Line Distance Test varies

[John]

I have 3 lines at my house in San Rafael. I ran the availability test for each number. I got the following results:
1- 8,048'
2- 6,744'
3- 5,979'
All three test were performed within 3 minutes, so I must exclude differing temperatures of the copper wire affecting its DC resistance.

thoughts?

Another question: what is the actual throughput of data (bytes per second, not bits through the wire), anyone know?

thanks
John

[hinioman]

Beside the pre-qual tool in fusion, I see this outline of instruction from dslreports.com to find your current serving CO

Tools to help find the CO near you.

• http://www.dslreports.com/coinfo <---- enter telephone number or zipcode. It will give you all the CO around your location
• http://www.marigoldtech.com/lists/co.php <--- once you find the CO close to you using DSLreports.com tool, this give you a better map (using Google map).

In the 2nd step and if you happen to find the CO location map. Please note down the value of Latitude and Longitude of your CO location and use https://maps.google.com/. You can enter those numbers straight into google maps and find a route from your home to CO and get a rough estimate on distance.

I see some reference to speed and distance in this link: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r269108 ... ance-chart. Please bear in mind that the speed varies with many factors.

Hope this helps you,
Hin

[dane]

Different in-service lines at the same premise may have different field make-up; bridged taps, etc. Additionaly, it's a crufty giant old data set, cable records are imperfect, which is why it's simply an estimate.

As you have three lines today, I would suggest ordering business, two line, bonded Fusion on the two which report as shortest. It will be really quite fast.