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Originally Posted by mischievious
I reported that my broadband connection was running very slow and the guy asked if the sky box was on the line and said if it was it needs to be disconnected as it can impact the speed.
Since I have no idea what the thing is trying to do to my phone line and nor do I care I just took his word for it.
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A typical engineer doing a "let's give the customer any excuse as I don't know what's wrong" action.
The sky box has an internal modem (dial-up) and not an ADSL modem. As the two technologies use different frequencies over the copper telephone cable they do not interfere with each other.
As Paul says the ONLY way it could interfere is if it's not filtered correctly but in that case the sky box dialing out would stop your ADSL connection totally and not "slow" it down. (Exactly the same way as a normal ADSL/voice line works via a seperate filter.