ARW wrote:

Then came the funniest thing I have heard for ages. The customer said "I've
just remembered something. When I swapped telephone companys I had the phone
line made into incoming only calls. You might as well "call me ******"[1]
and get down from the ladders".

Me and an IT bloke spent ages today trying to get a DTT modulator to
talk to the laptop. Eventually we discovered that the two ethernet-type
sockets had each other's labels (as referred to in the instructions)
next to them.

Bill