From: Ellen K. 

Eeeww.

You reminded me of the early days of CompuServe where we paid by the baud
rate by the hour (and at the slow one the letters would show up one at a
time on the screen)... anyway, at one point I had some problem and customer
service told me I had a "dirty line".

I'll try plugging a phone into the modem line when I'm logged off and report back.

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:07:18 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote in message :

>Plug a phone line into the dialup use line, just to see.
>
>Sounds like you need a good cleanup of your internal wiring.  Possibly some
>exposed wires in the jacks or junction boxes.
>
>If the modem line is clear, that means you should be able to make the normal
>phone line clear as well.  My guess is that the modem line is clear.
>
>I remember back in my dialup days, that in our new home, I had a similar
>problem, with WSM coming in on the phone line, and it totally screwed up my
>dialup service.  You could actually hear the radio station coming out of the
>modem speaker in the computer.

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