VM telephone switch to fibre network with VM new adapter.

[OnlyWhenILaugh]

Good evening all. Will this work?

Re: VM telephone switch to fibre network with VM new adapter.

I have my modem/router-3/tv upstairs. The broadband/tv coax cable runs from my VM-outside-wall-box up and into my loft then to my modem/router/tv - all upstairs.

I have three wired phones. The main incoming VM-phone-socket is downstairs adjacent to the VM-outside-wall-box. From that inside VM-phone-socket I ran a cable to an additional inside-adapter-box-socket and from that I daisy chained two more upstairs - giving me three phone-adapter-box-sockets, one being for a desk phone near my modem/router (all sockets working for more that 20 years).

For the switch over I think all I need do is unplug the phone cable from the main incoming-VM-phone-socket. Plug an adapter-splitter into the phone adapter-box-socket near my desk. This adapter-splitter will have two female-sockets. One for my desk-phone and the other for a male-to-male-cable which I will connect to the female-socket of the new VM-adapter they are going to send - which will be plugged into modem/router. My three adapter-box-socket will remain connected to each other.

I'm hoping this will work without me getting a VM engineer to call?

Regards to all.

[Tudor · Accepted solution]

I think not many people will understand what you want to do, but I do. That should all work. From what I have read, all the VM technicians do is give the user an extension POTS cable!

[OnlyWhenILaugh]

Thank you Tudor. Much appreciated.

[goslow]

Sounds like you plan is feasible (and is along the same lines as what VM does). This is an adapter cable VM uses

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/HUB3-to-Master-socket-adaptor/m-p/4507007#M262932...

which might economise on adapters and splitters if you can find such a thing.

If your corded phones are relatively old (early 2000s or before) you might need to ensure the master socket in your arrangement also carries pin 3 around your extensions for a bell wire connection to all sockets (you would probably have this anyway in your existing setup).

A past topic with useful info on how someone else accomplished the same task is

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/Connecting-Hub-3-to-Extensions/m-p/4797693

The REN of the hub's phone connection is 3, if that has any relevance to what you are connecting in total

[OnlyWhenILaugh]

Thank you goslow. Much appreciated. Yes pins 2, 3, 4, 5, wired in all extensions.