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proximity to telecom exchange as a real estate factor
Had an internet guy in to deal with my installation issues. Upshot was that he reckoned there was nowt I could do because the line to my area is crap.
I have a line speed of a little over 3 kps . Foolishly I asked him what he gets- 14 or 15 was the response .
He only lives in the next suburb but is closer to a telecom exchange.
So it cost me 80 bucks to be told I have invested quite a few dollars on hardware that was going to make no improvement on my internet speeds and to also afflict me with a severe bout of line speed envy.
Next time I move I will be looking into this as a consideration.
location location location is the mantra of real estate but not sure they were thinking of proximity to telecoms exchanges
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Might be worth
giving Opera Turbo a try.
a/b/c test
3 mb using optus line speed test
safari 3.32
google chrome 3.34
opera turbo 3.3
It doesn't
increase your connection speed. It compresses remote webpages meaning they're supposed to load faster.
<smug>Although I've never used it. I have 12 Mbps at home.</smug>
excuse my ignorance
thanks for your comments
I suspect
the benefits are subjective. I don't know if any improvements at the user end are measurable.
Moving Home
I'm making plans to move next year and "exchange distance" is most definitely a factor in my selection of a new abode.
We used to have shite speed
and they blamed it on distance from the exchange. Now have BT Infinity and 40mbps
My local exchange...
...in Cornwall was upgraded for something called Superfast Broadband earlier this year, all kinds of high-speed digital delights were promised courtesy of some Euro bonanza. Turns out in my rural bliss I'm STILL too far from the exchange. Now my house hasn't moved any further away from the exchange, so obviously I never figured in their thinking in the first place. Having said which, subjectively I'm reasonably happy - iPlayer works nearly all the time, and downloads turn up reasonably quickly.
But if all goes well we're moving soon into town, which is scheduled for something called 'fibre into premises', which was definitely a factor in the decision-making process.
Whereabouts in Cornwall?
We don't get it in my part of Cornwall until October 2012. :-(
Here on The Point in Portsmouth..
We dangle at the very end of a bit of copper cable. The Virgin fibre-optic line, however, is a lifesaver. As DFB says, though, the way BT seem to be about to roll out their super-fast stuf is going to change things a fair bit and the poximity to exchange thing will become far less of an issue.
Only yesterday
What a coincidence, I was just having a conversation about this yesterday. I was maintainig that the availability of a decent broadband connection must make a difference to house prices. My in-laws live on a relatively new estate (6 years old?) and they manage to get (along with everyone else on the estate if the speedchecker maps are to be believed) about 450kps!! Once people are aware of this limitation surely it makes houses in the area harder to sell. I know if I was to consider moving then I would check the broadband speed 1st then streetview then the price!
We moved recently
and I was advised that the expected download speed was about 1 mps "based on info from BT". I was furious as we'd only moved half a mile and were now actually nearer to the exchange - and previously had enjoyed an 8 mps service.
Come the day of connection, I gingerly ran a speed check and discovered that we were actually getting speeds of 10 meg, as well as a faster upload speed.
Very odd.
might I suggest you dont move
to Mentone, Melbourne Australia then
by the sea granted which is handy as you can watch the ships come in while the web pages unfold
the Govt is rolling out a horrendously expensive fibre optic national broadband network
bring it on I say
All this talk of copper and fibre
At what point does all this become superfluous as the country is enveloped in a massive great big cloud of wireless?
that is the raging debate in australia
with the opposition arguing that the govt has committed to a technology that while currently cutting edge may soon be overtaken by newer cheaper technology
I guess it is a bit like buying anything technology based - whatever you buy will soon be superseded
This is quite informative on the Australian approach to delivering high speed internet to a small population across a vast largely empty continent.
http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-network/fibre-wireless-satellite.html