Cerberus is now offering SoGfast Pro (330/50) for 1 month contract with new copper line installation (1 month contract) for £59.90 inc vat a month with installation fee £134.64 inc vat with Draytek Vigor 166 G.fast modem £142.80 inc vat with 1 free static ip address. So, you can cancel it at anytime with 30 days notice with cease fee of £43.20 inc vat when FTTP become available! SoGfast Office (160/30) is also available for the same 1 month contract with monthly fee of £52.42 inc vat but you can't have static ip address (only on SoGfast Pro)

Edited by adslmax (Tue 01-Apr-25 22:18:10)

Cerberus will be alright. Not a fly by night operator. Not the cheapest. But you know they will stand behind the service of what they sell. Or at least they did 😂

Having a look for you File Sanctuary offer SOGFast 160/30 @ £49 per month, if you choose a FRITZ!Box 7530AX it's a £90 set up fee, own router suggest £0 setup fee. 18 month contract.

Unchained ISP 160/30 £60/m with a £25 set up fee, 12 Month Contract

Would be worth finding out the cancellation charges

In reply to a post by CJT:

Having a look for you File Sanctuary offer SOGFast 160/30 @ £49 per month, if you choose a FRITZ!Box 7530AX it's a £90 set up fee, own router suggest £0 setup fee. 18 month contract.

Unchained ISP 160/30 £60/m with a £25 set up fee, 12 Month Contract

Would be worth finding out the cancellation charges

He probably doesn't want 18 months contract with File Sanctuary or 12 months contract with UnchainedISP. What if his FTTP become available within next 6 months?

In reply to a post by CJT:

Having a look for you File Sanctuary offer SOGFast 160/30 @ £49 per month, if you choose a FRITZ!Box 7530AX it's a £90 set up fee, own router suggest £0 setup fee. 18 month contract.

Unchained ISP 160/30 £60/m with a £25 set up fee, 12 Month Contract

Would be worth finding out the cancellation charges

Beware of FRITZ!Box 7530AX isn't support G.fast (only ADSL or VDSL)




DSL router with firewall/NAT, DHCP server, DynDNS client, UPnP AV
VDSL or ADSL line
Supports VDSL connections up to 300 Mbit/s with supervectoring (35b)
Supports VDSL lines with 100 Mbit/s with vectoring (full vectoring)
Supports VDSL Long Reach

Use of existing Internet connections via LAN
Router operation with a cable modem, fiber optic connection or 3G data dongle (LTE/UMTS/HSPA)
Supports IPv6
Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall with port sharing
Secure remote access, LAN-to-LAN linkup and dial-in to the company network with VPN (WireGuard and IPSec)

Edited by adslmax (Wed 02-Apr-25 12:14:10)

Hi adslmax,

You're right, the FRITZ!Box 7530 AX does not directly support G.fast, however we deploy this as a "two box" solution, in conjunction with an Openreach MT992.

While Openreach don't make the MT992 directly available to ISPs anymore, there are plenty on eBay for around the £20-£30 mark, and we advise our SOGFast customers to pick one up from there. Doing an eBay search with the terms "openreach mt992" seems to return the best results.

Getting these from eBay works out to be much cheaper for customers as Openreach were charging ISPs close to £70 + VAT for these towards the end!

The MT992 essentially acts as a zero-configuration media converter of sorts, and you can plug in any PPPoE-capable router with an Ethernet WAN port (such as our FRITZ!Box 7530 AX or FRITZ!Box 7690) into the MT992, and you set the username/password on the router.

Edited by FileSanctuary (Wed 02-Apr-25 15:57:04)

I agree but this person can get G.fast Router (excellent router) as it support G.fast for under £15!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/396162270538

I believe that Zyxel model is unfortunately now out of support and no longer receives firmware updates (so no security patches).

It does support G.fast as a "one box" solution though, but I don't think there are many G.fast-capable router models that still get security updates, which is why most new installs are done the "two box" way.

When I got the Openreach G.fast Modem I did asked the engineer last year was the modem itself updated to latest security patches because the modem was locked down. The engineer say he has no idea how to unlock it and unable to check the latest firmware on the modem. I do own Zyxel XMG3927-B50A G.fast Router with last security updated from Zyxel support team 5.17(ABMT.6)C0 firmware https://webservice.zyxel.com/end-of-life

Edited by adslmax (Wed 02-Apr-25 17:18:13)