@acousticvillage wrote:
Thankyou! It's a relief to know I can still use phone extensions. Virgin media seem to assume that everyone just has one landline and that they are willing to have it next to the router.
Do you have any problems with your extensions upstairs, seeing as your main base is under the stairs?
Do you already have phone extension sockets in the bedroom and in the hall?
VM can reconnect existing telephone wall sockets to the phone socket on the hub (free of charge) as part of the switchover process.
Unless there is a specific reason to keep existing phone sockets going (such as burglar alarm connections, medical/care alarms etc.) a cordless phone setup is a better solution IMHO as it is easy to install and more flexible to move around the satellite handsets.
The phones used by VM customers on here which seem to work are mainly from Panasonic, Gigaset (Siemens) and BT.
The BT phones often have the trueCall call screening system built in to screen out unwanted calls (which is a very useful feature) but the BT systems are often the ones which seem to get mentioned in a range of problem topics on here.
