The free DV-Adapter is alive and well, living chez-moi. On the strength of the freebie, I've celebrated by purchasing the cheaper dedicated DV-phone, at a discount, under one of the nominated schemes.
Does the DV-Adapter function through your premises electricity supply ? If anyone liberates your DV-Adapter by stealth, will it work in any premises on the same electricity-phase, with their phone plugged in ?
@TimCurtiswrote:The DV-Adapter is a DECT device like most non-wired home phones.
OK, the signal goes over the airwaves, not through the wires.
@COMPANY-PENSIONERwrote:Essentials DV-Phone arrived on queue.
5-mins to get it up and running. Data download 20-mins. A well appointed toy for £20. It's going to take a while to punt through all the stuff that'll give me a good bit of hands-on. Dial tone, OK, rings out, OK; that'll do for starters.
I haven't found a route to 'Checking for Updates', if there's one at all ? Anyone !
@COMPANY-PENSIONERwrote:
@COMPANY-PENSIONERwrote:Essentials DV-Phone arrived on queue.
5-mins to get it up and running. Data download 20-mins. A well appointed toy for £20. It's going to take a while to punt through all the stuff that'll give me a good bit of hands-on. Dial tone, OK, rings out, OK; that'll do for starters.
I haven't found a route to 'Checking for Updates', if there's one at all ? Anyone
Essentials DV-Handset. 'Checking for Updates', lives at:-
Menu - Settings - Product Info - Update Software.
Charge it up for 16-hours ? What's wrong with replacing the existing batteries, with a set of a fully charged equivalent ?
I took the DV-Handset out shopping; to see how far the dial-tone would last. Less than 75-metres; I'd put it around 175-feet in the concrete jungle. It certainly didn't work in a shop, a quarter of a mile away.
UPS are readily available at electrical distributors. They're around £80-inc upwards, to silly money; it all depends on the length of a power-outage ? If you want to run a kettle, a toaster, and a washing machine off UPS; they're massive big bucks. Little bitty milliampere fat plugs, run on the cheaper end of the price spectrum.
... and to a close.
Officially complaining, best, an indeterminate beano. The best expectations are ¦ 0-0 DRAW.
DV-Handset, an excellent toy. Broadband running as description. No more to add.
