SIRO - ESB/Vodafone Fibre To The Home

I really really need to get the finger out and ring Vodafone about giving me a better offer. Currently out of contract and paying a whopping €75 a month but just too lazy to ring up...

Unrelated but i wonder when they'll launch 2Gb to more places

Nope! But it'd be nice to get the 200Mb upload back

Hi, I'm still having issues ordering siro through Vodafone and other providers. It's coming up on their systems as no spare ports and therefore they are unable to push the order through to actavo.

SIRO engineers installed the fibre cable and told me there was spare ports in the manhole. They said that there must be a glitch in the system as there is only the two neighbouring houses served.

I have email SIRO about this but haven't received a response or than they are looking in to it. It frustrating have the cable installed to the house but not being able to get the final connection completed.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

Has anyone faced an issue where Actavo could not complete the install because the node outside the house was placed too close to a live wire and it needs to be moved before the Actavo installer is legally allowed to carry out the work?

It's frustrating because I'd guess the box is around 200mm away from the live wire and the regulations state it has to be 300mm away, so I'm basically 10cm short of being able to get decent broadband right now.

This issue has been ongoing for 6 weeks. I've been waiting for someone to come out and do the work, but to date it hasn't happened. I don't even know if it's the ESB's responsibility or someone on behalf of SIRO, but nobody seems to know what the story is whenever I ask each company involved. Is there a phone # for SIRO?

Okay an update to this. A month later i finally got the finger out... The best offer Vodafone would do was €50 for 1GB, this is €45 plus a fiver increase from next month.

Went with Sky instead, €40 for 1Gb, 12 month contract. Happy days!

Just on this for anyone who is curious and also to note at least with Blacknight they use OpenEir, not Siro, However its a Huawei ONT with 2.5G copper. I have one now terminated into my UDM-P and delgihted with the setup.

Is that including the €5 increase from next month, do you know?

Poor guy on the phone said €5 discount was max he could do, went to the manager... €15 was max he could do. I said look Sky is €40, either match that or just give me the UAN. Then he came back saying €50 was the very best. They really make ye go around in circles!

So TLI have been back out over the last three days to install fibre again. Which has me thinking for when the service does eventually go live.

At the moment, Virgin have a fibre to coax terminator in an access panel on the side of the house, this then feeds into the utility room via a coax cable. I'd like, if possible, for the SIRO contractor installer to run the fibre into the utility room using that coax cable as a pull through. Does anyone know if they'd be willing to do that? I'd be at a bit of a loss as to how else they could do the install cleanly because everything goes back to the utility room and that's where the router is. I don't really care about losing the coax cable in the process, there's two others in the panel anyway.

Entering the 13th week now with no sign of the mythical "build team" coming out to fix this for me. Nobody seems to want to take responsibility unfortunately. Emailed SIRO last week and this is all they said.

Problem is, Vodafone are of no help either and just say they are at the mercy of SIRO and it is them who need to fix it.

Is it wired or wireless? SkyQ networking is as flaky as fcuk, I have my main box and mini box connected by cable through a gigabit switch and can still get connection errors especially the mini box not seeing the Q box, it's a pretty **** system tbh. I'm using VM BB with the VM router, I tried using my Asus router but like yourself it was terrible.

Just did that a few days ago and all has been good so far (I actually turned off the WiFi on the router which made both boxes go to the cables) it's a pity there's no option to forget this network, at one stage the Q box was on the WiFi and the mini was on the cable😔

This may be a coincidence but last week there was a few ESB technicians out fixing a street light bulb but today a bunch of SIRO technicians were digging in the exact same spot. I ask them what they are doing and they told me they were doing a survey to see if fibre could be pulled through the ESB ducting. They dug a hole, found a black pipe (not the red ESB ducting I had seen before) and cut it open to check if it contained the power cable before filling it all back in.

I had presumed the 60s estate I live in would be last in the line to get any sort of fibre as both the electrical cables and phone cable run underground so it would be too expensive to upgrade added to the fact with Virgin already in the area it wouldn't make financial sense.

So I was wondering what is likely to happen next?

I tried searching for keywords but it seems the search won't show me the 57 results https://www.boards.ie/search?domain=discussions&query=survey&sort=-dateInserted&scope=site&name=SIRO%20-%20ESB%2FVodafone%20Fibre%20To%20The%20Home&source=community&discussionID=2057131437

Hi getting fiber installed this week. Did anyone have any issues installing in timber frame house and do you have any images of the set up inside and out?

Where did you want it placed? Did they say why they wouldn't put it where you wanted?

Anyone else on Siro in Wicklow? I'm currently experiencing my 5th major outage in just over 4 months (where I'm counting major as dead for hours). Are Digiweb BS'ing me blaming Siro or is the infrastructure really that prone to problems? Is Eir FTTH any more reliable? Didn't have a single outage with Virgin but you pay a good bit more...