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Originally Posted by Oldcodger
From what I've seen on FB BT sites, the socket on the router providing a phone line is suitable for a standard phone plug. My simple suggestion is to extend house phone wiring to somewhere near router and plug the house system into the router.
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As the next post do this with caution!
I have been on VOIP for almost a year via a full FTTP connection, the call quality is far better than the old 80 year old rural overhead badly, if ever, maintained lines
I was my intention to back feed the router phone socket into the house wiring
By chance I checked one of the currently "disconnected" handsets and it has a dialling tone
My incoming, and now unused, copper telephone line is still live. I tried calling my mobile to get the number but it wil not let me make a call. My contact at BT says its been allocated an unused port for some reason not specified and thinks that is "normal"
I am going to cut the wires where they enter the house
TBH I'm not making much effort as we so rarely get calls on the landline phone at all
So connect your house wiring with caution!
Fred