Oops I top-posted. Shame on me! Oops Forgot to add that, when the power goes out and the VDSL box is dark= , the=20 main telephone line still works. (I guess this means it's using 2 of the = 4=20 wires, and that the second phone, the TV channels and the Internet are al= l=20 flowing on the remaining two wires. Really cool!) --=20 Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/