SIRO - ESB/Vodafone Fibre To The Home

TLI on behalf of SIRO started surveying poles in Ballinasloe last week and barcoding them, so any day now......🤞🤞😂😂

It'll be a long long time before anything happens but it might kick Eir into action at least.

Does anyone know the IP addresses for Vodafone TV services? I was going to give this a go GitHub - peacey/udm-telus: A tutorial on how to get TELUS Optik TV working with the UDM and Ubiquiti APs.

I met the lads from SIRO 18 months or 2 years ago surveying in Longford. No sign of anything since until today, when they started installing the ducting. Said Longford should be going love in 3 months.

Nor sure if I believe the 3 months part, but very positive to see the ducting happening. Fibre installed pretty soon after that according to the lads too. Let's go.

Eir installed the ducting and blew the fibre in July last year, but still can't order it, so desperate for SIRO to be available.

Is SIRO available at your new location? If so then in theory you should keep the 200mb upload, as you are not changing provider or conract,

Even though there may be SIRO manholes in the estate there is no guarantee that the fiber is in place. Have you spoke with anyone who is already living there, as they may be able to indicate if the service is available or not. Otherwise you will have to contact Vodafone, as they should be able to tell you of availability and if it is not should be able to give you an idea of when. Hopefully this will be in place before your planned move so that you can transfer your existing account. Otherwise you may have to cancel your current service and re apply at the new address when it is. If this is the case you possibly will lose the 200mb upload speeds unfortunately, as these upload speeds are part of legacy plans, which are no longer available as of July 2021. New customers only get 100mb with the 1000mb packages. This applies to all providers. Again discuss with Vodafone and see what they can do.

I’ve had sky broadband for the last year but the price has gone up to €60 now after the 12 months. Of the companies that use the Siro network, is there a “best”? Like who’s router is best etc? Thanks!

Hi all,

Looking to get SIRO installed on a new build. The house is on a private laneway with two existing houses next door. Both existing houses have SIRO. I've been told by SIRO that its available but Vodafone are saying it isn't. Digiweb have said SIRO is in the area but there aren't any spare connection ports available. Has anyone else come across this issue?

Thanks

Is anyone else having issues with their SIRO Vodafone service today? I'm in Drogheda getting about 650 down but the upload is in single digits, between 1 and 6. I've rebooted everything with no difference.

Thanks. Gave Vodafone a call, they confirmed a fault in the area.

You did not say what service you ordered from Vodafone or what service you have from Virgin so I'll make some assumptions.

Virgin and Vodafone use different technologies and different infrastructure.

Up to recently the Virgin service was almost always delivered on a co-axial cable connected to a Virgin trunk cable.

Vodafone uses one of three infrastructures and will be supplied from a non-Virgin network in one of these ways

1. ESB/SIRO with fibre connected to the ESB/Fibre network
2. eir Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) with copper from the eir copper distribution cabinet (up to 100Mb per second)
3. eir Fibre To The Home (FTTH) with fibre from the eir fibre distribution device (up to 1,000 Mb per second)

Whether it is Vodafone option 1, 2 or 3, a new copper or fibre connection is needed and will be routed from the SIRO or eir service point in the apartment block and as your installer said a route different to the Virgin route. As you suggest it might be less disruptive to stay with Virgin.

Virgin are making a push into fibre, both on their own infrastructure and as an RSP with Siro:

The timeline mentioned is 3 years (from early 2022), but it looks to be the case that they'll be upgrading most if not all of their cable customers to full FTTH.

So maybe stick with Virgin, and they will probably offer you a full FTTH package (keeping your Virgin TV package, etc.) in the medium term.

I know this doesn't solve the price problem though.....

Almost exactly one year later, they're laying the fibre underground/replacing manhole covers. Looking forward to eventually ditching the 12mb down/800k up connection whenever that may be...

😆😆😆, Best laugh I've had in a while, what a load of horseshyte in those articles 😆😆, VM available to 99% of the country... Yea sure lads yeah!!!!

I've just got the keys for a new house. The new estate is enabled for SIRO, and houses that have been built previously within the estate have had SIRO available as soon as the owner got the keys. When I check the SIRO website, it is stating that my address isn't set up for SIRO yet. Has anybody seen this before? Is this just a case of somebody hasn't ticked the box somewhere marking it as available in the house? I need to order broadband soon, I'm currently with Virgin in my rental (and I'm out of contract), so was thinking of trying SIRO with Vodafone or Sky

Tried ringing one of them, and it was a complete waste of time. They didn’t listen to what I explained at all, they just stuck my Eircode into their address checker (which is on their website) and told me I couldn’t get it