National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Dp fitted to pole today !

how long have i to go?

Hey guys,

I was wondering if any of you had a similar situation or the the best way to approach the installation. I was meant to go live Friday 2nd June, but on the day on installation kncircuit came out and looked at what options were feasible for the premises. Ideally wanted to avoid overhead. As ducting has several bends coming into the house and already has the old eircom cable placed in it before it was put in the ground of the house when it was build in 70's. As the ducting pipe is 20mm/ three quarter inch . I was wondering can we remove the eircom cable or get nbi to or attach it to it to help feed it through? As they were reluctant to touch it as they said it was eircoms. But it's on our land. So I was wondering has anyone experienced anything similar or have a solution? The other alternative was to get a satellite swan neck bracket and mount it to the wall of the house. Which is okay but wouldn't be astectically nice. Ideally if anyone has a solution to the ducting query please let me know.

This what we did. I hired a long fish wire thing but it wouldn’t budge last hockey stick bend. Had a small camera and ran it down and found there was one pipe inside another and was tight bend.

I found contact for ex KN guy from someone and they came out and pulled new rope using the old Eircom line then pulled another back up again with the old eircom line. So now we have fiber line, old eircom line and a spare rope if ever needed. Was a great job.

Well someone got the cable in there originally although they might have fed the cable as they joined up the pipe?

Any idea what the angle of the bends is and how long is the pipe? You can test if you can pull through a new wire by checking if pulling the old one at one end starts it moving at the other, no need to cut the cable just try pulling any slack from each end.

Then again you could go against my advice of trying to get a second cable in and try pushing a fishing line type wire puller through the pipe with the eir cable still in place. If that gets through you know you can pull a cable through.

30 meters with bends is a very long way in a narrow cable with bends. Can you lay another pipe? If the eir cable is in use then don't touch it. It sounds to me like the installers made the right call. If that had been proper 50mm ducting then even with the bends you'd do it.

The only thing that makes me think it might be possible is that your 20mm ducting sounds to small to me to even have any joints in it which would mean any bends would be easier to traverse but not with another cable present 20mm is really only for one cable.

Eir won' t allow you to touch any of what they consider their equipment.

Hope I'm wrong but I think you might be waiting a very long time like forever.

Eir dont work that way.

they will not give you permission to touch any of their infrastructure. you wont get anything in writing either !

Put down the proper 50mm stuff 20mm is just too narrow.

You can buy similar diameter to the red ESB ducting in black or blue for less usually. Pipe Force in Dublin have a good range and will courier or pallet it out

In fact I think there's a green ducting on the go now for telecoms but I haven't used it yet

Surveying our area - Beara Peninsula, - Kenmare side today.

Website is giving us late 24 if connection.

Guys surveying are saying 2 years at least and possibly more like 5.

It's a carbon copy of when we got electricity - 1978, about 10 to 15 years later than most rural areas.

Some bullsh1t.

No different tax rate though.

We only matter here when they want us all to stay home out of their way the day of the Beara cycle...

Very depressing.

Ours is 25/26 and we're wicklow. I don't think you've it bad at all tbh.

Where may these 33 points of handover be found. Is there a map anywhere online?

Yeah, about 55km from the nearest one of those green dots. Fibre about 4km away at the moment.

So i got an email yesterday from NBI that FTTH is available to pre order for my house.

I currently have Imagine Broadband and it is working ok for me, but the tempation of 500MB + speeds is tempting me.

I also currently have Sky Q for tv so maybe looking at trying them for the package?

Any providers that people recommend, or to avoid please?

Do any of them have issues with crappy routers etc?

Thanks in advance

Pre-ordered with Eir today, the follow up email says that the go live date is due within a 45 day period from the pre-order date.

That's really good to know. I cannot wait to be rid of Imagine. I haven't been able to game in the evenings for months due to chronic latency variation and packet loss, and Imagine have been fobbing me off telling me everything is fine and there's no real problem when there is. For over a year now they've been completely unhelpful, won't try to fix my connection in any way.

When I get eir installed they can go feck themselves and take their crap off my chimney and good riddance!

I also see that a lot of providers are offering 2GB/200MB connections now and dang is that tempting.

I can hardly contain my excitement.