National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

When I input my eircode I get the same thing. 2gb option. Yet I'm rural Leitrim, Siro and fibre nowhere even close and my max line speed is 1.75mb. NBI months away too. Vodafone eircode check is just wrong.

What's the distance between pole and house overhead?

Can the duct be extended to the pole?

Interesting snippet in an RTE piece on Eirs fibre rollout today:

Notice the 2028 date, not 2026

The date is repeated later in the piece

Whenever Eircom actually do finish there'll probably be a scatter of premises - that they've ignored - within the blue areas (because that's what they're like).

So given that there's no broadband USO, the Minister hasn't yet defined adequate broadband, and ComReg's Copper switch-off decision has been postponed, it looks like (at the moment) that NBI will have to clear up the Eircom mess after Eircom have finished - by some means.

That doesn't mean NBI won't meet their original contract roll-out deadline or even that the Minister thinks they won't.

General question here.

I seen a temporary sign at the side of a rural road here in Donegal, with NBI SURVEYING AHEAD.

How long from that appearing and superfast broadband becoming available in said area?

For me it was just over a year. Our area was surveyed in March 2020 and we went "Available to order" in May 2021.

·       08 March 2020 – Road surveyed (NBI Eircode checker – area pending Survey)

·       March/April 2020 – NBI Eircode checker updated to: “Surveying Underway”  with go live date estimated as Jan-March 2021

·       15.05.20 NBI Eircode checker updated to “Survey Completed” with go live date estimated as Jan-March 2021

·       10.08.20 NBI Eircode checker go live dates changed to as Feb-April 2021

·       01 Sept 2020 – First sightings of NBI vans in the area

·       14 Sept 2020 – local newspaper reporting that network build has commenced in the area

https://www.anglocelt.ie/2020/09/14/build-for-national-broadband-network-begins-in-cavan/

·       24 Sept 2020 – Work on our road commences; Secto branded NBI van and hoist - Damaged poles marked and ducting attached to poles.

·       28 Sept 2020 – Damaged poles replaced

·       05 Oct 2020 - NBI Eircode checker updated to "Network build in progress" and the date changed from Jan 2021 - March 2021 to February 2021 - April 2021

·       17.12.20 – NBI/Secto crew hang fibre cables on the poles

·       16.01.20 – NBI Billboards installed in the area

·       20.01.20 – NBI/Secto crew installed DPs

·       27.01.20 – Text from Digiweb “ Dear Customer, thank you for your recent Digiweb NBI pre order. Your target go live date is from February 2021. We will notify you as soon as we have any further updates. Digiweb 1800285828”

·       29.01.21 – Local newspaper reports first Cavan connection

https://www.anglocelt.ie/2021/01/29/the-allisons-make-a-a-piece-of-digital-history/?fbclid=IwAR2ehfyt8W-Dgpciv8mgPU8H713VxFSZ-1IFrXeX_lt3dun5b3xfgwDYF7A

·       29.01.21 – Some Cavan Eircodes update to “Available to order”

·       09.02.21 – NBI/Secto crew back on our road installing additional DP

·       15.03.21 - NBI Eircode checker updated to "Network build complete" and the go live date changed from Feb 2021 - April 2021 to January 2021 – May 2021

·       01.04.21 NBI Eircode checker updated to go live date of 4th May 2021

·       04.05.21 NBI Eircode checker updated to “Available to order”

·       04.05.21 (9.00am) Text from Digiweb to confirm install date of 07.05.21

·       06.05.21 Call from KN installer to confirm installation time

·       07.05.21 KN installer arrived at 9.30am – install completed at 11.45

·       07.05.21 Speedtest run 551Mbps Download and 55.3Mbps upload (ping 6ms)

According to NBI they have formally agreed, with the Department, the target for the coming contract year. The figure is 185000 premises passed at the end of January 2024 and was mentioned here previously. I had hoped that there would have been a more ambitious revised target considering that at the end of January 2023 there are 118000 premises passed.

https://nbi.ie/news/events/2023/02/22/nbi-agrees-targets-for-current-project-year/

AVM published details of the new Fritzbox models last week:

Looks like the likely product for the ISPs here will be:

FRITZ!Box 5690 XGS

• High-speed fiber optic router for up to 10 Gbit/s
• Supports the XGS-PON fiber optic standard
• Can be used on a fiber optic modem (ONT) with 10 Gbit/s (WAN).
• Mesh Wi-Fi, 4x4 on 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz / Wi-Fi 7, 6E, 6
• Wi-Fi speeds: 2.4 GHz: up to 1200 Mbit/s, 5 GHz: up to 5760 Mbit/s
• 1 x 10-gigabit LAN/WAN port and 4 LAN ports at 1 Gbit/s
• Telephony via DECT, IP/SIP and 1 analog telephone connection (FXS)
• Smart Home via DECT ULE and Zigbee, Matter in preparation
• 1 x USB 3.1 (Gen 2) for mobile broadband dongles (5G/4G) as well as storage media and printers

I must admit I'm disappointed. The only way to utilize wired 2gbps+ connections downstream is to have the Fritzbox act as the ONT in place of NBI's own Nokia box. There should have been a second 2.5gbps+ port to allow downstream multi-gig connections. Still, I suppose the main takeaway should be more ISPs starting to offer 2+gbps connections now that the CPE is catching up.

What does the NBI site say for your eircode?

Thanks!

This is the exact info I logged on to find. (Just seen the initial surveying start on the road)

Communications Regulation and Digital Hub Development Agency (Amendment) Bill signed into law by the President on Thursday.

The Communications Regulation and Digital Hub Development Agency (Amendment) Act 2023 together with S.I. No. 444/2022 - European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022 transposes the European Electronic Communications Code into Irish law

Out of curiosity anyone know whos responsility it is if a pole falls down on a private road? NBI use mostly Eir poles so is it a case of NBI looking after their own ones (that they errected) and Eir likewise?

Asking as my mum is being connected (17 new poles) from the puplic road and she has had a history of poles going down when copper was connected years ago. Road has forestry all round.

So bumped into a guy doing a NBI survey on our road this week. More like I saw the NBI van and road signs out for the survey and I hunted him down ;-)

So our road has been surveyed and the surveyor said that the NBI implementation is normally about 2 years behind the survey :-( Can anyone give me any hope that it might be sooner than that ;-)

Ridiculous really, Eir fibre roll out stopped one house away leaving 4 houses not covered and now the NBI will be running another set of cables along the same road just for those 4 houses. Well 2 houses really as only 2 will take it up the other two houses being holiday homes that are occupied for no more than 4 weeks each year.

Just found the relevant email "We estimate that the premises at Eircode XXXXXX will be connected between January 2025 - December 2026 Current Build Status: Survey Pending" which is in line with what the guy was telling me. The website states the same.

I have a good stable connection using a link to a neighbours fibre connection but it would be nice to have our own.

A friends was surveyed about a year ago and still shows as 2025-2026. There was another guy back in November and he said that he was just snagging (his words) what the first guy did and to expect it inside the year but there's no movement since and website still showing 2025-2026. It's in the first DA that went Survey Complete but with a date of 2025-2026