I've been thinking about this while rebuilding the bed... currently we have 4 handsets, one each in the kitchen, lounge, her bedroom and my office/bedroom. Guess who makes/receives most of the calls! Daytime, it can sit on its charger in the kitchen, in the evening she can take the handset to her TV and recharge the battery overnight. If I want to make an outgoing call, I'll go and find it:-)
er Pass. It is a Panasonic set of 4 which plugs into the incoming BT socket.
one for the hub.
I could take that as an insult but we are both in the 80 region.
I don't use the phone book anyway but it is useful to have the caller's name displayed before answering.
Hmm. I can't see that lump of battery pack being welcome in her kitchen:-)
I thought that was the plan; in which case, existing phones plugged into green socket should also work.
The phone on this desk (a Panasonic) and the other 3 in the house are all cordless ones. All 4 work with VOIP.
Or - you might be a "vulnerable" customer, Two battery power units implies you are one. The "digital" phone is for use during a power cut - working to a mobile signal.
No, the phone has its own internal batteries. One Power unit for the Router and one for the ONT (the box that turns the fibre signal into something the router can understand|)
In message snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk>, charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> writes
Yes indeed. I hope to persuade the fitter to put that in the loft. I know they want to fit a termination reachable from ground level but the existing phone cable is loose laid across the two lofts and should be easy if they link the new incomer to that and pull gently.
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Fingers very much crossed!
The fitters for a CityFiber installation, which I had done a couple of weeks ago, refused to do anything above head height. To their credit they were willing to work with me doing all the high bits.
Previously, I have had a BT installation done via an overhead cable. Obviously they were willing to work at height, and they put the cable into an upstairs bedroom cupboard.
The CityFiber fitter told me there is a minimum bend radius, i.e. you can permanently bugger the cable if you bend it too tightly. So you have to be careful of pulling.
When I had my Citylink fibre installed one guy climbed the telegraph pole to attach one end and then climbed a ladder to the eves of my 2 storey house to anchor the overhead connection. The fibre enters my house at a foot or so above ground level
About 20x the diameter of the cable. The problem with pulling may be getting it caught on a sharp edge and kinking it.
When my overheead fibre was installed,a "cherry picker" had to be brought in so the men could work safely at that height.
you will need a mains supply there. I assume you can arrange that.
Internal "wiring" is usually done with bend insensitive fibre. The best grade G.657.B3 allows a minimum bend radius of 5mm. John
It's a bit of glass, you can only bend it so far before it cracks.
BT won't climb poles any more, they're only trees, most are quite old and a few have broken off. A matter of insurance.
A schoolfriend of mine, has worked for BT since leaving school after the
5th form, never wanted promotion, at 61 still works down manholes and up poles every day, unless a given pole has been declared unsafe.Yet the fibre altnets who now share openreach's poles, employ young lads who use a cherry-picker every time ...
See my reply below ...
In message snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk>, charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> writes
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Yes. Two spare 13 amp sockets.
The most convenient location for the fitters is my ground floor office/bedroom but it is the worst possible place for wi-fi distribution and I really don't want more flickering LEDs than I have already! Avoiding a sharp bend radius pulling through a second storey brick wall might need someone up the ladder. Job due to start at 8.00am. Checked my phone and found a new text asking me to confirm I have the authority to allow them to drill holes through the wall!
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