National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

I thought as much but it's just annoying knowing that technically you are set-up but there's just no way to get someone to come out and install until it's showing as "ready" on the sales side.

SIRO actually went in through the ESB hole about 2 weeks ago. I spoke to them at the time too and they said it's usually around 5 weeks until sales will allow you to order. Still nothing on the SIRO website and no internet at all available to order on any reseller sites.

The guy from SECTO actually said he was from OpenEir so I called Eir originally but was told it must have been NBI as once the house is showing as covered under the NBI website Eir won't touch it. Both Eir and SIRO are installed in the previous phase about 50m from me :(

The problem seems to be just getting any information as the people on sales stop just short of telling you your house doesn't exist because it's not on their map yet. Was wondering if anyone with a similar experience managed to get anywhere.

That's good to know, cheers for that. I figured that the information Eir gave me was wrong there, you would imagine the guy from SECTO was correct in who he was working for :D

I actually got a call from DigiWeb today as I had enquired and he told me something very similar in that I would likely get OpenEir or SIRO before anything. I would like to go with them if I could for the modem they offer but kind of stuck on this mobile broadband contract now so the only to upgrade that would be to take out a contract with Eir.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for some sort of update in the next few weeks anyway - some great offers right now for new customers and broadband. Just annoying people are left waiting for a datasheet to get filled and updated before being able to order or get any sort of date at all.

Have had fiber nearly a year perfect until tonight when the internet keeps cutting out every 15 mins currently with Vodafone, any ideas?

Diffusion probably.

What were they doing, rolling out fibre along the poles, installing distribution boxes?

One distribution box can serve up to 12 premises iirc from info posted here recently.

I wouldn't panic as the install crew will run fibre from the distribution box all the way to the house once the rollout is complete and goes live for service.

I saw NBI are doing work in Drogheda on the old Dublin road near the Black Bull Inn. This area would surely be well served already but it could be to get a feed from there to another area.

Thanks for replies

I live on a small byroad close to Castlebar town and according to NBI's mapping the 3 houses (including ours) are eligible for connection !

For the last year and a half, everytime I check the progress, I get the same message ..

"Network Build in Progress and Anticipated date for connection:XXXX 2022 - XXXX 2022. 

It now shows up as "Network Build in Progress and Anticipated date for connection: May 2023 - July 2023. 

It's ONLY 3 house's .. I met a fella who works for Circet (contractors for NBI) and he told me that all of Castlebar has been completed ??

Last October, a fella from Vodaphone called to the house, and in anticipation of the then upcoming connection, he got the three house owners to 'sign up' with them for the service... but I haven't heard anything form Vodaphone since ?

Is the problem that there's only 3 house involved ?

Fibre run from pole to house happens on day of install.

Poles run the far side of the main road. Fibre is up on them but hasn't linked across to the pole at the top of our driveway yet.

Done first thing yesterday morning. Luckily it's the same provider for us.

each distro box has up to 12 fibre ports already pre assigned, one for each eircode. most boxes out the country only connect 3-4 premises due to spacing

No trees or branches to worry about and the duct carrying the copper line is free, they can use the copper line to pull the fibre if needed.

There'll only be 3 of us coming off this DP and not much chance of any new builds popping up either.

I might start pulling the cat6 through the house this week so and be half ready for install. The entry point is at the wrong side of the house so I'm going to have to put a few access points through the place.

Does anyone know of a table/ spreadsheet that exists which compares the different offerings / prices/ contract lengths etc ? I know the offers change but perhaps it exists?

Would also like if the type of router is mentioned.....long shot perhaps

Ducting laid last few weeks ago at pole opposite my house, neighnours eithe side of me have access to broadband with years but since im new house the pole outside my house was skipped so nbi installed ducting to main dp pole that all older houses are attached to other day. Says network build in progress and jul-dec24 connection, any hope of it being quicker? was told by nbi i was one of a few houses that were missed by network providers originally. Also will they do ducting along my lawn or will that be up to me?

In a rural area in the NBI and Openeir networks four ports (ie available connections) for each distribution point is the most common. This is due to how both networks are built. One fibre strand from the exchange is fed into a 1:8 splitter, your original one fibre is now eight fibres, these eight fibre strands are fed into eight 1:4 splitters. Your one original fibre stand is now capable of serving 32 premises. One 1:4 splitter is in the majority of distribution points which is where the four available ports comes from. The number of physical output connections on the 3M boxes is irrelevant and means nothing. The Openeir box pictured above was the standard one used across their rural build. NBI use different sized boxes but again the physical outputs don't tell the full story.

There are some exceptions, for an estate a DP might have eight connections, or drops as they are known, available. A very isolated premises might have one drop available from a DP. I have never seen twelve drops from a DP on the NBI network and it makes no sense if you think about trying to connect twelve drop cables to a pole that likely has legacy copper cables on it. The design will try to minimise the effort an installer has to go to in order to connect a premises.

On Eircodes, an Eircode can have multiple connections or drops or ports associated with it. It is not as simple as saying each Eircode gets one connection. Close to 20% of Eircodes in the NBI network will have more than one connection available to it. The most common scenario here is a home and farm that share the same Eircode. Both the home and the farm will have separate connections available.

Not sure if this is a typo in a recent Dáil PQ