Power cut!

[chrisjp]

"But who knows...maybe in time these phones will have their own power and won't need back up batteries. If fibre optics are to be used more and more maybe they will too improve in time and also power the phones as well as supply the broadband for them. That's for the future."

I'm afraid that there is absolutely no way for fibre optics to transmit electricity to any phone.
The "always on" nature of the old analogue phones was actually backed up by a bank of batteries at the exchange, so the phone system has always had a battery backup. Exchanges are being phased out as FTTP takes over, so the battery backup, if you think it is needed, now has to be in the home.

[truCido]

The battery backup in the exchange also doesn't actually last that long!

[licquorice]

Long enough for the generator to fire up.

[Koala456]

I don't think DV has been properly thought through. Where am I supposed to plug it in? The mains socket is not near my BT socket and with the television and dvd player plugged into it, leaves no room for DV?

Are whoever thought up this Digital Voice system living in the real world? 

[gg30340]

Your moans won't stop the change so you would be better to learn about it.

If you read the instructions it will show you that you plug the phone into the rear of the BT Smarthub2

Digital Voice | Digital Home Phone | BT

Have a read of the FAQ provided and read about it in the forum as well as do an Internet search about it and try and learn about it instead of just moaning about it. 

Solved: Digital Voice FAQs - BT Community

[licquorice]

What do you mean ' where do you plug it in'. You don't plug DV in anywhere, it is just another data stream on the internet.

You can plug any existing phone or cordless base station into the green socket at the rear of the hub.

You can use a Digital Voice handset anywhere you like, it just connects to the built in DECT base station in the hub. The charging cradle can be plugged into any power socket.

The Digital Voice adapter can be plugged into any mains socket and a corded phone plugged into it. It just becomes a portable phone socket.

If you mean where do you plug the ONT in, that is entirely separate to DV, it is the modem required to convert the optical fibre signal to an electrical signal. Just use a multi-way strip if you don't have enough sockets.

[iniltous]

DV (Digital Voice)  , as already stated doesn’t need anything extra plugging into the mains it’s delivered from the router that is already connected to the mains , so what on earth are you going on about ? ,

Presumably you already have broadband, so your router is already connected to the mains ….you connect your phone (the one you already own ) into the router phone socket, that’s where , with DV , you are supposed to ‘plug it in ‘ , if your phone is currently connected to a phone socket and your router is connected to a different phone socket but there isn’t another mains outlet nearby (and you need a mains outlet because your phone is mains powered ) you have defeated your own initial argument.

Your ‘complaint’ started with you stating that with you suffering a power cut,  at least you could still make a call,  because you are not on yet on DV and  still on PSTN , how did you do that with a mains powered phone during a power cut ?

So what is it ….is your own phone mains powered or not , if it is , a power outage stops you making a call irrespective of being on PSTN or DV ,  making your original comment untruthful, if your phone is a ‘ordinary’ unpowered , corded phone , the location of the 240v  sockets and not having a spare one near the router  is irrelevant, you plug the phone cord of your corded phone into the router phone socket  instead of a phone socket on the wall.

If your initial comment was true ( that you made a call during the power cut ) , it obviously must be a regular corded phone , so what has the location of your power outlets got to do with DV and your situation ?  , that’s a complete irrelevance , your current phone doesn’t need a power socket does it ?, if it does how did you make the call to the power company during the power cut

 I’m sure you agree , something doesn’t add up ……

[pddco]

@Koala456  Okay, it sounds like we’ve said all that we can say about power cuts and such like. Now it seems we’ve moved onto where you’ve physically got the phone and how that could be an issue for DV. 

Is/are the phones  that you normally use to make calls and the one that you used  during a power cut plugged into a phone socket that’s near the hub?

Or is it perhaps that you’ve got your phone in the hall but the broadband hub is somewhere else and not really where you’d like a phone to be?

[WSH]

I think you’re the one not living in the real world, my friend.

At this point in time, nearly 3 million people have been moved to DV so it’s not going to be stopped or reversed.  They’ve made it work, so I’m sure you will.

You have a point about the power cuts, but it’s all been said many times before and there are solutions.  I was converted two years ago, and the Smart Hub 2 is being powered through an extension lead with no problems.  The day to day reality is that everything still works the same as it did before.