National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Like many others in the Tipp DA I also got connected today with Vodafone. The lads at one stage were trying to work on 3 houses at the one time, busy boys. All is looking good so far .

First is the wired connection and second is wifi in the adjacent room to the router.

Still haven't managed to connect my Ring doorbell .....

i am using two ax routers, same room delivers roughly 900Mbps to compatible devices

I initially contacted the DCCAE via email last October to get the premises reclassified and we're still no further on. A recent update from the DCCAE states that apparently our premises was added for reclassification too late to be within the first 4 batches of premises, which have been confirmed for reclassification. According to the DCCAE, we lie within the fifth batch of premises and this is where Open Eir stepped in and said that they will provide fibre to. The timeframe for this is unknown.

It's just crazy to think that none of the 14 houses on our cul-de-sac road are getting anywhere near the 30Mbps benchmark for NBI, yet only the 2 houses at the end of the road have the NBI fibre. The infrastructure is ready to go outside our gate.

Does anyone know how the "customer escalation" process works with NBI? Contacted them on Twitter and the 'contactus@nbi.ie' email with no luck.

And they are a complete waste of time. They have a script to use and go off the same info on the website that we have.

If its a case of your house is outside the intervention, follow what some of the folk posted up above.

If its a case your unhappy with the wait time. Join the club :D

Who are you even talking to here? :D

If it was a reply to me,, I've no idea what Trant is trying to get in touch with them about. Just calling out a few points save him time.

I presume @trant is on about their earlier comment

I've managed just above 800 on a U6 Lite in the same room (sometimes more like 500-600). I usually get at least 300-400 everywhere in the house. Testing with iPhone SE 2020.

What client have you using the 160mhz channels? I've yet to see a phone support it. Is it a laptop? I've an Asus-centric config here as well (GT-AX6000 router and 2 x AX86U as AIMesh satellites)

Good to see more people being connected here and it seems there was a large batch of premises released for order/pre-order last Wednesday. Going by the NBI news page there were over 14000 premises made available in various regions. Again the devil is in the detail as it is not clear if they are counting previously released premises and the order versus pre-order split is never made clear. The premises counter on the NBI home page has not yet been updated and is still stuck sub 60000 premises.

It's great to be able to watch something without it buffering every 5 minutes

check the printed text on the cable, it'll be either open-eir or NBI.

NBI have published their revised 2022 targets on their political reps page.

Premises under construction

Premises available to pre-order (Can place order for delivery within 90-day window)

Premises passed (Typically available for connection within 10 days)

No figure for this but seems slightly over 100k

A good percentage of people living in rural areas are older people. There is a misconception that everybody is internet savvy.

Even in urban areas there is a lot of people that can manage with mobile phone internet coverage. Most younger people renting are able to manage with this and work from home in larger urban areas.

Broadband is only really an issue in Rural Ireland where mobile coverage is really poor. When you factor in that the minimum cost of a bill is 40/month and goes to 60+ when you go for higher speeds or go out of contract.

There is a large percentage of people that go Pay as you go with mobile and with electricity. If you factor all this in it's easy to see why take up rates are where they are. This is another reason why the higher estimate of the costs of this contact are going to be where we end up at.

I hate you 😭

man I’d kill for 10% of that