Telephone Ringback Code?

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

running base stations in parallel off the same phone line appeared to cause problems – at least with pair I tried it did.

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Good morning, all,

As I posted elsewhere this morning about a phone call I received, I thought some of you might be wondering about developments on our fibrephone saga.

We did eventually receive a visit from a Virgin Media technician. I have to write that he did not appear to be on top of the job! He did claim that 'we haven't been trained on phones' so I guess I shouldn't be too hard on the man but I'm not too pleased with his employers. He attacked my extension wiring with his side cutters when the relevant phone socket had screw terminals rather than Krone push-downs. Way back when I installed that extension wiring, I took pains to leave enough slack wire in the wall boxes to cater for any future needs. Little of that slack remains in that box since he supplemented the work of his side cutters with enthusiastic use of his Krone tool – some of you will know that the Krone tool incorporates a scissor cutter to remove any 'unwanted' wire after insertion into the IDC connector.

He eventually left us with a functional phone system after a mid-visit drama alleging that he had been mislead by a faulty length of cable 'straight off the drum'. Full marks for histrionics!

I mentioned in my earlier posts that the start of the domestic extension wiring and the Virgin 'hub' are at opposite ends of the living room so I knew we were going to have a length of cable linking the two, meandering across the hearth en-route; good job we don't have an open fire!

Whatever our visitor actually did to get us a working system is, so far, hidden behind a potted plant – I haven't had the courage to investigate it yet!

Those who wrote that our problem was caused by the need for a master socket with a ringing capacitor were correct. Our visiting technician must have added one but as yet I don't know where it is.

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

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