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Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL?

From David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.dcom.xdsl
Subject Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL?
Date 2012-07-12 03:00 +0000
Organization NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex
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Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> writes:


>You can determine the prem location to CO distance, but that isn't
>going to do you much good. Most DSL is served off of remote DSLAMs
>out in the field. These could service areas as small as 4 square
>blocks, or as large as 4-8 square miles. 

"Most"?
I welcome a citation of same. Deployment of SLC's{really DLC},
esp. those with DSLAMs, varies widely between LEC's and even
areas of a LEC. What is true here is not there.

To address the original question...  You can tell exactly,
provided you are the telco dude with a TDR, or similar test
gear......




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How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-07-10 06:20 -0700
  Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2012-07-10 17:25 +0000
    Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-07-10 15:57 -0500
      Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2012-07-10 21:31 +0000
        Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-07-10 22:12 -0700
    Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2012-07-12 03:00 +0000
      Re: How to determine exactly how far/long the phone line is between home/locations and COs are for DSL? Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2012-07-12 04:39 +0000

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