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Old 28-02-2008, 00:02
babinaba
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This might be a completely stupid question, but is it possible to use the home hub phone on it's own without having to use the home hub as my router (I have the phone line connected to the home hub and it's connect to the power line but I don't want to use it for the internet).

Ta and sorry for being thick!!!
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Old 28-02-2008, 12:27
chrisjr
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You can make landline calls on a Home Hub phone if the hub is plugged into a working phone line. You just dial 5 first to make it dial out over the landline.

But if the Home Hub is connected to the phone line then you will not be able to use any other ADSL device on the same line. So you could not go out and buy a Netgear router/modem (to pluck a manufacturer out of the air), and plug that into the same phone line as your Home Hub.

You can only have a single modem on the line at a time otherwise they fight each other for control and probably both end up losing connection!

Having said that. If you buy an adapter plug that converts the RJ11 plug on the end of the Home Hub lead to a standard BT phone plug and plug it into the phone socket on a microfilter rather than the normal modem socket that might work.

The phone socket on a microfilter removes the broadband signal so plugging the hub into that will make the modem in the hub think there is no ADSL service on the line. That might allow you to plug another modem/router into the same line. But it could also stop the Home Hub working properly as well. Meaning you could not even dial 5 to make calls over the land line. Or it could just stop both devices working!

It might be safer all round if you just want the cordless phone capability of the hub to buy a standalone DECT phone. And probably forget about trying to use the hub. Not sure though if the hub handset can pair with another DECT base station. You can certainly pair DECT phones with the Hub. That would let you use the hub's handset, reducing the hub to a rather expensive battery charger
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