What makes you think they'd be connected to the one furthest away?

From how I read it for FoD, the charges are based upon a radius from your home to the nearest node.

Possibly the same reason property's aren't allways connected the nearest cab.
Perhaps ask for more info rather than come to your own dubious conclusions

That was my original understandig when looking into it for them. However, the BT price lis quotes:

2) The FTTP on Demand Distance Based Charge is the variable connection charge which will apply to all FTTP on Demand orders in addition to the fixed connection charge. Openreach will calculate the relevant distance band for an Order using the radial distance from the relevant NGA aggregation node, calculated using the details recorded by Openreach.

Relevant being the key word - not nearest.

In their case the nearest node has a hill in the way and for BT to provide service from that node would require about 5km of ducting or poles as there is a total absence of them on that route.

Fair enough

If only the pesky monthly charge was lowered I'd be tempted to pay a few grand installation fee!

Presumably it is down to cable routes. If the ducting doesn't go to the "nearest" node but to a different node then it could be more economical to install to a more distant node than to install ducts/poles for a new route.

The node that would be used is fairly close to the cabinet in use and has poles/ducts all the way. To use existing ducts to get to the "nearest" would result in around 9km and pass the suggested/relevant node on the way. New poles/ducts would never be implemented - massive cost to BT for no return.

However, there is pressure to get BT to install an AIO cabinet close to the cluster of houses - all of whom only get 1Mbps ADSL and 3Mbps VDSL.

The Openreach price list also states

96% of premises are expected to be within 2km of the nearest NGA Aggregation Node, and these will be covered by distance bands A to G.

So much for your tale of woe.

Does that say connected to? No.

The charges will be based on the RELEVANT node NOT the nearest.

In reply to a post by lee111s:

Fair enough

If only the pesky monthly charge was lowered I'd be tempted to pay a few grand installation fee!

I guess ISPs could price monthly FoD costs considerably lower (say £80 pm) but then install costs would rocket to £10k minimum. Take-up on those t&c's would probably be even lower, so i think its better paying a 4 figure sum upfront and the remainder over 36 months. I agree though, FoD isn't cheap in its current guise whichever way you look at it.

Sounds like you jumped to a wrong conclusion by not reading the price list fully.