National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

Ours went to pre order four weeks ago. Due to be connected on Monday. It had been down as Oct to Dec 24

There's a few actual diaries back on the thread, eg @Dero's here and here, or @theguzman's here.

Was due to have fiber installed today and got a text at 8am confirming a 1200-1600 slot. Had taken a day off work for it but no installer turned up. Phoned KN to be told that my appointment was cancelled due to "unforeseen circumstances" but nobody bothered letting me know. Told them I was annoyed with this and the fact that I had taken a day off for nothing. Trying to get an appointment for tomorrow but don't hold out much hope, and if they can't god knows when as I can't keep taking days off for this. Any similar experiences and how long did it take to rearrange an appointment?

KN do the installation for Vodafone, they texted me appointment details and the contact number is KN's. It now looks like it's being done on Thursday so I'll have to try to get off work again for something that was their fault.

I needed a pole also and was dealt with through KN Circet. Took about 3 months from first visit until line was active.

My NBI FTTH from Eir was installed by KN Circet, not once did I deal with Eir or an Eir engineer visit. All contact was from KN.

I can barely get 2G at the best of times! 😂 Only 2 more years to go before fibre rolls out for me though 🙄

I think with personal medical alarms and house alarms it might be complicated to though, and ESBN use the 2G now for smart meters.

And would the potential switch off of the copper network, it will only add more issues.

House alarms can't (from what I've tried) be wired into the new VOIP phone "line" that is part of the Fibre router box.

Easy fix was a sim card into the system and linked to monitoring company and is decent value at €80 for the year. But so many people going to be hit with issues when copper and 2/3g turns off, as just won't be aware of it.

I recently went to pre order, was originally saying oct/dec this year so well pleased. Anyway within 24 hrs had 2 reps from Eir and Vodafone. Eir seems like a good offer for the 1GB for €45 for 2 years , so I opted for it and have a date for Aug 15th for Survey/Connection.

Now in meantime I'm reading lots of bad reviews about Eir and wondering did I make a mistake in my haste for FTTH. Seems to be a mixed bag of reviews on this forum re: Eir

Has anyone here cancelled their pre order and switched to another provider, and is it a messy process.

Oh, you can do that. An Eir phone plugged into back of the Fibre Router, same house phone number then, just works through VOIP. But this line can't be wired into may systems in a house, alarms etc are issue at present. And the phone calls are free if local/off peak but absolutely no one uses it only older folk still. I've the option with my router and my number is active, but I'm never going to plug a phone into it. Landlines in homes will be dead in a few years.

Our area, Newport Tipp DA, has gone to Network Build Underway.

I wonder if we'll see rollout in 2025?