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| Thread ID: 68518 | 2006-05-02 01:31:00 | Telecom denying the truth | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
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| 451270 | 2006-05-02 10:28:00 | Hmm, slightly off topic... Anyone know where I can get a list of the locations of TC's Phone Exchanges? Love to see how far away I am from my local one :rolleyes: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 451271 | 2006-05-02 10:51:00 | You can't get a list of locations. www.mynetwatchman.com www.mynetwatchman.com Use those websites, and stats from your router to work out, in feet, the distance from your exchange. It's in feet, apparantly I'm ~4500 feet from mine. Note, I have no idea how accurate this is, or what any of the numbers mean. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 451272 | 2006-05-02 11:26:00 | roddy_boy, How do you get 4500 ft? The page you gave seems to be in terms of 0-3000, 3000-6000 etc and the ADSL line rates limited to 1.5M which was common in US. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 451273 | 2006-05-02 11:53:00 | Just used the "Avg SNR Margin" and "Avg Attenuation" columns for both upstream and downstream, and took the average, which worked out to be about the middle of the 3000-6000 ft. Pretty primitive but I don't really need any accurate figures or anything. Also, apparently if you ring up telecom and hassle them enough, they will tell you your distance to the exchange. But not where it is. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 451274 | 2006-05-02 12:00:00 | Hmm, slightly off topic... Anyone know where I can get a list of the locations of TC's Phone Exchanges? Love to see how far away I am from my local one :rolleyes: Easiest way is to call Telecom fault service, they will be able to tell you accurate to few meters. |
STi (8857) | ||
| 451275 | 2006-05-02 12:05:00 | And how much do they charge for that service? :rolleyes: | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 451276 | 2006-05-02 12:15:00 | I was switched over to 3.5 the other day - I used to consistently get 2+ Mb/s downloads, but the improvement I've noticed so far gives me a best of 2.5. Real time use makes it a real why-bother. | Greg (193) | ||
| 451277 | 2006-05-02 12:22:00 | And how much do they charge for that service? :rolleyes: Nothing, I would imagine. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 451278 | 2006-05-02 12:36:00 | How's this for Telecom being bastards. Telecom were upgrading a phone thing down my parents' road on Friday. Unfortunately, they screwed up. All the phone lines down their road got disconnected. When they rang up (off a cellphone) to find out what was going on, (this was on Saturday), they got told someone had screwed up, but not to worry it would be fixed soon. So they asked when soon was, Telecom said this Friday. A whole freaking week. Useless. /rant Not trying to defend telecom, but they may fix it sooner. This was the case when a fault developed that let me listen to other peoples phone conversations through my phone line. They said it will take a week, but it was fixed next day. |
STi (8857) | ||
| 451279 | 2006-05-02 20:59:00 | That sounds like your district exchanges has problems that Telecom needs to fix as up here in south/east Auckland I can get 3.5M, with out any speeds issues :) "ComCom investigates faster, cheaper broadband By Juha Saarinen, Auckland | Monday, 1 May, 2006 The Commerce Commission is investigating a complaint over Telecom’s “Faster, Cheaper Broadband” advertising campaign. The Commission has acknowledged that it is indeed looking into Telecom’s campaign, and has assigned a part-time investigator to the case, according to communications manager Kate Camp. However, with download speeds advertised as 3.5Mbit/s, and upload performance of 128 and 512kbit/s, customer expectation was that the new plans would live up to their promise. High contention rates (or the number of customers sharing the available bandwidth) have been cited as the major reason for current discontent, since they cause peak-time congestion, with severely degraded performance. With Telecom allocating a low 24kbit/s per user per month on its Asynchronous Transmission Mode optical fibre circuits used for the data backhaul, contention rates can soar up to 148:1, according to industry observers. Stephen Crombie, Telecom’s manager of new technology investment, states that the congestion rate is, in fact, 33:1 on average, which would mean that each 256kbit/s customer has less than 8kbit/s bandwidth during peak hours." MY district?? Its more than MY district./ Its not that its a rubbish exchange as such, its the contention ratios and lack of additional hardware in it. Telecom are well aware of it. |
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