I understand that, thank you for your help so far MrSaffron !

In reply to a post by martynp1:

I was wondering if anyone reading might have had a similar order who went a head with a full survey and how much that was.

Get your free desktop quote first. Your final price is very likely to be under 75% of this; there is a three-quarters chance it will be under 57%.

So once you have your free quote, you can decide whether it's worth paying for the full survey.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Get your free desktop quote first.
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So once you have your free quote, you can decide whether it's worth paying for the full survey.

He already did, before starting the thread .

In reply to a post by martynp1:

I do get my quote soon so I will let you known.

You seem to think you have a rough idea how long the distance the fibre feed needs to go.
From where are you basing this estimate?

Pricing is not from the fibre at the FTTC cabinet but from the nearest Fibre Aggregation Node. Usually 3 or 4 cabinets are a served by a single Agg Node.
This means your run could be all the way from an Agg Node based near the 3rd or 4th closest FTTC cabinet, considerably further than your local FTTC cabinet.

In rare cases (especially very rural) there is no Agg Node at all serving some FTTC cabs, increasing likely quotes even further.

FTTPoD can be very expensive for the very rural.

Edited by j0hn83 (Mon 19-Nov-18 15:39:01)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

He already did, before starting the thread .

I know. What I'm saying is: wait for the result of the quote first. There is very little point speculating on the final build cost when you don't even know the desktop cost.

In effect I said that to him, and got a very rude reply .

Note also what he says about the "Highest observed VDSL speed", after I had explained what it was. What he finds "stupid" about it he hasn't said.

The thread has no point, and has now also wasted your time too .

Thank you for this helpful information candelrb! My English isn't great so when you say under 75% you mean that the actual survey price if I were to pay for it would be a lot cheaper or more expensive, once again sorry for my bad understanding.

I apologies if it sounded harsh, I was not 100% sure what you meant as I am not great at English however when someone says I have wasted time by asking a question on a forum please don't keep wasting it by replying. Move on to something that would consume your time in a better way.

Nobody here can give you any clue at all what the cost to you will be. There was little point in asking. As you said, the relevant thread contains an awful lot, but contains everything that we know. In summary of it, the answer is that every case is very different.

The only way you will get a useful answer is by getting both the desktop survey result, (I assume that is what you have requested), then even if that is high pay up for the full survey which gives you a price that is frequently much lower, but sometimes higher.

As for your calling the VDSL2 maximum observed speed "stupid", no it isn't. But I accept it clearly shows the Kbps figure, not the Mbps figure stated. That will be because the descriptive text is fixed, and doesn't cater for figures being quoted in Kbps because they are below 1Mbps.

Alright my apologies I was only trying to gain an understanding.