibre equipment and keep the network running in the event of power failures. While I understand it would be beneficial for each fibre customer to have their own UPS to power their own router and ONT to keep call services etc. working during a power outage it would be redundant if the local exchange that the fibre connected to was without power also. 

KN connected me today and after he left the Fritzbox keeps going into a recycle loop of shutting down and restarting. Did the obvious on off etc. Still looping. Contacted Digiweb to be told its a faulty Fritzbox and they are sending me a replacement.

Anyone else have this with the Fritzbox and was it a faulty box and replacement was all that was needed?

Got a call from kn 2 weeks ago asking will we definitely be there on the 1st Dec. We said yes

KN called on the Wednesday evening to do some sort of prep work before they were to call on Thursday so that the crew have no surprises. He said instead of connecting from a pole to the roof they'll connect to an eir port in the front garden. Grand, says I.

Different guy calls on Thursday and says that they'll actually have do a bit of digging so they can run the wire from the port a few feet towards the front of the house and make a new connection point (or something like that). He said as his job is just to lay the lines he has to call another team to do the digging work. Ended up saying that the other crew is busy and they'll be back on Friday.

No sign of anybody on Friday. No sign on Monday. Rang today and they said they're waiting on some sort of licence (?) and that it'll be the 15th before they're back.

POD is on a bit of a rant about NBI again:

NBI updated the figures on their homepage last Friday, the 3rd. From November 2nd to December 3rd the changes were:

Premises surveyed: 272818 > 282030

Designs complete: 226225 > 232139

Premises under construction: 115506 > 156671

Premises available for order: 27758 > 33366

BCPS installed: 386 > 401

A reminder that the available for order figure includes a large number of pre-order premises which can be three months away from actually being passed (even longer judging by posts here).

It seems to me they have little chance of hitting 60000 premises by year end, unless they dump a load of pre-order premises to pad out the figures.

This would lead me to question the NBI and DECC communication strategy in that they consistently over promise and under deliver, essentially giving ammunition to their growing list of critics to beat them over the head with.

O'Dwyer is being disingenuous with his quoting of 4000 connections but it could be argued that NBI are also being misleading with including pre-orders in their figures. I would suspect that of the 33366 premises NBI mention that about 22000 are actually fully passed or RFS (ready for service).

Update on this, the county broadband officer got onto both openeir & NBI, initially openeir said no and NBI said the house wasnt sufficiently built when they did survey so it wouldnt be looked at until mop-up phase. He went back to openeir and they agreed to do a survey. The surveyor had a look, said no technical issue as just under 400m to box on pole, 2 additional road poles & one pole on site required.

Heard last week that we were on the FTTH list and ordered from NET1 last Friday. KN initial inspection is on 16th of this month

Ruairi

Was anything ever confirmed on the whole "looking to accelerate" the rollout or any timeframe on when they'd know if its possible? Seems to have gone very very quiet on that front.

Everything seems to have gone right back to "we are confident we will get this done in 5 years" which would imply there is no acceleration at this point as we are already 2 years into the 7 year plan.