NGA handover exchanges

Does anyone have a list of the NGA handover exchanges as I want to see where my cabinet is connected to

Thanks

Perhaps you could narrow it down a bit?

If you post your local PSTN exchange someone will tell you which NGA exchange it is served by.

I'm not sure the list you're asking for exists for the public.

I am after the full list thanks

In reply to a post by mos:

I am after the full list thanks

I think you may end up disappointed then.

Does anyone have a list of the NGA handover exchanges as I want to see where my cabinet is connected to

So the reason you provided in your 1st post was nonsense.

Would you like to share the real reason for wanting this list?

In reply to a post by mos:

Does anyone have a list of the NGA handover exchanges

Yes, thank you.

In reply to a post by mos:

Does anyone have a list of the NGA handover exchanges as I want to see where my cabinet is connected to

Thanks

Why? It is completely irrelevant to a user.

Now if you were wanting to wipe out the fibre connectivity of a huge number of cabinets/users by attacking an exchange, then it could be very useful information.

In reply to a post by mos:

I am after the full list thanks

Sadly not sure anyone trusts you now

In reply to a post by mos:

Does anyone have a list of the NGA handover exchanges as I want to see where my cabinet is connected to

Thanks

Can�t you just take a guess? Nearest �big� exchange in all likelihood.

Not sure why you�d need you know. You�re probably just interested, which is fair enough but it�s fairly sensitive information.

I know mine is NILDM (Londonderry) as i asked the engineer at the time, we had no 21CN at NILDW (Waterside) at time, other than asking openreach it could be anywhere and makes no difference anything.

PS this was before I got Virgin

Edited by BuckleZ (Mon 04-Mar-19 01:06:44)

https://whatismyipaddress.com

Try this website. Works for me on BT. It shows the location of where I know my handover exchange is, rather than the town I�m actually in.

Don�t forget to click �show me more� for it to show you the postcode area.

Edited by deleted (Fri 08-Mar-19 17:08:01)

In reply to a post by Icaras:

https://whatismyipaddress.com

Try this website. Works for me on BT. It shows the location of where I know my handover exchange is, rather than the town I�m actually in.

Moffat, Scotland?

Lol!

Worst. Geo. Lookup. Ever.

I'm half way between London and Birmingham

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

https://whatismyipaddress.com

Try this website. Works for me on BT. It shows the location of where I know my handover exchange is, rather than the town I�m actually in.

Moffat, Scotland?

Lol!

Worst. Geo. Lookup. Ever.

I'm half way between London and Birmingham

LOL 50 miles away from my home.

I'm half way between London and Birmingham

Brackley at a guess

It put me in Southern France ......

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

I'm half way between London and Birmingham

Brackley at a guess

Yeah but there is a Brackley in Scotland.

It's grim up north.
Better down south.

For a while the BBC weather site used to offer 'Brackley, Highland' as the top choice in the search bar but I see that they've fixed it and now 'my' Brackley is the default. A much more sensible arrangement since the former appears to be a large house just outside Inverness Airport as opposed to the thriving community of 14,000 where I live

Edited by Andrue (Fri 08-Mar-19 20:56:35)

Apparently I'm in London. The FTTC headend exchange here is Stockport, and when I was with Andrews and Arnold I was often seemingly located in Arnold.

Maybe it's because they discovered I once went to Arnold School.

Ummm - that is or was in Blackpool!

Well that sites Geo Location was spot on for me on my IPv4 + IPv6 addresses.

Loads of other Geo Location sites all show different locations, so I guess it depends on how up to date the database library is.

One site says I am in Sheffield which is 141 miles (birds eye) away from me, I am located about 3.3 miles (birds eye) from Telehouse in docklands.

But it was funny looking them up.

Paul

Exactly! Most other sites showed the wrong location but this one got it exactly right for my handover exchange.

Other people might have more success with other sites.

IT IS NOT TELLING YOU YOUR HANDOVER EXCHANGE

It is just a coincidence or the coming together of many factors that the IP is locating to that location.

Agreed.

Paul

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

IT IS NOT TELLING YOU YOUR HANDOVER EXCHANGE

It is just a coincidence or the coming together of many factors that the IP is locating to that location.

Some coincidence that it�s telling me the address of the handover exchange that�s 4 miles away and isn�t showing me as being in the actual town that I�m in.

Out of all the towns in my borough that it could have shown (and there�s 5 different handover exchanges in my borough) it shows the correct town.

Edited by deleted (Sat 09-Mar-19 17:44:54)

Well that came up with my town, which is a comparatively small town outside Glasgow.
So I'd say spot on

Maybe your CP has a POP there?

I confess to being somewhat curious about this at one point.

Back when VDSL was being rolled out OR published a couple of progress spreadsheets. They had two columns, one gave the name of the town and the other gave the name of the exchange. I remember being intrigued at the time because Brackley had Banbury down as the exchange.

It sort of makes sense (Banbury exchange is a tower block whilst Brackley appears to be a converted garden shed) and running a fibre up the A422 seems sensible. But when I had ADSL I was told by the Be support staff that we were connected via Buckingham exchange back to Milton Keynes. In some ways that makes more sense given how important MK exchange is.

But as others have said - if it works it doesn't matter. And if it doesn't work it still doesn't matter 'cos there's nowt you can do about it anyway.

But Be ADSL2+ was nothing to do with actual fibre routeing for FTTC. Where your copper went, and probably still does, is irrelevant.

I wouldn�t know. I�m with BT.

I�m not saying this would work with all CPs as it depends on their network layout.

Waste of time, "Uckfield East Sussex" thats a couple of hundred miles from me on the coastal end of South West Wales!

AIUI IP Address is allocated to your ISP, this surely has no relation to your physical location, and is more closely linked to the ISP POP

In reply to a post by warweezil:

AIUI IP Address is allocated to your ISP, this surely has no relation to your physical location, and is more closely linked to the ISP POP

That is exactly right. NGA connections are tunnelled to the ISP POP, and it's the ISP which assigns the IP addresses.