Dial-up Vs Broadband

**OV Lander** · 20th March 2008, 19:24

Originally Posted by Subike

I am only 100 meters from my exchange booster box at the top of my drive!
Bugger!

(Cabinet)

You ain't gonna top that!

**James Deuce** · 20th March 2008, 19:28

Originally Posted by OV Lander

Some basic DSL facts:
A - the nearer you live near to the exchange/cabinet the faster the speed
B - the fewer users who share your network branch the greater the speed

So....
- to have DSL you must be less than 5kms from the exchange/cabinet
- how many neighbours do you have?

Not necessarily.

You can live right next door, but if they are pair sharing, as they do at many RLUs and NEAX 61Es you may well be right out of luck altogther. NZ's PSTN defies the generally accepted rules thanks to some undisclosed corporation refusing to reinvest in infrastructure and then piling crappy fix after crappy fix on top of each other.

They shouldn't be spending ANYTHING on extending a copper network AT ALL.

**OV Lander** · 20th March 2008, 20:33

Originally Posted by Jim2

if they are pair sharing, as they do at many RLUs and NEAX 61Es you may well be right out of luck altogther.

Had not intended to get too technical, but exactly what I mean by sharing... ...of course, could be worse if you were off a K, or even an M!!

Originally Posted by Jim2

They shouldn't be spending ANYTHING on extending a copper network AT ALL.

The new Cabinets will be extending the fibre network, not the copper network.... ...as I suspect you well know

**James Deuce** · 20th March 2008, 20:37

Originally Posted by OV Lander

Had not intended to get too technical, but exactly what I mean by sharing... ...of course, could be worse if you were off a K, or even an M!!

The new Cabinets will be extending the fibre network, not the copper network.... ...as I suspect you well know

Still copper to the subscriber.

Dumb idea.