Yeah understandable. I never asked them when it would be done nor would I want to ever do so, but I did ask them whether they were doing the fiber optic cabling and had a brief chat with them. I know from Cerberus that the underground work was done pretty near to the pole in one of the recent progress updates I had. It looks like they've been bolting something in place in the underground cable chamber today as well as some further work on the pole. I also saw a long reel of orange like tubing. Suffice to say I'll be patient, it'll get done when it gets done and I don't expect more than that .

Cerberus came back to me today, they're looking to submit my order in April, for the site survey.
I went ahead with the desktop quote on around 25th January, which is about the timescale I expected.

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Feb-19 09:03:22)

In reply to a post by mrbaba:

Cerberus came back to me today, they're looking to submit my order in April, for the site survey.
I went ahead with the desktop quote on around 25th January, which is about the timescale I expected.

So Cerberus are still queuing orders for full surveys! The halt from September to December looks like it has created a decent backlog of interest in full surveys. The opportunity is there for Openreach to have individuals pay for a chunk of rollout. They just need the guys on the ground.

In reply to a post by Ixel:

Yeah understandable. I never asked them when it would be done nor would I want to ever do so, but I did ask them whether they were doing the fiber optic cabling and had a brief chat with them. I know from Cerberus that the underground work was done pretty near to the pole in one of the recent progress updates I had. It looks like they've been bolting something in place in the underground cable chamber today as well as some further work on the pole. I also saw a long reel of orange like tubing. Suffice to say I'll be patient, it'll get done when it gets done and I don't expect more than that .

It's not that you shouldn't ask them, its just that they will have no idea, each team is silo'd in their own bit. They will have no idea when the overall job might be complete. But finding out which bit they are doing lets you understand where you are overall. If they are jointing fibre then physical works are likely complete on the whole route.

In reply to a post by F00tS0re:

To go:
- Audit
- Commissioning of ONT
- FTTP service go live (solid light)
- Cerberus can place order for FTTP

Audit is apparently done and passed, so just waiting on date for installation/commissioning of ONT. Although jointer has already installed 4-port ONT, so it is literally just a scan of the ONT to load details into the system. I keep looking at the flashing green light whenever I walk past it.

I'm available all day/night for appointment if it helps - all meetings will be cancelled!

So I thought I'd just chime in with an example of what an urban quote might look like... The area is Hanham, Bristol, and I know that I'm connected to the Kingswood exchange.

My desktop quote came back at £3,600 + VAT, with 11 premises passed, and an estimated distance to Fibre aggregation node of 600 - 799m.

Looking at the list of properties passed, they all appear to be connected to the same pole for their telephone lines, which is on the opposite side of the road to me. My line comes in underground from what I can tell...

I'm debating stumping up the £300 to get a survey done, and might knock on a few doors to see if anyone else is interested.
I'm not aware of any businesses being run from the passed properties, which I think rules out use of the Gigabit Voucher scheme... I used to have a business registered at my address, but I dissolved that a couple of years ago.

Food for thought though...

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Feb-19 11:27:59)

Still waiting for cablers to be assigned, been a few weeks now.

In reply to a post by fatmcgav:

I'm debating stumping up the £300 to get a survey done

I noticed its still £250 even though it says £300 on the front webpage.

How do people get updates on progress? Are they emaling you directly or do you have to login to their (Cerberus) netconnect portal for updates?

In reply to a post by bowdon:

In reply to a post by fatmcgav:

I noticed its still £250 even though it says £300 on the front webpage.

£250+VAT = £300

In reply to a post by bowdon:

How do people get updates on progress? Are they emaling you directly or do you have to login to their (Cerberus) netconnect portal for updates?

In my case (and I'd imagine for others), the updates are emailed directly from a contact at Cerberus. Mine are usually on Thursdays, with the odd one on Friday.