https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2012/11/29/per-pa... goes into the number of bytes that are used for the overheads of getting your IP traffic across the VDSL2 link

So it's been a couple of years and my FTTC connection is great, but I'm starting to think about FTTP.

I can see from samknows that the Littlehampton exchange is enabled for FTTP 'in some areas' however the BT availability checker says it's not available at my phone number/postcode.

Is there any more info on FTTP availability?

Most exchanges have a very small amount of FTTP. TBB's own broadband map has an option for Openreach Native FTTP so you can get an idea of where it is available. It looks like Littlehampton just has some properties in the north west corner at "Kingley Gate" - I'm guessing it is a new development?

That broadband map is very nice, thanks for the link.

Yes, Kingley Gate is new, and have FTTP. I'm slightly to the east of that estate.

I've applied for a quote from Cerberus Networks for FTTPoD - I expect it will be out of budget!

For reference I received a quote fairly quickly from Cerberus - £7,800+VAT, passing 5 other premises - distance 600 - 799m from aggregation node.

That was the free desktop quote? If you place an order for £250+VAT you may find that the final price is lower.

Thanks, that's very interesting. I run a business from my address so think I'd be eligible for the £2500 grant. If I could be sure the final quote would be cheaper I'd be very tempted, but at the moment I'm managing OK with FTTC and I don't think it's worth the £250 survey/gamble on price.

I'll keep an eye on things and hopefully the install costs come down, or grants go up, or someone nearby gets FTTPoD

In reply to a post by wheeler:

Tor someone nearby gets FTTPoD

Don't hold your breath for that - last I heard, they were doing 40 per month (up from 20) across the whole UK.

I'm not surprised, at these prices!

It's coming! The Openreach guys are in my street as we speak pulling fibre into the pits.

I spoke to them and they said there is a big rollout happening and my street is where they are starting. He's not sure on the plans, but he said it's town wide, and as you are (from memory) in the estate next to ours, it would be reasonable to assume you'll not be far behind.

I'm really happy. I spent the first year having FTTC drop as many as 100 times a day.
They sent engineer after engineer out and each time they said the lines better than expected, and they run tests and see nothing. They would leave and 20 mins later it would start again.

The eventually decided the problem was the power line ethernet adaptors that I dont use (as in they were in the box inside a cupboard but it had been noted as part of the original fault that I had removed them and it hadn't fixed the issue) and closed the investigation. My ISP managed to get it useable by fiddling and getting it to stay synced at 35Mb (my estimate as 66-55 on a clean line). It's not perfect, I still see 4-5 drops a day but I can live with that. Having a line that's going to stay synced and with a good stable latency will be epic - my only conerns is that where BTOR put the fibre infrastructure in the neighbouring new-build estate, customers were tied to BT Internet for the first 3 years. I really dont want to switch ISP if I dont have to.

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