In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

I'm guessing you live in/near London? Unless I can change the laws of Physics, I'm never going to get 4ms on FTTP living in North Scotland . Contrary to popular opinion, being on FTTP doesn't always give you single digit ping times - ping times largely depend on your geographical location. Btw I was getting ~ 22ms on FTTC.


Yeah I am in London. You should move to London to improve your pings.

I thought I'd post my Cerberus FTTPod order as it's under the new pricing, I got quotes from both the old pricing version and new desktop survey pricing (with a site survey in process).

Under the old pricing structure I was quoted under the C band which was £2,750.

New pricing structure I was quoted on the desktop survey was £5,600, quite often the initial high estimates from the desktop survey are a result of not having an up to date topography of the network layout.

I've had the first initial site survey yesterday which was all good up until the house where the ducting is a private one and not on their system, they need to come back and do a rod test to see if it does come out at the street duct.

The aggregation node is around 650m away.

As we run a business from home we're looking at hopefully applying for the gigabit voucher scheme to help cover some of the costs.

Would you like to start a new thread for FTTPoD desktop quotes vs final prices? This one's getting very long, and the other one this size got locked recently.

I've just had my Survey done today. The Agg node is closer than I thought, approx 200m. There is underground ducting all the way to a Telegraph pole outside the property, the OR Tech did not check for blocked ducts, he said that makes no difference to the price and OR would have to pay to unblock any. He said there would be a new "Fibre cabinet" which would be in one of the existing underground chambers and the job should be straightforward.

Just got to wait for the final quote now but sounds like it should be around the guesstimate of £3900. Hopefully I will be setup before too long

In reply to a post by lincsat:

I've just had my Survey done today. The Agg node is closer than I thought, approx 200m. There is underground ducting all the way to a Telegraph pole outside the property, the OR Tech did not check for blocked ducts, he said that makes no difference to the price and OR would have to pay to unblock any. He said there would be a new "Fibre cabinet" which would be in one of the existing underground chambers and the job should be straightforward.

Just got to wait for the final quote now but sounds like it should be around the guesstimate of £3900. Hopefully I will be setup before too long

That's good to hear.

I got a quote - was told if I had FTTP I would deny 2 premises nearby to get it therefore I would have to pay OR for that privilege.

No one around here could afford it and they could buy a lot of their drugs for that money.

Anyway - £36,000+VAT - so my only hope of getting 1Gbps down would be a few cable lines or something from VM business - luckily they say there is no longer a wayleave problem so I can have as many as I want - the problem there being I am sure 3-4 lines would mess themselves up!

Anyway - FTTP is not for me, not here and not now :/

Will be very interested to hear what your final quote is then, as I know from recent installs to other parts of my road that 1x 300m 4-port CBT will get from the footway chamber outside my door containing my copper DP, to the local splitter node. All underground ducted, no poles at all in my case.

I would hope yours is significantly less than £3,900....

In reply to a post by lincsat:

I've just had my Survey done today. The Agg node is closer than I thought, approx 200m. There is underground ducting all the way to a Telegraph pole outside the property, the OR Tech did not check for blocked ducts, he said that makes no difference to the price and OR would have to pay to unblock any. He said there would be a new "Fibre cabinet" which would be in one of the existing underground chambers and the job should be straightforward.

Just got to wait for the final quote now but sounds like it should be around the guesstimate of £3900. Hopefully I will be setup before too long

Just got my final quote - £2455.15. Let me think about it for a while, YES

Thought I'd share my update here too! We ordered on 3 October 2018 and have had confirmation today that the works are all done and we are just waiting for a commissioning date to get the service live.

Much to my surprise, based on the other posters that appear to be in urban areas, here in the sticks in Devon our checker is showing WBC FTTP 1000/220 as available which will be a nice uplift in 3 years time when our contract ends.

We don't even have the physical cable installed from the pole yet which must mean the checker changes when the infrastructure is in place.

My hope is with G.fast now around me Virgin will up their game to win then back - when they do we all win.

Looks like 1Gbps via wireless is on the cards for us at a new location. I still can't believe out old house was so expensive - i'm glad we've sold it and moved on now!

For what it's worth, while Cerberus has commented elsewhere in the thread stating there's no 750GB limit (strictly speaking I suspect that is true), I've had a phone call from them today telling me that my usage (not sure if they mean total or download only) needs to go sub-1TB by next month or they will be kicking me off the service. My average usage for the last 11 months has been 3.8TB down, 0.5TB up. I'm on the 330/50 FTTP (not FTTPoD) service.

My 12 month contract literally ended just a week ago, suspect that timing is not a coincidence.

Edited by deleted (Wed 31-Oct-18 16:26:23)