Would be nice to have native FTTP 1000/220 am I sound bit too greedy?

Current Openreach pricing:

Up to 1000Mbit/s/220Mbit/s Note 1 20/01/2017 1158.00 1,692.00

Might not go ahead with Cerberus FTTP Unlimited due to FTTP AUP Policy stated:

6. What about excessive network usage?
6.1. Where services are supplied with an unlimited monthly usage policy, and it is determined that any customers Internet activities are so excessive that other customers are detrimentally affected, Cerberus may give the customer generating the excessive traffic a written warning (by email or otherwise). In extreme circumstances, should the levels of activity not immediately decrease after the warning, Cerberus may terminate that customer�s services.
6.2. Services subject to a monthly usage allowance will be billed at the rate of £1 per GB of additional data use over and above the allowance for that month.

Going to ask them tomorrow what is the maximum download & upload usage per month on FTTP.

Edited by adslmax (Mon 07-Aug-17 22:20:11)

How much data do you use at the moment?

approx 1500GB to 2500GB a month (because of sky+ HD box downloading HD movies, tv series) Netflix HD, other downloading too.

Edited by adslmax (Mon 07-Aug-17 22:54:02)

(Disclaimer: I'm not Cerberus but just a casual bystander)

If the guaranteed rate is 12Mbit/s, then they can expect you to use this 24/7 and I can't see how it would be unreasonable to others to do so. Using a solid 12Mbit/s would give just under 4TB usage in an average 30.4 day month.

So based on your usage I don't think that would breach the AUP. But as you say - best to check with them and state your current usage and ask if that would be acceptable.

If they say it is, but then later claim it's in breach (seemingly unlikely) then you could simply refer them back to their admissal that it's acceptable.

The £1 per gb is only for limited packages with a fixed monthly quota.
There is no maximum download/upload usage per month, it's an unlimited service. They are just pointing out of you abuse the hell out of it they reserve the right to cancel your contract. Wouldn't that be a great thing to happen? Then you can order native FTTP from another ISP for a cheaper price.
Considering they would remain stuck in a contract with BT it would be business suicide to release you from your contract free.
Your extremely unlikely to fall foul of their AUP.
There will be very few (if any) sharing the local fibre with you as there isn't much native FTTP around you.

Sounds like you're making excuses to not order. Sounds like a bargain to me, especially at those monthly rental prices.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

TBB BQM is pretty good but I thought FTTP should be less than 5ms ping?

Depends where in the country you are.
In central Scotland I could never get under 10ms. In Inverness/highlands there isn't a hope in hell of getting 5ms.

Cerberus have been around since 2006 so they are fairly well established. They were one of the vendors the company I work for was considering for network services when they moved offices 3 years ago.

Just phoned up Cerberus networks about FTTP with this policy AUP and told them of my average data usage and they say the maximum usage allowance on FTTC, FTTP are no more than 750GB in a single month. Anything over 750GB will get a warning letter. That's now has put me off. I did asked them to removed Unlimited as because it was misleading word 'Unlimited' mean UNILIMITED but they point me out Unlimited subject to AUP policy. as they haven't done anything wrong of AUP policy there. So, it a no no for me for Cerberus FTTP. I think they are good offer FTTP at £87.50 per month exc VAT but with AUP policy about usage allowance warning letter is no good for me.

Going to try quote again for FluidOne.

Edited by adslmax (Tue 08-Aug-17 09:23:54)

+1