I should clarify. The primary driver behind the 10G upgrade is the need for resilient connectivity at >1G.
In the absence of 2 ONTs and total WAN capacity of over a gigabit it's basically a pointless waste of money.
I am not going to buy it for the sake of it or to play with it. A network this basic won't teach me anything or be any fun to set up.
I'll hook up a 4G dongle as a backup on an active:passive basis.
Hopefully at some point another operator will rock up using PIA or their own kit.
My concerns about being stuck in an Openreach only area have proven true before I even moved in. That likely single figures pounds saved provisioning the bare minimum CBT ports is so worth it.
Just to see off a possible criticism nothing to do with optical budgets. Pretty close to the exchange, 4 PONs required on standard planning rules so should be loads of ports free or they're running PONs with zero spares and a fibre break will result in far more expense than necessary.
Purely some planning rules written by someone with a rod up their hindmost per Openreach / BT / Post Office Telephones standard. Laughable that overprovisioning routinely done for copper but not optical.
Plus ca change, plus la meme chose.