Recent upgrade to telecom pole but what is it?

I just checked with my neighbors eircode and they can get up to 2000Mb.

How is this possible???

@The Cush

Thanks that's what I thought.

On the NBI site it says

"Your premises is not included in the national rollout

Internet service providers have indicated that they intend to offer speeds of 30mbps or greater in your locality.

If you believe your premises should be included in the national rollout you can find out more in our FAQs at the link below."

And

There is a fiber cabinet less than 100m from my house that services the housing estate across the road. A member on here told me I was connected to one a couple KM away.

Not sure when it was installed but just noticed it a few weeks ago so I assume some time this year.

Do I just contact open eir via email to get them to change the dp I am connected to?

when you say DP i assume you mean the pole i provided the picture of. Im less than 10m from it but there is 2 sets of trees inbetween my place and that pole.

Im in the light blue area on open eir so up to 100Mb.

Here a screenshot providing a bit more context of the pole and where me and my neighbor are.

Correct i just checked an it says "Your premises is not included in the national rollout" for my neighbor on NBI.

Is it really this awkward. I would of thought if a fella came to install the internet he would just go with the closest point which is the DP on the pole 10m from my house.

Having to jump through hopes so I can have decent internet to work from home in this day and age is insane.

is it worth getting on to comreg here are they still as useless as they were in the past for me?

I find it hard to belive that they have one crew mounting boxes and another connecting to fiber. Seems a bit mad to me but have seen stupider things.

In my case the DP seems to have cables running to it so I assume it is already fiber enabled

Is it not possible that i can just pay openeir or another third party to connect me?

Its in there best interest here. Ill be paying them like €65 a month going forward.

Also i dont understand how vodafone can offer up to 2000Mb while all other providers for my neighbor are only offering 1000Mb.

when you say more convenient is it the actual installer its more convenient for or for the ISP itself? If its the installer I can not see why they would not connect to the Fibre DP. Its 10m away.

Thanks that makes more sense.

So its not possible for me to pay for a fibre from the local cabinet/DP or replace existing copper line to cabinet to my house without open-Eir?

Yes i was told i was connected to a cabinet a few KM down the road by someone on here when i gave them my details. This was years ago when all the ISPs told me they could not give me anything better than 10Mb but houses across the road were all able to get 100Mb+. The estate across the road has a fibre cabinet and that cabinet is about 60-70 meters from my place too.

I always assumed my neighbor was connected to that same cabinet as his house is far older than the estate across the road like mine but since now he can get 2000Mb he could be connected to a different cabinet. If you look at the picture of the pole i provide. You will see 2 cables running off it. One of those is to my place and I always assumed the other was to my neigbors as his house is the only one within a 1KM in the direction it is running.

The fiber to these poles is that run over ground or under as this pole has 2 cables running up from the ground which where not there before as far as i can remember but i find it hard to believe they ran cable underground just for this pole that only ever seems to service me and me neighbor. Also I assume they will run cables over head when connecting to a home as my neighbors drive way is in the way of this pole and my house.

Thank you for the response. I always thought that FTTH could mean fiber from a fiber cabinet to the home or fiber from an exchange to the home. Good to know its direct to the exchange.

Im confused myself the more i look at the pole with the DP. So to clarify there was a cable running from pole B to the house till a few years ago but it was knocked down in a storm. As i dont have a land line or broadband so I never contacted Eir or whoever to get it fixed. Now I see from pole A there is a cable going to my house but it broken and i found the end of it(see attached image) in the Y set of trees there after seeing it ran from trees X to Y. I never noticed this cable before as I can only see it at the pole and running from trees Y to X but it seems that cable must of been connected to my house also as it the only house in that direction for about 1km and there are no poles.

What I dont understand is it seems to be a single cable and if thats the case what was the cable from pole B to my house for as that is also a telecom cable. I can only assume that single cable serviced my house and a building in the north west that I believe pole B was connected to but I cannot say for certain thats where the line goes. What i can see is there is no poles anywhere else on the north side of the house so pole B must be going to poles along Z trees line and then to the building in the north west as is the only logical explanation.

Im probably way over thinking this but what makes no sense is that when i enter in the eircode of the north west building it can get speeds a bit faster(up to 34Mbps) than me(up to 28Mbps). This would suggest to me the internet/connection is coming from the Nw side of the cable and and not mine but if thats the case then why would pole B be connected to pole A as it would of been far easier to connect to the neighbor with 2GB speed with a copper telephone line between north west building and me than to connect to my neighbor from pole A as I believe there is poles running along the Z set of trees.

Already have they said they would get back to me within the next month once they discuss internally. Hopefully they will do something as the others have all been a waste of time.

For others monitoring this thread here is what i got back from all the of places i tired to contact.

1. Broadband officer said nothing he could do as i can get up to 30Mb and that i need to contact ISPs and hope they were willing to connect me.
2. Vodafone and Eir both said i am not in green area so nothing they can do but was only talking to sales people. Still waiting on Magnet, Puretelecom and Sky to see what they say.
3. Comreg said the same as Broadband officer
4. Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications said in my area i can get 30mbps to my premise. Therefore, State Aid rules do not allow for your premises to be taken into the National Broadband Plan Intervention area and that commercial providers have said that they will be fiber available at my location before 2026
5. OpenEir said will review and advise us if fibre service is possible at my location within the next month.

Funny thing is if i stick my eircode into any site and say i am a business all of a sudden I am able to get Fiber. Seems they can do what they want.

Just got a great email from opener saying I can get fiber now. I'm green now along with everyone in a 1km radius on openeir map.

Thanks for the help and suggestions everyone.

Seems Vodafone see I can get 2000Mbps but switcher and some other sites still think I cannot get it.

Is there a thread that compares the different provides such as support, actual speeds, equipment and extras like mobile here that I am missing? What happens with the equipment after the 12 month contract am i am to keep it or have to return it. I assume the equipment is different for all providers but does the equipment change depending on the plan for each provider.

Got three mobiles in the house so could switch them too along with broadband.

Looking towards Vodafone 2000Mbs as I have a number of servers at home that need decent upload/download but it's costly at 65 per month plus not sure what the equipment is like. There is a decent Vodafone deal on big switch which is appealing.

Sky doing 500Mb for €30 which is the best I can see but there equipment from what I can find is not great.