"David Lesher" wrote in message ...


The other possibility is you don't have ADSL but rather its cousin
SDSL that does not share the loop. It *IS* theoritically possible
to have ADSL without a phone using the loop, but there are several
reasons it does not happen -- one is Ma could never grok the paperwork
to assign a DSLAM port to that pair,

That is the primary stopper right there. It's hard enough to set up line sharing
even when everything is straightforward. I can't imagine trying to convince them
how to do line-sharing on a line which has nothing on it to share. What telephone
number ?