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Find the distance from your exchange
on: May 31, 2006, 13:25:30 PM

A Cool page I just found, if any of you where wondering exactly how far you are from your local exchange:

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/distance.php

A few other cool tools on there too.
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Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #1 on: May 31, 2006, 13:31:31 PM
You can also use the fast test system @ 17070 ;)

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Reply #2 on: May 31, 2006, 13:49:41 PM
Quote from: sexytw

A Cool page I just found, if any of you where wondering exactly how far you are from your local exchange:

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/distance.php

A few other cool tools on there too.


crow flies dont count though

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Reply #3 on: May 31, 2006, 13:56:18 PM
Well aparantly I live in a telephone exchange

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Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #4 on: May 31, 2006, 14:24:49 PM
Neat. 1.87km. :)

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Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #5 on: May 31, 2006, 14:37:05 PM
Says 420 metres for me but add a few for the wiring.

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Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #6 on: May 31, 2006, 14:51:50 PM
700m here

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Reply #7 on: May 31, 2006, 15:13:14 PM
450 meters here. nice
1.76 k for at home :o

Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #8 on: May 31, 2006, 16:56:44 PM
http://www.samknows.com already does it and has done for years :P

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Reply #9 on: May 31, 2006, 17:03:27 PM
Both my flat here and parents home are a little over 2km as the crow flys...yet I couldnt get DSL at my parents because I was outside of the 3km range (back in the day).


Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #10 on: May 31, 2006, 17:03:32 PM
It has a nice SnR attenuation calc mind.

According to that thing I can get 6.8mbit here.

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Reply #11 on: May 31, 2006, 17:03:54 PM
You are on the Sutton Cheam exchange.

You are around 1.09 kilometers from your exchange (as the crow flies).
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Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #12 on: May 31, 2006, 17:04:06 PM
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No information to display map. Is your postcode correct?


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Reply #13 on: May 31, 2006, 22:14:38 PM
You are around 170 meters from your exchange (as the crow flies).

do I win ?

Im sure its less that 170m anyway... I park my car outside it half the time !

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Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Reply #14 on: June 01, 2006, 14:13:42 PM
It tells me Im 330m from my exchange but the locaton of the exchange listed on the map is wrong. Im actually just about 100yds away.


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