Exchange Distance

[Blue]

Right, I live about a couple of metres away from a main road, just in a little cul-de-sac sort of thing, and I apparently live 3058 metres away from my exchange (checked using http://www.samknows.com/broadband/mapping/mapping.php)

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-786047414164814103.png

but, if I lived on the main road, my exchange would be only a third of the distance away from where I live. Surely it would make sense to make the connection go to the closest one :S

[newWORLDorder]

The exchange round ours (this little green box) is right outside ours.

[kurtis5561]

The exchange round ours (this little green box) is right outside ours.
That isn't the exchange, thats a BT routing box or a C&W one.

The exchange is a big massive building, Plus it depends on what route the routing box sends your traffic.

[:job2]

Are you with BT? If your not it might be because your ISP have there own server in the one your connected too, but if they want to connect you to the closer one they would have to do it through BT reseller as they don't have a server.

That is just a guess but it seems logical

[Blue]

Hmm, no, they have provide LLU services through both exchanges.

[lolwut]

The companies, as a rule, tend to lay cables down the roads with the most roads coming off it.

So if you live in a cul-de-sac at the end of the "line", your connection will be slowest because it's branching off down all the other roads before it gets to you and the connections on that specific road will all be fast because they carry the signals for all the off-roads.

I think what's happened here is that the cable has been laid going along Clay Lane and you're, unfortunatley at the "end of the line" despire having a main road in the other direction.

I agree that it would have made more sense for the cable to go the other way, but it was probably easier/cheaper to lay it the way they did.

Pardon me if I've got the wrong idea, it doesn't seem obvious exactly what the problem is. :S

[N!ck]

Do you currently have an internet connection that's using the phone line in question? If so and you have a router can you go into the router's configuration page, look something like broadband line in the status pages and tell us your Line Attenuation.

[Blue]

There is nothing like that at all on my o2 router, this is all I have.

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-32058284695003759.png


http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-197878328470937263.png

[Flisker]

There is nothing like that at all on my o2 router, this is all I have.

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-32058284695003759.png


http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-197878328470937263.png
I get 448 Upload and 8,128 Download on my o2 router xD

[Blue]

I might be able to get that much if I was connected to the other exchange :P

[Chippiewill]

Thanks for the site, it helped me understand some stuff about broadband. +rep.

Also I am 670m away from mine which explains why I have always had such great speeds. Now to go to that nearby exchange and make them make it faster!

[Flisker]

166m away from exchange (H)

[:job2]

Im only 1.4 miles from my exchange but because I live in a place nobody cares about I can only get a maximum on 8MB broadband and the exchange wont be upgrades uptill 2011 :P