Landline phone is not in same room as router

[Rainbow3]

Thank you. I have looked at some of the FAQ's but obviously missed ones relating to my query.

[Rainbow3]

Many thanks I've got one of those! 

[ljm]

Nice and clear explanation from you thanks Pete L71. which will surely help many as well as OP. 🙂👍

[wkirkman]

Alternative is also that you pair the Dect phones with the SH2 and use the original base station only as a charging station.

SH2 is using standard DECT and with all DECT phones, as far as I am aware, can be paired with any other base station (including SH2).

I did try this not long back and it worked just fine.

You just remove the ‘phone’ cable from the base and discard it as it won’t need to be plugged into anything if your cordless phone is paired with the SH2.

I don’t see this option talked about much but as I said, I did test it and it worked.

[rbz5416]

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@wkirkmanwrote:

Alternative is also that you pair the Dect phones with the SH2...

I don’t see this option talked about much but as I said, I did test it and it worked.

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The GAP (Generic Access Profile) will probably work to make/receive calls may not support any other functions, including contacts.

[wkirkman]

Which would put it on par with plugging it into the back of the SH2, except the OP can’t do that so DECT pairing would be a viable alternative.

The HD handsets from BT meant for this are best obviously. I have these which enable all features.

[rbz5416]

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@wkirkmanwrote:
Which would put it on par with plugging it into the back of the SH2

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Not really as that would use the contacts list stored in the base station, whereas pairing direct to the SH2 would lose that.  Likely also to lose other typical DECT facilities like call transfer & call blocking.

[wkirkman]

Yeah I was thinking as a single handset not a bunch of handsets.

[caravanj]

We get connected to BT full fibre + digital voice in a couple of weeks.

The master socket is in an understairs cupboard & the house has a telephone socket in most of the rooms.

We do, however, use 5 DECT phones & the base station is connected to the hall socket.

But we also have a couple of corded phones for the odd occasion when we get the "your call is important to us, we will answer it as soon as possible--BEEP-- you are number125 in the queue" message & we know that the cordless phone battery won't last that long.

It won't be an easy job for the OR engineer to install the ONT where the master socket is so I'm going to make it a very easy job for him / her by having the ONT located on the wall where the fibre cable will enter the house from the external ducting used by our current copper line which will be adjacent to a couple of power sockets.

In return I'll ask him / her to leave the master socket in situ & then use a telephone patch cord to connect the router to the master socket which will then feed all the telephone sockets which will leave the base station & corded phones in situ.

Anyway, that's my plan.