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[blott]

We've got alarm monitoring on the same line and it doesn't make any difference to our dial up internet connection, which we can use without problem.

Are you sure the problem wasn't due to the call blocking on the line you may have had? If you have a call blocking system which needs a credit card then this may have affected your use of the line for the internet.

[Ana]

All local calls were free and we had no problem making or receiving them. I assumed that as long as this was the case we'd be able to dial up on a local access no.

We did suffer faint crosstalk occasionally. Maybe this was more to with the prob than the alarm.

[blott]

Ah, I wonder if the number you were trying to dial for the internet was within the local calling area? Sometimes numbers with the same prefix, ie 407, etc aren't within the local free call area as this is normally not extensive.

[Ana]

I didn't realise that!