Hi all,
Can someone help me before I go mad!?
I'm after a standard RJ11 - BT plug phone lead.
I've bought several in the past from Homebase (we have house rabbits that tend to eat leads for breakfast). These have all worked fine. They were silver in colour.
I have now purchased 3 new leads from different branches of homebase. They are now white in colour. They also do silver ones, but these are marked as modem leads, so I presume the pins are crossed. All 3 leads do not work either on my phone, or and others I've tried (even in someone else's house).
Am I going nuts? Have Homebase changed the pin outs? Is it a faulty batch? When I took them back the girl I spoke to didn't have a clue.
So, I gave up on Homebase and have searched EVERYWHERE for a simple flipping phone lead! No-one does them! Extension leads, no problem. Modem leads by the tonne. But nowhere does a phone lead! Even BT's website (unless I'm going blind). Is there a conspiricy? Do BT have a monopoly arrangement with Homebase? Have aliens stolen all the phone leads?
I may just give up and by the bits from Maplin and make up my own, but it's a lot of hastle just for a lead. Has anyone else had these problems?
Cheers, Jeremy