National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Yes indeed, great to see. Finally high speed fibre coming to rural West Cork

Thank you, might have to do some sweet talking because the old line I found but is about 15m away now from the comm's room.

Locally fibre was down for a week when some storm took out all the trees down one country lane. That would be the worst I've come across. Normally much much quicker.

Hopefully their billing department is using the above dates!

I ordered fibre from Eir on 1st Dec once I got the NBI email. I've had 2 visits since to the house. 2nd visit was a survey of the site as I need a pole as no ducting can be found (there was ducting as the old copper line came in via a duct). So I've to get a tree cut for a pole to be placed. I'm still 4/6 weeks away from next update / visit I'm told. A house down the road has similar issue, but less work and only needed 2 visits so from order to install was 8 weeks.

The old phone line came in underground in a duct, but cannot locate the duct anywhere or even where it starts. It was the old landline to the house. They will try bring the fibre in via a duct if that is an option, rather than overhead.

But in my case, they've have to dig up the whole garden so they just said a new pole so and they will bring the fibre into the attic via the gable end.

It will come into house and connect into a fibre termination box & ONT and then your modem will plug into this. You will need 2 power sockets available also for this. This is usually placed on inside wall at entry into the house.

Basically a small white box. And the router will plug into this then.

You'll see plenty of examples of them on google images.

You can get an estimated timeline by entering your Eircode here: https://nbi.ie/map/

I just tried a random Eircode just outside Monasterevin and it says:

The timelines seem to vary quite a bit per DA. We were surveyed in May 2021 and are scheduled for connection April - June this year. It's usually less than that though I think.

They'll do that.

Seems to depend on installer, but more unlikely tbh. They want to install these as close to it's point of access into the house and a power supply.

Realistically folks with additional install requirements should be running cat 6 to location they need for other routers or ideally get a mesh network in the house.

If you have ducting for them they surely would. What is the path of the 10M run?

Yes have a Unifi mesh already in the house. I could run a long cat6 cable from the main comms room to the new wifi router if that was the option. My preference would be to install the router in the comms room which is already connected to everything but I think I might end up just running the cable internally myself.

I am just thinking, they install a wall point, could you then just run the cable from the wall point, up into attic and down into comms room and have router in comms room?

Or does the router have to be beside the wall point? or can it be extended away?

Plan A is the best followed by Plan C. I'm building a new build right now and aiming for Plan A first and have left Cat6 in place to go to Plan C if that dont work.

I feel your pain, survey was done here last year sometime and mid December Circet installed fibre in the ducts and put new boxes on gables beside the old copper drop points. Got talking to the fella doing it and he said should be available to order in a few days. Nothing yet and NBI still says April to June

NBI Fibre installed by KN today, nice chap installed it and he had no problem with getting through some trees and running it along the attic into the office. He wasn't pure negative like earlier lads who called that wouldn't even walk through a bit of high grass. He must have been on site here for 4 hours.

How long before it will be active? Will it be Tuesday at this stage?