Ah, there's your culprit. Here's more info -
http://www.dslreports.com/information/kb/load+coil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Garner" <sgarner@expio.co.nz>
To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: ADSL modems on dodgy/long lines
>
> I should note the house is only 4 years old - it was newly built when I
> first tried to get DSL - so I would expect the internal wiring to be
> decent enough.
>
> One thing I should probably add. When I was doing this four years ago,
> somebody from Telecom (from this list in fact) contacted me and did some
> sort of a test on the line and found there were "loading coils", which,
> he said, would prevent DSL from working. Anybody know what that means?

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