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Andy Mabbett wrote:
Thanks to everyone for their help - it's working OK, now, and I'll be
off to Maplin for a modem extension lead as soon as I can!

Oddly, my original setup worked OK, with my previous phone!

It would depend on the sort of load the phone puts on the line. You'd
think they'd all be the same, but they're not. If it presented a lowish
impedance to high frequencies it could take out the ADSL carrier.
Well, that's my theory. ;-)

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