Hi Suein 56 and Clair Thank you for both replies. Sue the house had a telephone line and adsl when we purchased it a couple of years ago, we never took over the line, so we believe that the line is still there just needs to be recognised, so to speak with a new tel number, we knew about the FT tel line for secondaire but not about the ADSL for secondaire, with so much work tobe done, the last thing we needed at the time was the interruption of phones and emails, but now, things have taken a leap forward and it would be very very useful. Thank you for your help, this now gives us the opportunity of spending a longer time at our home. Clair, thank you for clarifying the Orange website, my french is good but I missed the section on ADSL, I really must invest in a new pair of specs. Thanks liz