Bob Eager wrote:

There are extension sockets throughout the house, including the attic
(in case I am up there tending servers etc. and the phone rings),
small rooms, garage, detached workshop, cabin, shed and external in
the garden.

Exactly...at least one extension in each room (living room has three, to
allow for reconfiguration of the room, and provision of line for Sky box
if ever needed.

I'm completely baffled by this.
Do you both have shares in a CAT6 company?
If you have that many extension points,
presumably you have to carry the phone around with you, and plug it in?
(You surely don't have 3 phones in the living-room?)

Did it not occur to you when you were digging up the garden
to put in a telephone cable, that there is a simpler way?


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