Hi all

Just started out on this process myself. Quoted £8300 + VAT 5 houses passed. The 5 must include the person ordering, as we are at the end of a cul-de-sac and for some reason the 5 houses at the end are the only ones that connect via underground cable, all the others are from overhead poles. So us 5 houses must all be jointed in the same place where the fibre will be split from.

Distance to aggregation node is quoted at 200-399 metres. Now waiting on the full survey which could be up to 9 weeks according to Cerberus. Not going to be a quick process, just hoping the survey comes in lower to make it feasible.

In reply to a post by E300:

Hi all

Just started out on this process myself. Quoted £8300 + VAT 5 houses passed. The 5 must include the person ordering, as we are at the end of a cul-de-sac and for some reason the 5 houses at the end are the only ones that connect via underground cable, all the others are from overhead poles. So us 5 houses must all be jointed in the same place where the fibre will be split from.

Distance to aggregation node is quoted at 200-399 metres. Now waiting on the full survey which could be up to 9 weeks according to Cerberus. Not going to be a quick process, just hoping the survey comes in lower to make it feasible.

Welcome to the forum E300,

There's a summary of estimates and final quotes reported in this forum in the FTTPoD spreadsheet that you may find interesting.

If you're lucky enough then hopefully you'll get an actual quote that's just under half (if not even less) of the estimated quote.

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Recent update regarding my FTTPoD order...

The initial update I received, as I expected, was a little out of date with recent developments (talking about chasing planning team or such). I passed on what I observed happening this week and Openreach confirmed that the jointers had indeed been working and appear to have completed the build of the order. They are now chasing the jointers for the test results before continuing further with the FTTPoD order. So, that's good news. Another step closer!

Edited by Ixel (Fri 15-Feb-19 15:27:37)

The spreadsheet was interesting. The entries where the desktop quote was around £8000 with the final cost being around £2500 would be good for me!

As an aside, I was googling FTTPoD just to get feel for what sort of thing was involved with the installation and saw someone splicing fibre then coiling up several metres of fibre into a plastic tray. I can understand having some extra spare length is useful for any repairs etc, but why so much excess, it was metres of excess fibre painstakingly coiled around some clips on a tray.

In reply to a post by E300:

I was googling FTTPoD just to get feel for what sort of thing was involved with the installation and saw someone splicing fibre then coiling up several metres of fibre into a plastic tray. I can understand having some extra spare length is useful for any repairs etc, but why so much excess, it was metres of excess fibre painstakingly coiled around some clips on a tray.

One of the best guys to answer that is Zarjaz who does it for a day job, there must be a good reason, I would be interested to know myself.

In reply to a post by fatmcgav:

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

Congratulations, I think that's the lowest desktop quote we've ever seen - although I only add those into the spreadsheet who proceed with the full survey.

Just looked on Openreach ADSL checker for my number.

FTTPoD has always stated as available 330/80Mbps on top line. It now states 1000/220Mbps.

Is that an exchange upgrade or just reflective of the fact that fibre reaches my house (Pickering Exchange 2 MYPIC).

Is there any sign of costs for >330Mbps from any provider using Openreach?

In reply to a post by E300:

The spreadsheet was interesting. The entries where the desktop quote was around £8000 with the final cost being around £2500 would be good for me!

As an aside, I was googling FTTPoD just to get feel for what sort of thing was involved with the installation and saw someone splicing fibre then coiling up several metres of fibre into a plastic tray. I can understand having some extra spare length is useful for any repairs etc, but why so much excess, it was metres of excess fibre painstakingly coiled around some clips on a tray.

These days, where possible, Openreach will use connectorized (pre-made) cabling to connect you to your local fibre DP. They still use splicing but only if the distances are excessive. I think its down to cost saving as they can train Engineers far quicker in connectorized methods than teaching them how to splice fibre.

I had FoD installed in 2017 when splicing was still the norm. There are 3 spare fibres coiled up in the CSP on my external wall and taking a rough guess, each fibre strand looks to be 3-5 metres in length:

https://postimg.cc/Z02Z9CYz

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

These days, where possible, Openreach will use connectorized (pre-made) cabling to connect you to your local fibre DP. They still use splicing but only if the distances are excessive. I think its down to cost saving as they can train Engineers far quicker in connectorized methods than teaching them how to splice fibre.

Agree, my engineer said that some of the engineers keep breaking splicing machines and at £3500 each it is an expensive bit of kit to drop in the mud. Plus he couldn't get a joint spliced on a really cold day and had to give up and come back. A connectorised solution would be plug and play.

For a national roll out of fibre it would be a big cost that can be removed from the equation.

Edited by F00tS0re (Fri 15-Feb-19 17:23:55)

In reply to a post by F00tS0re:

Just looked on Openreach ADSL checker for my number.

FTTPoD has always stated as available 330/80Mbps on top line. It now states 1000/220Mbps.

Is that an exchange upgrade or just reflective of the fact that fibre reaches my house (Pickering Exchange 2 MYPIC).

Is there any sign of costs for >330Mbps from any provider using Openreach?

Yep, its normal for the DSL checker to change to 'WBC FTTP' once your FTTPoD circuit is close to going live. Mine took about 3 weeks from the day the DSL checker changed to WBC FTTP to the go live date, but of course YMMV.

At present availability of > 330 Mbps on Openreach FTTP lines are in very few areas only (despite what the DSL checker says for your line), I think it will be a while before BT Wholesale starts selling the half gig and 1 Gig services nationwide. More info here

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/4609745-fttp-...

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Feb-19 17:27:14)