Yes it's compulsory for anyone who takes FTTPod from FluidOne.
It's a business product, not unusual they make you use enterprise equipment.
I wouldn't put the draytek vigor 2860 in that category.

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There is now a special section on the Cerberus website with FTTPoD pricing. It says £165 per month.

In reply to a post by Bill100:

There is now a special section on the Cerberus website with FTTPoD pricing. It says £165 per month.

Indeed there is:

https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/connectivity-broa...

Whilst the monthly rental of £165 per month (+ one-off installation charges) appears quite attractive just be aware that they have a FUP/AUP of 750GB per month (AFAIK). On a FTTP 330/30 connection its easy to burn data quickly without realising it, i can easily get through 500GB a week on my 330 Mbps connection. However If you're totally confident that your monthly usage will be well within that then by all means go for it.

750GB would be extremely disappointing to say the least...

ditto

750GB is rather daft on FTTPoD to be honest. Also I don't believe £165 a month because BTOR would reject it. All FTTPoD cost more than £300 a month exc VAT.

Edited by adslmax (Mon 04-Sep-17 00:03:17)

That's nonsense. The OpenReach price is quite a bit less than £165.
OpenReach also can't reject an order because an ISP chooses to sell it at a loss, that's their choice.

I think the 165 price is reasonable, and probably other operators could make it a viable offering at that level.

However I had a brief look at the AUP and I couldn't find any mention of 750GB specifically.

But in recent weeks they have changed their product specs a lot, it's almost as if they are making it up as they go along. They used to mention 12mbps as a guaranteed throughput. That has disappeared but nothing has replaced it.

Has anyone taken up this or other services with them?

i didn't. with the news on Sunday about FTTP in certain regions (I'm in the area)..I'm gonna wait. Details are awaited.