On Oct 10, 11:24 pm, Dave wrote:
We have a BT 3505 digital 3 phone system. The master phone is in the
dining room, a slave phone is in the lounge and the third one is in our
bedroom. (Until recently, we have both been on call 24/7)

The BT telephone cable terminated under the stairs and I ran an
extension to our old phone around the floor, hidden by the carpets.
Due to various changes to the flooring, I am unable to do the same again.

No problem thought I, I'll run it around the ceiling where the eye does
not often travel. In the mean time I slung up a 10 M. extension over the
doors till I could get a round tuit. The other day, I bought a 20 M
extension because I couldn't source a 15 M one. The total wire length
would have been about 10 to 12 M.

Now comes my problem.
After drilling a hole in the wall and passing the plug towards BT's
socket, I pinned it up to run along the ceiling to the socket in the
lounge that shares the internet router and the master digi phone. I used
my mobile to test the line. All was well.

I woke this morning to find a note from my wife, saying that the house
phone was giving the message that the number called was not recognized.



Surely if you get "number not recognised" (rather than engaged) that's
telling you the exchange is not even trying to connect you the house
becuase it does not recognise the number yo uhave dialled. maybe it
was a temporary blip with the exchange which happened to get fixed as
you changed back to the old cable.

Robert