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NBI - fibre only running halfway up lane

  • 26-04-2024 2:08pm
    #1
    Happy_Harry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭


    My Eircode shows as up on NBI website with completion Jan-Jul 2025. The was survey done last year(where I specifically mentioned the location of the boxes on the lane) and in the last weeks the guys have laid fibre cable to the last pole on our rural lane, and then this week they were digging and laying cable beside the road.

    I asked one of the lads jokingly, "don't forget about my house", as they were halfway from the pole to my house and he said, well, this here is the last box where we will run the cable. I asked him how I would get connected and he said that that was "up to the installer".

    I don't understand why the cable couldn't be run through to the last box on the lane (beside my house- see drawing below), nor how they will connect me (and my direct neighbours) now. The old Eircom line runs all the way down and there are ducts to house 3 and 4 from that box, so it makes no sense to me ( House 5 was built later).

    Is this a case of me thinking this through to much and the installer will just fix ? It is baffling to me.

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Comments

  • #2
    The Cush
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    Maybe they're running the cable overhead to the remaining houses, especially house 5.

    Cheaper to put in a few of their own poles than put in a duct to house 5. There is an annual cost per metre to reuse eir's ducts.



  • #3
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    You are thinking too hard about it

    Whatever provider you gonwith will do the "last mile" connection.



  • #4
    User567363
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭User567363


    Keep checking your eircode and pre order as soon as its available just in case there is not enough connections for everyone



  • #5
    The Cush
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067664#Comment_122067664

    All existing properties will have a planned connection in the rollout, with redundancy built in for future builds.



  • #6
    BArra
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    each 'box' has multiple ports on it, think its 8. so essentially 8 houses can connect to one 'box'

    box = fibre distribution point

    i dont think you will have an issue, you say ducted to 3-4 so likely the main fibre line will follow same path. they wouldnt have put in a FDP next to your house without a plan to connect you



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  • #7
    Happy_Harry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭Happy_Harry


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122074307#Comment_122074307

    In my case "box" is and old Eircom distribution box with ducts going to houses that I thought would be re-used for fibre.

    Anyway I go with the "I am overthinking it " and will see what happens. Thanks to those that replied.



  • #8
    The Ging and I
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭The Ging and I


    The joys of contractors. They just do whats on the job list.



  • #9
    The Cush
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122076785#Comment_122076785

    In any case fibre from a DP can run up to 500m.



  • #10
    BArra
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122076785#Comment_122076785

    oh, so the DPs arent installed yet ? google Eir DP and its the first image result, albeit is eirs version of a DP, NBIs one is slightly different but similar

    so even if only one DP gets installed on a pole by house 1 or 2 then it likely could serve 4 and 5 also

    its also possible the DPs can be installed in manholes, so not visible



  • #11
    Happy_Harry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭Happy_Harry


    That "Eir DP" has not arrived yet at the last pole, so I guess it was only cable that was laid so far. House 1 and 2 don't have a pole, only underground boxes , which maybe you refer to as manholes ?



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  • #12
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,024 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ours comes from a pole, there seems to be a number of poles before it gets to us.



  • #13
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,784 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122084305#Comment_122084305

    Around my area where fibre is run underground and where there is no underground ducting to a property from the chamber they will mount a lonesome pole beside the chamber to feed the property with fibre overhead.

    I assume based on your diagram house 5, has no underground ducting to the last chamber, in this case a pole will be installed nearby to run fibre across the road, if they choose to connect.



  • #14
    Happy_Harry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭Happy_Harry


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122084409#Comment_122084409

    That makes total sense.. what in my mind doesn't is that the fibre is not run to the the last chamber/box so will they erect poles from house 2 to house 3/4/5 ? Could they use the existing ESB Poles , or are these utility companies very territorial ?



  • #15
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,784 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122084497#Comment_122084497

    How the last mile of fibre will be run will be in the design team's plan for your area and isn't available publicly, so all guesswork until the rollout begins.

    As for the poles, they don't use ESB poles. Where eircom poles and ducts are available they have an agreement in place to use them for an annual charge. If new poles are required NBI will install them.



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