Yay! I'm online again! (Kinda)

So it's dialup (and I'd forgotten how slow that is), and it only works from the phone socket upstairs and not the one downstairs, but I'm online and typing on a big keyboard!

Turns out that the line was working - but there are 3 phone sockets in the flat, and the main one is upstairs and not the one I was trying downstairs. So not BT's fault.

Now I'm not sure how to get the downstairs socket working - that's the one that would be most useful to me. I'm still gettting that "the number you have dialled has not been recognised" message if I use that socket; I'm hoping that's just because I don't have anything plugged into the main socket. I don't have another phone cable to test with unfortunately, but tomorrow I'll get a cable (or it'll probably be just as cheap to get another phone), plug the phone into the upstairs socket and my laptop into the downstairs one, and see if it connects. Holding thumbs!