@davedicko wrote:
Thanks 🙏 for the info,with the main telephone plugged into the modem in a different room,i don’t always hear it especially if I am in the bedroom where the ringtone is turned off (so it doesn’t disturb our sleep),I wanted to check the line was working at the socket before being plugged into the modem so I could move it back,needless to say i don’t like change. Thanks 🙏 for your help…. Dave 🤓
If you can make calls from your landline phone when the phone is plugged into TEL1 on the VM hub, then you have already been swapped to a 21CV connection with VM.
Under those circumstances, your former telephone extension sockets around the home would normally no longer work, unless a VM tech has taken measures to link those previous extension sockets to the phone socket on the VM hub.
This normally has to be requested but should be free at time of switchover. If you want that doing later down the line there may be a £25 charge to do that.
If you do not want to be disturbed by the phone at night, have a look in your phone manual for a 'do not disturb' feature/setting. Some phones (such as from BT and Panasonic) allow you to set times of day when the phone remains silent (instead going to answering machine for incoming calls). Some also allow callers who are logged in the phone contacts list as 'VIP' callers (terminology varies between manufacturers) to break through the do not disturb feature (e.g. to receive urgent calls from family/friends etc. during the night)
