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Originally Posted by ianathuth
Distance from a BT exchange is another thing that some people get wrong as they do not know the routing that the wires follow. You can live next door to an exchange but your connection to it may have been following an old route that existed before the exchange was built and could be well outside the distance for higher speed ADSL.
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True. It's not quite the same thing, but we used to have a small workshop near our server room and next do to one of the patch panel rooms (where the network sockets are connected to the switches, same sort of thing as an exchange). We always got a unreliable connection there. When we investigated , the reason was that despite the work room being next door to the patch room, on the network there was slightly over 100 metres of cable between them. The safe maximum cable length (from Switch to computer) is 100 Metres.