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My parents and brother have fibrus in as part of the rural connectivity scheme.
They ran the fibre lines on the telegraph poles and then put in 2 new poles to bring it across a field. There was no issue with the civils to be fair, they were very accommodating.
Performance is good.
Service is good.
Router within the house is fine. Though I got a meshing kit for my brother as he wanted to get internet out to his garage. That's working well too.
There has been a couple of outages though which left my elderly parents without internet or phone (they got a VOIP phone as part of their contract). I'd have preferred they'd kept the phone on copper myself as they are elderly and there is little to no mobile signal where they live. So no internet, no phone.

Interested in this Fibrus thing..
They've the poles up on my road and are due to run the fibre in the Spring.
currently my BT phone line comes from a pole across the road and I'd put the BT line across the road (along with my electricity, I know, not ideal, but one road crossing was all I was prepared to pay for), I've it ducted all the way into my house and under the stairs where I've my switch and Cat5e all running back to but I genuinely don't think they could use the existing BT line to pull the fibre through.

What other options would I have?

Why could they not use the existing BT duct to pull the fibre cable in?
There's plenty of space in the standard grey 50mm duct for the copper phone cable and fibre cable I would have thought
Have you left a rope in the duct?

Tyrone TV stream quality seems to be a lot poorer today compared to earlier games in the championship

If Strabane are the 2nd best team in that division, it is worse than I thought

Donaghmore IIIs gave Stewartstown a closer game

Stewartstown putting Strabane to the sword.

Stewartstown for the All Ireland Junior? Won't be far away this time

Has anyone any experience of Fibrus yet? They are due to upgrade my area shortly. I'm joining a Hyperfast NI update event via teams this evening, anything I should look out for? Currently I have approx 17mbps download speed and 1mbps upload.

I've signed up, not installed yet - £24.99 for 300MB is better than I'm currently paying for 17MB
Have a site visit from them on Sunday morning

On thre topic of Wi-Fi boosters - I see they can provide one for £5per month! I don't know why you'd pay that rather than just buy one

Anyone move to Fibrus lately? Is their pricing still similar to the above?

Have an account with Ulster Bank ROI which is going to close and I need to switch to another bank
Anyone familiar with EBS?
Was thinking of switching to their Money Manager account which doesn't have a monthly or quarterly maintenance fee and no minimum deposit amount

Has anyone any experience of Fibrus yet? They are due to upgrade my area shortly. I'm joining a Hyperfast NI update event via teams this evening, anything I should look out for? Currently I have approx 17mbps download speed and 1mbps upload.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/northern-ireland-government-dfe-dup-conservative-party-b2016471.html

Anyone get Fibrus yet, What's it like?
Bit of criticism here over their pricing structure

Anybody know how long it takes to get registered and approved for the NI COVID app?
Can you get approved over the weekend?
I'm assuming you need it for Spain?

Shouldn't take long at all few hours I think.

Thankyou

Anybody know how long it takes to get registered and approved for the NI COVID app?
Can you get approved over the weekend?
I'm assuming you need it for Spain?

Anyone able to put up a link to an archive of the all County league tables going back over the years?

how much is concrete a metre these days?

35N is £70m3 (+vat if you are paying it)

Kitchen worktops ... any decent shout outs to companies that provide them?

Maghera Granite 👍

McShane up top and McKenna at half back line.

Who you dropping? Sludden?

Either of the midfielders. Leave McKenna in the middle. He was there anyway for couple of throw ins

Drumquin v Brocagh in the Junior Championship with winners facing Eskra in q/f 🤔

What's the initial costs and ongoing costs of a mobile home in places such as Bundoran/Downings etc? Do you have to buy the caravan and change every so often?