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Shared phone line

If you’ve ever wanted to use the phone only to find someone else in the house is on the internet this feature will be very appealing.

Your computer connects to broadband in a very similar way as it does to dial-up – by linking to the internet via a modem. It is just the broadband technology behind the scenes that changes.

The principal benefit of the change is that it allows you to make telephone calls at the same time as being on the internet. So using the web will never prevent you from making a phone call and vice versa.

This is useful when you want to look at the same website as the person you are talking to on the phone.

If you happen to have an extra phone line for the internet, you can consider giving it up. It also means you need have no fears about missing important calls when you are web surfing.

A broadband connection can support more than one computer. So you can connect all the computers in the house to the internet through the same connection at the same time - and still leave the phone free.