Sounds like ADSL. (Assymetric something) You have to have a special box fitted to each telephone extension you have in the house. In New Zealand it just about doubles the dial-up charge, and there is a data charge as well, from memory only data from international sites. Who is the lurk in your ....dom? :-) HTH Rick H Robin Smith wrote: >Hi -- > >I'm coming out of lurkdom to ask a question. Does anyone have any experience >or opinions on the Emerson Switchboard >(http://store.yahoo.com/youcansave/switchboard.html)? It's apparently a >piece of hardware that allows you to split one phone line so that you can be >online and still get phone calls or faxes? > >Thanks, >Robin > >To unsub or change your email settings: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > >To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ >//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > > To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/