Date   : Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:21:52 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities

Rob wrote:

> How big a green box? Normally exchanges are fairly large - even the
> smallest village's would be about the size of a double garage.  It's
> possible it's just a fancy Distribution Point, with the exchange some
> way away along a hefty multi-pair cable.

http://www.ariase.com/fr/guides/nra-noeud-raccordement.html
[it's in French]

Or, if you can handle eccentric autotranslation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ariase.com%2Ffr%2Fguides%2Fnra-noeud-raccordement.html&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Page 2 ("Page Suivant" at the bottom) is interesting. It suggests that 
the range can be extended from the exchange by having this thing which 
is, I guess, like a sort of repeater?


The box I was describing is the thing marked "Sous-r?partiteur", the 
bigger load of equipment could be hidden in any number of buildings 
around. There is an old pigsty with vents sealed, tarted up nice, and 
rather a lot of electrical connections into it. Perhaps that's it?


According to the site, our local exchange is not in the village, but 
about 2km up the road. The 4700m quoted could be into centre-bourg and 
back out again? I'm not sure how much I trust the site, though, as it is 
supposed to serve four small villages in a span of, oh, maybe 10 miles? 
It is not exactly placed in the best position to serve them all! That 
said, if the weather is nice and I go out cycling, I might take the 
camera and make a brief detour to where the Google-Map pinpoint says it 
ought to be...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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