Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

#Telephone set #BritishTelecom 8746 now with replaced 21A microphone insert, working correctly with #Grandstream #HT802 v2 ATA linked to #FreePBX I built on cloud VPS - accepts both #MF (tone) and #LoopDisconnect #dialling (although dialling a full UK mobile number is quite a long process and I had to make sure the timer was at least 4 seconds (or the digits get sent to register before you've dialled any 0 and call fails due to wrong number being sent to #PBX !)

Ring voltage (set to 55V RMS) is strong enough to ring the 4k bell in 8746

So currently this corner of the office looks like its back in 1980s 😁

#VOIP #Telephony

Feb 12 at 12:55pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 17

One of the #GenZ lasses wanted to try out the dial #telephone - to be fair she worked it out on the second try - only issue was she was unused to waiting for proceed (dial) tone and then having to dial the number without leaving too much of a gap between the digits - and then incomplete contents of register being sent to the PBX and NU tone being returned (a lot of younger people have never heard this tone).

She did only try the 3 digit extension numbers (not as much fun dialling an entire UK number with 9 escape digit, area code *and* the number - in 1990s folk often had to write down the telephone number before calling it as dial phones and pulse dialling were still common in Britain until mid 1990s)

Show threadDan HattonFeb 12

@vfrmedia

Oh, that's beautiful.

Vaguely apropos: I have the idea that at some point, I'm supposed to unplug my landline 'phone (a DECT cordless that doesn't rely on the 'phone line for power) from the ADSL filter on the wall and plug it into the back of my broadband router instead, but absolutely no idea *when* I'm supposed to do this. Any ideas?

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 12
@only_ohm the provider of your broadband and telephone service should give you a time/date when this happens - they have to reprovide your analogue phone number as a SIP trunk and then provision the analogue telephone adapter port on the router.
Show threadDan HattonFeb 12

@vfrmedia

Yeah, I was hoping you'd have an answer that didn't require me to open the enormous pile of unopened envelopes from my broadband and telephone provider, just on the off chance that one of them is telling me the switchover date rather than trying to sell me another utterly useless product. Thanks, though.

Show threadDan HattonFeb 12

@vfrmedia

(But if it's SIP, that's very interesting, I might be able to use it from the Linphone client app.)

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 12

@only_ohm this assumes you can get the provider to hand over their SIP credentials (and that the trunk isn't also locked to a range of IPs/VLAN that only they have access to)

You can also get a separate SIP trunk and port your number over (although thats also some extra work)