They all once knew how to transfer a phone call to another phone, but we’ve since forgot how to do it. In built answer phone (WHY?) and functions we all have no idea how to intuitively use. What’s worse is that the Philips digital phone actually just drops the call sometimes. Digital is supposed to be better, right? No it is actually worse than the old Siemens analogue cordless. Sadly since my parents are bordering on deaf, they didn’t initially notice how poor the sound quality is. So my father buys a 3 handset DECT 535 Trio pack from Philips. About the normal phones, well only one socket works now. More splitters?!įinally my father had the sense to unplug all the phones from the network and finally the broadband modem maintained the connection. What’s worse is that the other phone sockets in the house aren’t suitable for use, due to the scream of broadband on them. Once set up with all the PPPoA auth bullshit and other odd titchy settings, the broadband modem would still keep dropping the connection. I had to ask for some local member of my Linux User Group to help my parents set it up. I ordered the modem and ISP package with and hoped my parents could set it up. We have a great Siemens cordless phone for talking around the house, as well as other phones, slow pitiful Internet and a bit of complexity.įinally early in 2006 we can get Broadband! Whoop pee! Enter into a new era of even more complexity. Now things get a bit more complex:Įventually we moved our mobile, international and ISP to Onetel, hoping for some order and convenience whilst managing our bills. One day when we learnt we could have cheaper local calls which was still amounting to quite a fee with BT, we switched to Onetel. Our signal was weak and it would tend to drop carrier every so often to my frustrationĪnyway, I lived with it, like many other people had to do.Is was inconvenient, if not antisocial (block incoming calls, parents can’t make calls).Our remoteness and our home phone network showed problems then. Since broadband was not an option 10 years ago, I went for 56k dialup. We discovered we could make cheaper foreign calls via competitive international carriers and everything was tolerable. Once upon a time, things were simple albeit expensive with just our BT line. A history of the unsatisfactory nature of my parent’s home phone network.
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