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[kitz]

Regarding the adslchecker problems in this thread and the google api....   can I have some guinea pigs please to test out the new version.



Please bear in mind that :-
It uses your postal code and therefore will select a midpoint, rather than your actual house.
Its still a work in progress so not quite everything works yet.
Theres no images and the layout isnt finished so it looks a bit rough.

Im concentrating on being able to return distance information between home and exchange and the google map info.

Thanks

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Edited to add

Thank you every one for you feedback, new version is live

[toulouse]

Hello Kitz,

I've just tried out the new ADSL checker, and it seems to be OK.

One thing, which may or may not be relevant is that according to the Attenuation for my line, it has previously been reported (both by the old one on here and others) that my distance form the exchange is 2.3Km, whereas the new one says 1.7Km.

TTFN

toulouse

[kitz]

If youre talking about the figure obtained from the maximum speed calculator, then that should always be more accurate than the figures obtained from the google maps which uses road distance.

The figure obtained from the adslchecker wont ever be as accurate because it uses your postal code which will obviously cover quite a few houses (or a whole street).  It also cant know if the route for the telephone cable goes around the houses before reaching your home.

In most instances the road distance will normally provide a good guide for anyone who doesnt already have any line stats to give a guide for the line length. 
AFAIK I was the only site to be able to provide this information and most others tended to use the direct crow flies, which is usually much too short.   When the distance figures broke, I received a lot of requests to find a way to put this back in.  Unfortunately it wasnt an easy fix so has taken longer than anticipated to find a solution. :/

[oldfogy]

I don't have ADSL, just VM cable.

But I just tried the checker but don't know what to do with the results, I can't post a copy as it has too much personal info such as phone number and house location.

Would it help, or would it be possible for you to supply a link whereas people like myself could forward the results onto yourself?

[roseway]

It seems to work out the road distance quite accurately for me.

[kitz]

@OF.  Thank you - if you didnt see anything stupid then its probably working fine

@ eric... thankyou.


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and if anyones trying to use it atm Ive just broken it 

[tonyappuk]

Working fine for me.
Tony

[HPsauce]

I'm on a corner and have 2 postcodes available, though only one is "really" mine.
Both worked fine and gave sensible results, though it seems slow to respond.

[kitz]

Thanks

>>  though it seems slow to respond.

Thats what Im messing with atm to see if I can try to do anything to speed it up & how I managed to break it 
   
The problem is it has to access so many different databases (Mine, Sams, BTw, google maps & maps.api) and if one of those is slow, then its slows the whole thing down.  I 'think' its google maps atm.   The BTw  data will always be slow anyhow since theres a lot of data to pull, and it warns it can take >1min,  but cant do anything about that.

[verkosh]

Seems to work.

The distances seem right

[burakkucat]

I've just had a play by inputting the details for The Cattery (a TT LLU'd line) and for that of my neighbour, Gordon, (a Beatie Infinity VDSL2 line).

Both sets of results are as to be expected. 

[HPsauce]

it warns it can take >1min, 

Maybe you could put up some sort of progress indicator, something more meaningful than the usual moving blocks though. 

[Bald_Eagle1]

It looks quite reasonable using my VDSL2 phone No. & post code.

The old checker used to report around 4.9km from the exchange.

The mouslike BRAS checker & Plusnet both reported my line as 5283m

The test checker reports 5.1km which is probably quite realistic.

[sevenlayermuddle]

Works fine as far as map and didtance are concerned, very accurate.

The BT speed estimation is way off the mark, reports 2Mb for 'max', whereas I don't think I've connected at anything less than 3.5 for about two years or so, under natural DLM control - no tweaking.   

[sheddyian]

All seems sensible for my location, though it thinks my exchange is at the wrong end of the road it's in, which skews the figures a bit - but I'm pretty sure that's a postcode thing.

Wouldn't it be good to have a database of exact locations for BT exchanges that you could access?

Wonder if such a list would technically be classified information, due to fear of terrorists (or the Ruskies if you're using a GPO directory) 

Ian