So whilst the line back to the exchange is apparently 21Km, I was only charged back to the Aggregation node, which is a lot shorter in distance The cost for install for me was £3500 or so.

The way our connection worked was that the main Fibre line from the Head end exchange runs down the valley and on poles not too far from our house. So what the engineeers did was take a spur from that line at the corner of the road and then run it from there down to the house, which isn't too far really.

I have a feeling that once the changes come in it might well have been cheaper for us, as there was no duct work involved at all, although one of our poles did need replacing and they did need to string fibre across a river, which can't have been the easiest thing to do in the world...

In reply to a post by raesene:

So whilst the line back to the exchange is apparently 21Km, I was only charged back to the Aggregation node, which is a lot shorter in distance The cost for install for me was £3500 or so.

That's right the connect charge is to the aggregation node.

Hi Guys

New to the forum, been reading the Fludione and Cerberus install forums with interest, having ordered a Cerberus FTTPoD service.

I'd be interested to hear if you manage to solve the performance issue with the USG once you have been using for a while Raesene as that is what we currently use too but if it's likely to be a bottleneck I'll defininitely upgrade!

Thanks

Felix

In reply to a post by raesene:

So whilst the line back to the exchange is apparently 21Km

Really? Do you mean 2.1 km?

Nope 21km.

As far as I know my connection runs from my house to the Head end exchange. When they were doing the commissioning the engineer specifically asked the technical contact for the line length as he was curious to know (it was his first FTTP install) and that was the length stated...

Delights of Fibre all the way I guess, it's possible to have much longer line lengths.

In reply to a post by WilliamGrimsley:

In reply to a post by raesene:

So whilst the line back to the exchange is apparently 21Km

Really? Do you mean 2.1 km?

Nothing unusual about a 21km line on fttp, considering that fttp lines will not always terminate at the nearest exchange. In my case my fttp line is ~6km long but like raesene says length is irrelevant on fttp lines wrt speeds.

ISTR upto 40km is permissible

Edited by witchunt (Fri 15-Dec-17 11:58:51)

Sorry, ignore me, thought this was FTTC not FTTP. Makes total sense now.

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Dec-17 12:04:48)

Fair enough. I was told by Cerberus that I am in band H, so the closest aggregation node is at least 1.7km closer than my cabinet. Still, I was given an estimated install cost of just over 10K...! I think I'll wait and see what the new pricing model means for install costs.

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Dec-17 13:49:06)

Fortunate that the aggregation node wasn't too far away.