Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!wb8foz From: David Lesher 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4ffc6582$0$74856$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1342062000 13122 166.84.1.5 (12 Jul 2012 03:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:00:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.dcom.xdsl:65 Doug McIntyre 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...... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433