National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

So got a call back from the same person to be told they can't go ahead with the install as there is no pole there yet!! I asked when the pole to be put in, they don't know....... Waiting on a supervisor to call back.

If this is KN, I wish you the very best of luck. Put an order in for some Rogaine, you'll need it.

Not really they had to get maximum bang for there buck as they had a limited time frame. Did they deliberately leave areas that they could develop into later, I expect so.

The funny thing is that when they went into receivership the government could have bought them back for 1.6-1.8 billion. 2 billion with that would that would have solved BB. Eir is probably worth 4 billion now.

Sham of a company not really like any private enterprise they are maximising there worth. They have will give BB to more house than NBI and will not be paid a penny for it.

I often wonder what really is the incentive for Eir to bother with rolling out into areas already marked under the IA?

Like for example my estate is FTTC but due to distance, max speeds are ~13Mb. So people will either pay for that service (same cost as what FTTH people pay) OR some people who investigate/lucky enough to be able to get it, will sign up to a Wisp or pay extra for Starlink.

I suppose the more WISP/Starlink type connections in these sort of areas may give Eir a kick up the arse, but outside of that, if people are already paying 35 quid a month for **** DSL speeds, why would they even bother investing money to roll out FTTH instead?

What do OpenEir gain by this? Getting in ahead of the NBI so in 6 years time ISPs will pay NBI instead of Open Eir?

Where can I get an estimate of speed with a fiber to the cabinet or where can I check for the cabinet online?

That's good news! What provider are you with? Other posters have mentioned around a 550Mbps down on a 500Mbps package and around 800Mbps down on 1Gbps. That's the first post I recall seeing where a 1Gbps package exceeds.

1028Mbps is probably overreported unless NBI are overprovisioning (possible as they do apparently have 10Gbps capable equipment) AND the poster has 10Gbps capable NIC and router (again theoretically possible but unlikely).

Speedtests can over-report, I've seen 1.1Gbps on Fast.com on SIRO which I know is wrong as I only have a 1Gbps NIC and Router. Ookla tops out at around 940Mbps which seems more accurate accounting for overhead.

Edit: Xbox Series X NIC is only 1Gbps so definitely not correct speed test if done on that. The time to download the 102Gb game is more like 600Mbps, still very good but not >1Gbps

That's what came up, yeah I'd say I'd never reach that but interesting to see

I got an update email this morning saying estimated installation Jan 2023 to Dec 2024. Also says survey underway. Kanturk / Newmarket area Cork. Have seen NBI vans around other the last few weeks

Got an email today with an update saying 2026 lol atleast it’s better than not knowing

:(

Has anyone here managed to pre-order in November 2021 with Vodafone?

Long story short - Preorder went in November... no confirmation emails or texts... called Vodafone back 1st of Dec when service went live... promised me they'd get an appointment booked in.... 21st Dec (and several phonecalls later) and Vodafone still haven't booked me in.

Rang Eir and they had an installation appointment for me in 2 days. Looks like I'll be switching providers to Eir on Jan 7th.

A bit like Irish Water 🙄

We seem incapable of running anything in this country.

At least Irish Water had some sense behind it - a very reasonable payment for supplies of water and disposal of crap. Shooting that down was a significant self inflicted wound. When you hear the hoi polloi now giving out about shite in their waters where they want to go sea swimming or boil water notices, I have a chuckle. Talk about being led up the garden path.

Tipp DA - Just went from "network build in progress" -> "Available for pre-order"