[plug] Exchange locations

[Ryan]

Short of asking Telstra or a technician to tell you the location of the 
number one target for sabotage and vandalism in your suburb, which probably 
explains why they don't readily divulge such information, I can only offer 
some slightly alternative suggestions:

One way would be to look for the outright ugliest building* in your suburb 
and you've found it.  If you are lucky there may even be a Telstra van 
outside it and then you can ring the number on those "Telstra values safe 
driving" stickers and say the dude was parked dangerously*.

Another way would be to drive a (preferably someone else's) car into one of 
those dinky grey Telstra poles*.  If you do a good enough job and short 
things out, a Telstra van will arrive and shortly have to go off to the 
exchange, with you in shadow.

*Apologies to any readers who were the architect for one of these 
exchanges, parks their Telstra van dangerously, or gets arrested for 
driving a stolen car into Telstra property.  :)

Ryan

At 10:17 PM 4/02/02 +0800, you wrote:
>Can someone tell me how I find the actual physical location of a telephone
>exchange. I have been all over telstra and iinet looking but can't find it. I
>want to check ADSL and distance to the exchange, without a telephone number.
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>Love
>Mike.