Nothing In Particular

[pre65]

So it's the 4 weeks is it, and then?

Depends on her progress, but going back to her home is but a remote possibility, sad to say.

[Mike H]

Know what you mean. My mum was in and out of various facilities, including hospital, ended up in a care home via Whitmore Way, which would be northeast of Basildon town centre.

[pre65]

Know what you mean. My mum was in and out of various facilities, including hospital, ended up in a care home via Whitmore Way, which would be northeast of Basildon town centre.

Aha, I remember Whitmore way.

In my youth I spent mucho wonga in Nelson and Ford motorbike shop. It later was called Chucks if memory serves ?

[Mike H]

Ah, memories! Yes ditto. A friend used to call them Nelson and Fiddlies, 'fiddle' alluding to exorbitant prices aka daylight robbery. But then if you must have a Honda...

I stopped going in there after the kid behind the counter, who seemed to have perpetual hayfever, even through the winter months, said to me once "When are you going to buy another new bike from us?" (I'd had two.)

[pre65]

I'm spending this week attending an indoor bowls championship in Lincoln, and am billeted at the Poachers inn at Metheringham.

We have a nice mews type flat with two bedrooms behind the pub.

[Mike H]

Very nice too!

[jack]

Anyone here switched from POTS (copper) home phone to VoIP and kept their old number?

[Nick]

My internal POTS phones are now plugged into the BT Modem instead of the filter if that's what you mean. But I suspect you mean a third party SIP's provider.

[jack]

My internal POTS phones are now plugged into the BT Modem instead of the filter if that's what you mean. But I suspect you mean a third party SIP's provider.

Indeed - can't use a BT SmartHub and BT only offer DigitalVoice which is proprietary and must be used with a BT SMartHub2 as the modem/router. Bleugh.

So, 3rd party SIPs it must be...

[Nick]

Remind me again why you cant use a BT Hub?

[jack]

Remind me again why you cant use a BT Hub?

Because it's an Ubiquiti system - The BT hub insists you use their DNS and constrains what you can and cannot do. It's fine for many use cases, but not ours. I believe that the SmartHub3 may allow more flexibility, but it's still ties you into BT. Basically, they want to make you use their managed hub so that their support is easier.

[Tony Moore]

I had the same issue when going to full fibre a couple of years ago. I didn't want to use BT Hub as I have a pfSense and VLANs setup so wanted to keep on using my own system but the BT Hub is required to use their phones and existing phone number.

So I just got my own Voip phones and use 3rd party Voip services, which works way better as I can also have a local phone number in Milwaukee, which costs peanuts. (For family calling to POTs lines)

[jack]

I had the same issue when going to full fibre a couple of years ago. I didn't want to use BT Hub as I have a pfSense and VLANs setup so wanted to keep on using my own system but the BT Hub is required to use their phones and existing phone number.

So I just got my own Voip phones and use 3rd party Voip services, which works way better as I can also have a local phone number in Milwaukee, which costs peanuts. (For family calling to POTs lines)

Who do you use? BT will allow you to port the number BTW...

[Nick]

Because it's an Ubiquiti system

It may be simpler to do what Tony does, but you should be able to just use the BT Hub as a modem, I do the same, and connect to my pfSense box using PPPoE.

[jack]

Because it's an Ubiquiti system

It may be simpler to do what Tony does, but you should be able to just use the BT Hub as a modem, I do the same, and connect to my pfSense box using PPPoE.

When I originally set this up, the SmartHub couldn't do pass-through... and if you think about it, for the DigitalVoice part of it to work it'd have to be routing as well.