In reply to a post by Ixel:

Woohoo, all done! Engineer was chatty and busy. He was late but I didn't mind that, Openreach were made aware that I was happy with an afternoon slot as long as someone arrived today.

Poor guy has a two hour trip home, presumably the last job of the day too as he didn't finish till about 4:30pm. Took nearly four hours. He had an issue at the end of the installation (red light) but it turned out a bit of rain managed to get on the end of the optic cable at the pole and was rectified easily!



One thing that does astound me however is that Cerberus, or at least on my connection, isn't providing any IPv6 range. Is this something I have to request or is it not supported yet?

Awesome. Hope it is going well.

Had mine for a few weeks now and loving it. Guest usage jumped from previous average of 500GB/month to 2.4TB/month. So clearly the guests loving it as well.
SkyQ gives ready to watch on UHD in circa 2seconds.

Nice, yeah it's going well here too. I'm enjoying the fast speed. Hope Cerberus (assuming that's the ISP you're with) don't mind that kind of usage per month . They also allocated me a /56 so I'm actually IPv6 compliant, instead of the /64 I was originally allocated.

Edited by Ixel (Sun 14-Apr-19 13:10:41)

In reply to a post by Ixel:

Nice, yeah it's going well here too. I'm enjoying the fast speed. Hope Cerberus (assuming that's the ISP you're with) don't mind that kind of usage per month . They also allocated me a /56 so I'm actually IPv6 compliant, instead of the /64 I was originally allocated.

Around 6 months ago someone on Cerberus was asked to reduce their monthly usage to < 1 TB on the 330/50 FTTP service. He was downloading 3.8 TBs per month, on average.

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4604630-re...

Oof, less than 1TB, that to me feels a little on the strict side. I tend to use a bit over 1TB a month, hopefully that won't be an issue.

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

In reply to a post by Ixel:

Nice, yeah it's going well here too. I'm enjoying the fast speed. Hope Cerberus (assuming that's the ISP you're with) don't mind that kind of usage per month . They also allocated me a /56 so I'm actually IPv6 compliant, instead of the /64 I was originally allocated.

Around 6 months ago someone on Cerberus was asked to reduce their monthly usage to < 1 TB on the 330/50 FTTP service. He was downloading 3.8 TBs per month, on average.

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4604630-re...

I was surprised at how high it seemed to be. Does seem to be what the USG-Pro-4 is reporting, as our usage. I did have good discussion with Cerberus prior to starting and they said there was no limit, just a fair play clause, can't remember the exact wording but it didn't have a strict limit.

With Netflix, streaming music etc becoming more and more common then payload is just going to increase. Looking at the guest network device names this weekend I see 2X-BoxOnes, 2 Amazon Echo devices, and a Sonos device. IT is no longer just to stay in touch, streaming whilst on holiday now seems the norm.

Submitted request for desktop survey to Cerberus on 4/4, received response on 25/4

We have now received the estimate of the charges from BT. These are detailed below.

Estimated Build Cost: £14,300.00 ex VAT

The build charge includes the estimate for the work and materials required to deliver the service. It also includes the connection charge.

Number of premises passed for FTTP: 4

Please note that this is an estimated price based on network records. Openreach are not always able to provide an estimate in this way and a full survey may be required. Installation charges are only confirmed by a full survey once you place an order for the service.

Openreach estimate that the distance to the fibre aggregation node serving your premises is 400 - 599m. The distance to the aggregation node will have an effect on the installation price.

In reply to a post by jecop:

Submitted request for desktop survey to Cerberus on 4/4, received response on 25/4

We have now received the estimate of the charges from BT. These are detailed below.

Estimated Build Cost: £14,300.00 ex VAT

The build charge includes the estimate for the work and materials required to deliver the service. It also includes the connection charge.

Number of premises passed for FTTP: 4

Please note that this is an estimated price based on network records. Openreach are not always able to provide an estimate in this way and a full survey may be required. Installation charges are only confirmed by a full survey once you place an order for the service.

Openreach estimate that the distance to the fibre aggregation node serving your premises is 400 - 599m. The distance to the aggregation node will have an effect on the installation price.

I know it depends so much on the facts on the grounds but 14k for potentially as little as 400m is unluckly.

But it's only an estimate.

In reply to a post by F00tS0re:

With Netflix, streaming music etc becoming more and more common then payload is just going to increase. Looking at the guest network device names this weekend I see 2X-BoxOnes, 2 Amazon Echo devices, and a Sonos device. IT is no longer just to stay in touch, streaming whilst on holiday now seems the norm.

That's because for many users now it's how they consume TV. So imagine you take your little ones on holiday, and they want to watch their favourite TV show while you get ready to go out for the day, whether it's Peppa Pig or Blaze, or PJ Masks etc. and you use a streaming service. You don't have DVD's to take with you because it's all streaming...

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In reply to a post by F00tS0re:

With Netflix, streaming music etc becoming more and more common then payload is just going to increase. Looking at the guest network device names this weekend I see 2X-BoxOnes, 2 Amazon Echo devices, and a Sonos device. IT is no longer just to stay in touch, streaming whilst on holiday now seems the norm.

That's because for many users now it's how they consume TV. So imagine you take your little ones on holiday, and they want to watch their favourite TV show while you get ready to go out for the day, whether it's Peppa Pig or Blaze, or PJ Masks etc. and you use a streaming service. You don't have DVD's to take with you because it's all streaming...

Agreed, but I wouldn't have said "because for many users now it's how they consume TV." a year ago. We would get a games console now and again and an Echo would be a rare surprise on the network. However the frequency of these things appearing has somewhat shot up. We are a rural destination, and only have FTTPoD because we were in a position to drop £10k on it, few other small holiday complexes have it, so I suppose I better shout about it and get the benefit.

But I now flick past the movies on Sky, see there is nothing I want about to start and look at downloads, it is ready to watch immediately in UHD. Previously downloading took 16-hours so you had to plan tomorrows download. Heck if you miss the first three minutes or just want UHD, then download away. That's 13GB done on one movie because you got in the chair 3-minutes late.