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Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: addictweb 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.
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: Mark on May 31, 2006, 13:31:31 PM
You can also use the fast test system @ 17070 ;)
Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: brummie on May 31, 2006, 13:49:41 PM
Quote from: sexytwA 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
Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: DeltaZero on May 31, 2006, 13:56:18 PM
Well aparantly I live in a telephone exchange
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: skidzilla on May 31, 2006, 14:24:49 PM
Neat. 1.87km. :)
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: Serious on May 31, 2006, 14:37:05 PM
Says 420 metres for me but add a few for the wiring.
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: Paulus on May 31, 2006, 14:51:50 PM
700m here
Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: redneck on May 31, 2006, 15:13:14 PM
450 meters here. nice
1.76 k for at home :o
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on May 31, 2006, 16:56:44 PM
http://www.samknows.com already does it and has done for years :P
Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: Mardoni 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).

Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: M3ta7h3ad 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.
Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: Leon 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).
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: funkychicken9000 on May 31, 2006, 17:04:06 PM
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No information to display map. Is your postcode correct?

Exceptional.
Title: Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: knighty 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 !
Title: Re:Find the distance from your exchange
Post by: Blade 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.


Dave.