National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Newstalk round-up of past and current issues on 10th anniversary of the announcement of the NBP.

https://link.goloudplayer.com/s/pG6UjXaRx20f

Again, there is little nbi can do if the isps fail to provision, this is not an nbi problem, its purely down to the isp, and any fix will be done within the isp and with no involvement from nbi!

Nbi comoleted their task, provided a working fibre connectiin into your prrmises back to their network, tested it and verified it, there is litle else they could have done beyond that!

I would cancel and go with someone else it will never get any better with eir.

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Update (in bold)...

Area: West Wicklow. Specifically the lane I live on. Blessington DA.

September 2020: One man and an Actavo/NBI van doing a survey.

December 2020: One man taking pictures of poles etc.

26th March 2021: Contractors cutting hedges and trees.

30th August 2021: A crew arrived and strung fiber between the poles.

During the week of 11th Oct 2021 to 15th Oct 2021, a crew arrived and installed a lot of DPs (much more than I expected).

Anticipated availability: October 2021 - December 2021.

Anticipated availability: January 2022 - April 2022.

Anticipated date for connection: April 2022 - June 2022

28th December 2021: My EirCode has moved to "Available for pre-order" in the last few days.

28th January 2022: Pre-ordered with Sky. 500Mbps €35.00 pm for 12 months, no installation fee. Install date 7th July 2022.

1st July 2022: My EirCode has moved to "Ready to Connect". - That's 6 months in "Pre Order"!!

8th July 2022: Received an install date from KN Circet of 26th July 2022.

26th July 2022: One man from KN Circet arrived on install day to do a survey (my words) and declared that duct was blocked, nothing would happen today and KN would be in touch at a later date after duct is unblocked. To be honest, it's what I expected so no big surprise.

5th August 2022: Install crew arrived at 9 am followed by another crew at 10 am to bring the fiber from the manhole to the house. After a discussion, they went along with my preference (the more difficult option) of how to get it to the house. At one stage a lad crawled under the hedge (it's wide) with the conduit in his hand, the other guy fed it to him, a few minutes later a shout. The second guy cut the conduit and two or three minutes later the fibre emerged from it. About 20 meters up along the hedge, the first guy's head emerged (it was very funny) and he crawled out smiling. They also had to take up some kerb stones and dig under the garden edging. Everything was put back perfectly. They were superb, nothing was too much for them. Well done KN Circet and well done Sky for having the service ready to go on install day.

So my (relatively) elderly neighbours got connected to Sky with an NBI cancellation slot a couple of weeks ago. I connected the Sky router for them and did a speed test and they were only getting 30 - 50 Mb download. I didn't worry about it as my own speeds increased dramatically in the first few hours of connection. I only got around to doing another speed test for them today and they were getting anything from 0.2 Mb to 100 Mb download, directly connected to the ONT. i rang Sky and after the usual reset the router, reset the ONT and try on the PC and on the phone, they said they'd send out a new router. If that doesn't improve things, Sky will get an NBI engineer to call back. I'm interested to see what happens as their fibre is passing through a lot of trees from the DP to the house and I'm wondering if it's that.

Fiber usually either works or it doesn't. The risk with trees is that it will damage it. You are unlikely to get a micro bend. Faulty termination or splice may be an issue as well

This sounds like typical Eir incompetence. They simply dont care. No amount of money or savings would ever convince me to pick Eir over any other provider for any communication product they sell. I would rather ring mumbai than their customer service.

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Hi Folks,

Got the Ready to Connect status here at last, hurray!

Any recommendations for providers in general or specific to the area (Youghal).

Currently have VF for fixed line and no major issues but interested to hear if there are any NBI connection pitfalls to avoid!

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Gis an aul Speedtest result there Tony!

Was installed on Thursday, unfortunately the PON light was flashing, the installer reported it to NBI. Anyone had this issue because wondering how long it takes NBI to come out and fix a network issue. Also does anyone have the settings for connecting own router to ONT. I've signed up with Vodafone. Thanks

Pm me asa reminder and i will send you on the settings for vf, i am using my own unifi router unstead of the vf suoplied one

Probably the current Sky offer of €29 for Broadband and €10 for Sky Q lite?

I'm not sure if this will help but I went preorder in 12/21. I preordered with Sky one month later in 01/22. Six months later (07/22) I went ready to order and was connected one month later ((08/22).

I wouldn't be too bothered about preorder. I'm not sure how necessary it is. I'd be inclined to check another isp to see if you can preorder there and if you can, then go back to sky and tell them. If you can't I'd email contactus@nbi.ie and enquire with them.

Seven days since install and still no broadband. Vodafone are offering no updates regarding when it may be fixed. I hope it doesn't take this long to fix issues when it goes down over the winter season.