FttP and VoiP

[Rekusu]

What ho one and all,

After three months of faffing around, Openreach orders created then cancelled, three cancelled engineer visits, yesterday, finally, an OR engineer with common sense managed to fit the fibre, and described the job to a colleague, as 'p*ss easy!'

The original copper has been removed, EE will assign a temp phone number before moving my existing number to the new VoiP service. One phone is plugged into the router and currently gives a 'no number on this service' message, which is fine. Have plugged the supplied Home Phone Adaptor into a13a socket next to an extension phone but it is not syncing with the router; perhaps that is because there is no live VoiP connection yet. Time will tell.

However, although there is no copper connection to the outside world, all the BT wiring and Master Socket is of course,still in place. Is there a way to connect extension phones to the router using the existing wiring rather than relying on a wi-fi signal? In other words, can the extension phones be plugged into the existing BT wiring and the Master Socket connected directly to the router via the RJ11 socket on the back of the router?

Thanks and toodle pip

 

[Wayners]

Phone line out the router is just a phone line like it's always been. Same as wall sockets.
We just plugged our 20 year old landline phone into WiFi router green plug hole and it worked.
Same at mother in laws house.
I unplugged phone from BT wall socket and plugged in router and it works.

The line is digital and some modern phones take advantage of that but you can use any modern phone and it should work straight away.

You use that same plug to wire to internal house phone wiring and you can plug phones in around house.
YouTube videos on that.

Master socket is not required or used. You just use slave sockets so old phone line needs disconnecting as the voltage will cause problems on your phone's

You can also get landline and mobile phone to ring at the same time I see.
Have one mobile number and one landline number both on the same mobile phone.
Just for the record I switched the landline off last month and and saved the £9per month it was costing

 

[Rekusu]

Thanks for your reply but not sure I understand.
I have plugged an analogue phone into the router green port and as I now have a temp number, it is working (dial tone and received an incoming call from my mobile) until my normal number is transferred.

We do have two other phones around the house and I would also like them to work, preferable not via wi-fi. But plugging an extension phone into the BT wall socket will not do anything as there is no contact witht he router.

 

[Wayners]

Phones don't run on WiFi.
You can buy packs of phones that' pick up a signal from base station that's plugged in router.
Like this.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8247250

That's your best bet.

Other option is to wire the router phone line to the house phone wire ring and plug phones in around house so you keep existing phone's plugged in.
Some basic DIY skills required and follow instructions on YouTube

If there are WiFi landline phones I've never seen them yet

 

[spile]

Cordless phones in your house would use DECT, not Wi-Fi, to connect to their base station.

 

[Rekusu]

Have connected the green router socket to a BT wall socket and the phone to their respective BT wall sockets and it is all working fine. Both analogue and DECT.

The major advantages are that they are all hardwired and they are not using 13A sockets, which are in short supply.