We investigate the relationship between computable metric spaces (X, d, α) and (X, d, β), where (X, d) is a given metric space. In the case of Euclidean space, α and β are equivalent up to isometry, which does not hold in general. We introduce the notion of effectively dispersed metric space and we use it in the proof of the following result: if (X, d,α) is effectively totally bounded, then (X,...