Changed unexpected to Digital - now issues.

[imjolly]

just connect your existing phone base unit to the green socket on back of hub and your existing phone should work as before.  remember with digital voice you must use the full phone number not any short code numbers like you could do for local calls on previous phone system

[licquorice]

If your base station was previously plugged into a phone socket adjacent to your hub, all that was needed was to simply unplug it and plug it into the hub and it would have continued to work as before. Nothing else needed.

[GillyFB]

I quote from my previous post - 

'2. To be quite truthful I cannot remember how I paired my BT Cordless phones at the start.  I know I want to keep the base unit plugged into our kitchen work top.  (Are my handsets referred to as Digital Voice?)'

So Hub is in dining room on a dresser next to external socket inside window.  My base unit is out in kitchen which I walk to from dining room - no door - only thick internal walls. 

Again thank you all for input.

[GillyFB]

Thank you - I can open link and will read through later.  Weather is so lovely and helping husband get bean stick up

[chrisjp]

"...but - do they ask at these workshops about your home construction, etc, etc?"

Digital voice is not affected at all by a home's construction, and operates exactly as the old analogue landline did. The only difference is that the phone, or better the phone's base station, is plugged into the internet router instead of the old wall socket.
The home construction will affect the WiFi signal throughout the house but, if you were getting acceptable WiFi when your old landline was in use, there is absolutely no reason why this would change when you were converted to DV.
WiFi and DV are completely separate - one does not affect the other.

[licquorice]

My bean sticks put up Saturday 😀😀

[GillyFB]

Maybe we are older (81 & 83) and therefore slower?!  🤔  Good luck with harvest and we only plant Cobra beans now. 

[licquorice]

You're not that much older. Hopefully get a good crop this year now I've muntjac proofed the garden 😃 Not tried Cobra, runners up the sticks and Stanley french dwarf beans.

[GillyFB]

Cobra - also climb up sticks but 'stringless' i.e. just cut diagonally and ready to eat. Good luck with your crop.  Back to Digital tomorrow to get my head around that.

[licquorice]

Did you get chance to try your base station plugged directly into the hub?

That will reduce 2 links in a chain to just one 

By plugging your base station into the adapter, you create 2 DECT links. One from your handset to the base station and then another from the adapter to the hub.