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BT (UK) landlines migration to Digital Voice supporedt by Netgear?
I'm just hearing our UK landline will transition to Digital Voice sometime (this year). Support for current phone handset is a direct connection on back of BT router (smarthub2). But they offer a Dig...
Hi, Yes but it's the only way to get your digital landline to work that I have found.
pcbuilder wrote:
Hi, Yes but it's the only way to get your digital landline to work that I have found.
One alternative is to learn to live with "double NAT".
Your BT gives itself the local IP address:
http://192.168.1.254/
When you set up your Netgear router it wants so use http://192.168.1.1 but it may well see that and opt to use the address http://10.0.0.1
You then have two routers.
I currently have that arrangement. (I am in the middle of BT broadband hell.) I do not recommend it, because the rest of the network gets confused.
You can plug everything onto the network from the Netgear device and just leave the BT box sitting there as a modem and a phone connection for Digital Voice.
I have yet to see if the BT hub will let me put it on http://10.0.0.1 and what the consequences might be.
It is a pity that BT is allowed to get away with forcing customers to use it hopeless hardware and does not provide decent instructions on how to use alternative kit.
I found my setup on the BT Community, where there are other alternatives, but they are not the official "party line".
Two routers is not ideal I'm deliberating (as BT are switching our area), meanwhile I'll not let BT proceed with moving me to DV. I've no SH2 so they can switch me when PSTN is turned off in 2025. Meanwhile if nothing else then thinking of options e.g. VOIP service providers (& move my number) which BT offers (for small business!) or try to find what's different between BT DV & std VOIP and if mileage? nb I'm not referring to the BT DV adaptor.
google1901 wrote:
Two routers is not ideal
Agreed.
But BT is going to turn off the wired system one day, and we all need to find alternatives. Preferably something that lets us avoid BT's hardware.
I understand there's several versions of VOIP protocol. However, BT decided to define their own; no doubt protect their monopoly! But if there were another (VOIP phone) supplier able to emulate the BT standard then I could use my Netgear router. Were a 3rd party to provide an adaptor or I'd have purchase their VOIP phone.... I could happily live with that!
So I will start looking, probably Sage nb. I think they manufacture BT SH2.