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Hi a big thanks to everyone who answered, particularly Methyl and chuck for their undying patience, thank you very, very much. We have finally got it sorted out. The idiot service provider who had sworn it was not them, phoned today to apologise for the fact that they had placed a restriction on my ex's account in error, despite the fact that we have called them no less than 6 times about this;/ Anyway, all back working perfectly normally now, but thanks to everyone who tried to help, Talk talk are really quite unbelievable.