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5 hours ago
5 hours ago
Fair enough, it's not compulsory. But from the way you describe it you have a multi cordless phone set up and that would have carried on working fine if you had VoIP installed. The bit about "...8-10 years, when bt went digital, and then a small unit would be plugged into the existing phone sockets, the phone would then be plugged into that and all would be fine..." is just rubbish, frankly.
5 hours ago
@computerman1, see also my reply to your post before Christmas, where I explained about the phones:
https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Email/router-upgrade/td-p/3086541
5 hours ago
You can only have one phone that plugs in at the back of the router [so it would have to be the base one, for you still to be able to make use of the related phones].
You can't use the old extensions to other rooms etc that went with the old copper BT lines, @computerman1.