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

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Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote:
> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> writes:
> >Is there a way to determine how far/long the phone line is between 
> >homes/locations and COs for DSL?

> 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. 

> The data on where the remote DSLAMs are is usually held as proprietary
> by the telcos, and even if you did know where they are, you wouldn't
> know which one you are served out of. 

> Even so, it doesn't give you much, as I'm within walking distance of 3
> remote DSLAMs near my house, but yet the best the telco would give me
> is 1.5Mbps because they don't feed them with anything better than IMA-T1.


> If you want to map out the CO, there is lots of data online. 
> The best site is probably http://www.area-codes.com/

> Plug in your NPA-NXX, and you'll get the latitude and longitude of
> the CO (probably converted from the published H&V). 

Didn't DSLReports or some other web site have an estimater on how far 
the lines were from an address and/or phone number?
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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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