Will it work if I have a rotary phone?

[Socks]

I don't know if it matters or not, but I live in a really old house (belonged to my grandparents) and it still has the oldstyle rotary phone. Would anyone know if DSL would work with that?

[HSMom]

I don't know. For a while, there was a choice between pulse and tone dialing. If by chance you have pulse dialing (if such a thing still exists), I imagine that would be problematic. Maybe you could call the local DSL company and ask. I know around here, some of the older neighborhoods don't seem to have access to DSL yet, while slightly newer neighborhoods a few blocks away do.

[bonecrusher]

Does it use anything other than a standard phone line? Cause its just a matter of using a different frequency.

[dream3133]

The phone line it the same so DSL should work. Rotery or pluse are simply the type of phone being used.

[Zampano]

You'd probably want to get the lines redone anyways, if they had rotaries.

[Socks]

I'm sure I'll have to get these phones changed out eventually, but they don't even unplug from the wall so I imagine they're going to have to totally redo them.

[alexis]

Being the geek I am - I would try it, just to see what happened.

Being a home owner of a 30 year old house - I would redo all wiring just to be on the safe side.

[conquest102]

The kind of phones that you are using doesn't affect the DSL connection. And if you want to have a DSL connection, the telephone company will advice what is the best thing to do. And most telephone companies will make you buy their own phone for additional profit.