Telecom exchanges and residential safety
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We're looking at buying a house we really love in every way - except that it's next door neighbour on one side is a Telstra exchange. There's no celphone tower or anything like that, but it is a telephone exchange. We're trying to figure out via Google whether this is any risk to ours or our kids health. I then remembered that some of you are quite likely to know about this sort of thing and thought I'd ask here too :) Thanks! (and sorry for being such a stranger - my young bosses set serious limits on how long I'm allowed to spend online :rolleyes: )
A mum and loving it! My (very young) blog[^]
I would imagine that all exchanges nowadays are simply racks of routers. Think of the speed of your ADSL! (I've got ADSL2+ down in Melbourne and get around 19Mb/s. It so totally rocks)
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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We're looking at buying a house we really love in every way - except that it's next door neighbour on one side is a Telstra exchange. There's no celphone tower or anything like that, but it is a telephone exchange. We're trying to figure out via Google whether this is any risk to ours or our kids health. I then remembered that some of you are quite likely to know about this sort of thing and thought I'd ask here too :) Thanks! (and sorry for being such a stranger - my young bosses set serious limits on how long I'm allowed to spend online :rolleyes: )
A mum and loving it! My (very young) blog[^]
Megan Forbes wrote:
this is any risk to ours or our kids health.
My personal belief is that there is no risk and I doubt that there is any conclusive evidence in this regard. I lived near a telecom exchange for 5 years. In fact there was a cell tower near by too. I agree with Chris, the DSL speed was pretty fast in my apartment. But again I am no expert. Also look at general perception regarding this. If more people perceive that telecom exchange is a risk to health then even if you don't believe so, do not buy a home near the telecom exchange. The reason is simple: resale value. Because few people will be willing to buy the home from you, (due of their understanding or misunderstanding about effect of telecom exchange on health) you may have difficult time selling it.
Megan Forbes wrote:
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CG will love that.
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We're looking at buying a house we really love in every way - except that it's next door neighbour on one side is a Telstra exchange. There's no celphone tower or anything like that, but it is a telephone exchange. We're trying to figure out via Google whether this is any risk to ours or our kids health. I then remembered that some of you are quite likely to know about this sort of thing and thought I'd ask here too :) Thanks! (and sorry for being such a stranger - my young bosses set serious limits on how long I'm allowed to spend online :rolleyes: )
A mum and loving it! My (very young) blog[^]
It should be a nice peaceful neighbour, no noisy parties etc.. It should be good for ADSL speeds!! I don't know of any health concerns with any of the normal communications equipment, but there is a certain amount of public concern about mobile phone radiation. If you are concerned about living near mobile phone transmitters then I guess you are much more likely to end up with this by buying next to a Telstra exchange than anywhere else. Unless this exchange is in a particularly poor site for mobile coverage then if it isn't currently used as a base station then it may be in the future. I don't think that the council can stop them (but I'm not sure about that - the rules do change). Just because there is not a tower on top doesn't mean that there are not disguised antennas there somewhere. When I was working with some of the mobile operators I was once shown a photo of how they installed a base station in a 'sensitive' area - by adding a fake chimmney to an old building! You may be safe if it is a really lousy site for a base station, I guess one indication of this would be if there is a Telstra tower within a few km. So if mobile phone radiation is going to cause you sleepless nights I'd skip it. If I ended up near a mobile phone tower I wouldn't lose any sleep, but given the option I'd probably avoid it. Beside which, Telstra are notorious for ignoring the community in development applications, I don't know how considerate they are of neighbours. Christian is a Telstra expert, he will give them a character reference.
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
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I would imagine that all exchanges nowadays are simply racks of routers. Think of the speed of your ADSL! (I've got ADSL2+ down in Melbourne and get around 19Mb/s. It so totally rocks)
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
19 MB a second ? For a second I was ready to boast about my 300 kps. What sort of plans do you get with that ? I mean, I pay $200 for 3 gig and then 40 cents a meg after that.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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19 MB a second ? For a second I was ready to boast about my 300 kps. What sort of plans do you get with that ? I mean, I pay $200 for 3 gig and then 40 cents a meg after that.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
I'm with iinet[^]. 30Gb @ $70. 19mbps, not 19MBps. But still. It rocks.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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We're looking at buying a house we really love in every way - except that it's next door neighbour on one side is a Telstra exchange. There's no celphone tower or anything like that, but it is a telephone exchange. We're trying to figure out via Google whether this is any risk to ours or our kids health. I then remembered that some of you are quite likely to know about this sort of thing and thought I'd ask here too :) Thanks! (and sorry for being such a stranger - my young bosses set serious limits on how long I'm allowed to spend online :rolleyes: )
A mum and loving it! My (very young) blog[^]
Thanks for the answers - I suspect if there was desperately wrong then the first 3 would have contained messages of doom :) I suspect that the resale value would be affected - it is going for about $20K less than similar homes in the immediate area (which does make it rather attractive now while we're buying, but yes, less so for the future when we'll be selling). Chris, I didn't know you'd moved back to Aus - how are you enjoying being home?
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I'm with iinet[^]. 30Gb @ $70. 19mbps, not 19MBps. But still. It rocks.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
*sigh* I feel very sad now.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I'm with iinet[^]. 30Gb @ $70. 19mbps, not 19MBps. But still. It rocks.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Thought we were the only ones in Belgium with stupid monthly limits, my current abbo is 20Mbps cable with 35GB.
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We're looking at buying a house we really love in every way - except that it's next door neighbour on one side is a Telstra exchange. There's no celphone tower or anything like that, but it is a telephone exchange. We're trying to figure out via Google whether this is any risk to ours or our kids health. I then remembered that some of you are quite likely to know about this sort of thing and thought I'd ask here too :) Thanks! (and sorry for being such a stranger - my young bosses set serious limits on how long I'm allowed to spend online :rolleyes: )
A mum and loving it! My (very young) blog[^]
There won't be many emissions from a wired exchange, it's all twisted pairs etc. at low power. Remember - any interference they generate would affect their own equipment. Elaine :rose: PS Howdy stranger :-D
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We're looking at buying a house we really love in every way - except that it's next door neighbour on one side is a Telstra exchange. There's no celphone tower or anything like that, but it is a telephone exchange. We're trying to figure out via Google whether this is any risk to ours or our kids health. I then remembered that some of you are quite likely to know about this sort of thing and thought I'd ask here too :) Thanks! (and sorry for being such a stranger - my young bosses set serious limits on how long I'm allowed to spend online :rolleyes: )
A mum and loving it! My (very young) blog[^]
Collateral damage from an attack by a disgruntled customer?
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