Best way to find distance to local cabinet?

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#171758 30-Apr-2015 11:45

I'm trying to help someone with looking into their slow broadband speeds. Currently they are located in St Heliers on Long Drive and it looks to me like they ought to be getting much better than 5mbps...but I can't tell exactly how far they are from their local cabinet. Can anyone help me zero on how long their loop is? The address is right around 70 Long Drive (don't want to give the exact street number for privacy, but it's within a few houses of that address).

Any suggestions?

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#1294207 30-Apr-2015 12:00

Around 1.2km away from the GDW exchange.

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#1294245 30-Apr-2015 12:32

michaelmurfy: Around 1.2km away from the GDW exchange.

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possibly a little longer than that, that would be walking distance but who knows where the cable actually goes

the exchange is loacted on St Heliers Bay Rd near the park side road intersection

it is a pretty slow speed for the distance though

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#1294287 30-Apr-2015 13:33

I have a family member who lives very close (within 10 houses) and from memory gets somewhere in the region of 10mbps. I'd be looking at the internal wiring.

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#1434456 25-Nov-2015 11:45

So is there a reasonably accurate way to calculate your distance from exchange or cabinet as a way to gauge if VDSL2 is a viable option? Chorus, Orcon and Spark all consider my address marginal at best.

I'm on the local exchange and walking distance following roads is estimated at 0.85KM, but based on my attenuation my estimated line length is 1.6Km

Looking at the Chorus availability map I'm outside of VDSL coverage which stops at the start of my street.

Looking at the VDSL coverage map I'd expect to be included compared with the distance to other properties on the same exchange, so how can I tell what route the actual cables have taken? It appears that the Chorus shading on their maps for VDSL varies between 800m and 1Km.

My ADSL stats are below and I've tried a couple of different modems to see if that affects the SNR and Attenuation levels, but it always come out around the same value. We have a master splitter that was fitted about 4 years ago.

Line State Connected
Modulation ADSL_2plus
Annex Mode Annex A
Max Tx Power -38 dBm/Hz
Item Downstream Upstream Unit
SNR Margin 12 12 dB
Line Attenuation 22 10 dB
Data Rate 15177 981 kbp

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#1434605 25-Nov-2015 14:58

Marginal if your are getting just on 15Mbps ADSL2+ with master splitter installed. The other issue is if your street runs of a multiple. Perhaps try request again early next year once the 998 rollout has long been completed and maybe that will be enough to push you over the threshold.

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