we seem to have a problem with our phone,in the first box terminals 2
and 5 have the blue and white wires and terminal 3 has orange,then we
have a splitter thingy plugged in which one bit goes to broadband and
other bit is phone or in our case fax answerphone,the broadband is
fine,we get incoming calls ok but when we lift handset we get a
dialing tone with gaps,if we dial a number a voice says "number not
recognised",i have a sneaky feeling it is our answerphone thats
sulking,we have had it since the old king died,it's a panasonic kx
f2700 can some kind person help?many tia

bob wrote:
we seem to have a problem with our phone,in the first box terminals 2
and 5 have the blue and white wires and terminal 3 has orange,then we
have a splitter thingy plugged in which one bit goes to broadband and
other bit is phone or in our case fax answerphone,the broadband is
fine,we get incoming calls ok but when we lift handset we get a
dialing tone with gaps,if we dial a number a voice says "number not
recognised",i have a sneaky feeling it is our answerphone thats
sulking,we have had it since the old king died,it's a panasonic kx
f2700 can some kind person help?many tia
borrow an ordinary hone from next door and try it with that.

[g]

george [dicegeorge] wrote:
bob wrote:
we seem to have a problem with our phone,in the first box terminals 2
and 5 have the blue and white wires and terminal 3 has orange,then we
have a splitter thingy plugged in which one bit goes to broadband and
other bit is phone or in our case fax answerphone,the broadband is
fine,we get incoming calls ok but when we lift handset we get a
dialing tone with gaps,if we dial a number a voice says "number not
recognised",i have a sneaky feeling it is our answerphone thats
sulking,we have had it since the old king died,it's a panasonic kx
f2700 can some kind person help?many tia
borrow an ordinary Phone from next door and try it with that.

[g]

And while your in at your neighbours, ask them for a full stop to help with
the problem. Hopefully they will have one lying around. They tend to break
up the signal a bit. They might offer you a comma, but there's quite a lot
of them around, especially in some messages...... ;-))

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:29:57 -0000, SantaUK wrote:

And while your in at your neighbours, ask them for a full stop to help with
the problem. Hopefully they will have one lying around. They tend to break
up the signal a bit. They might offer you a comma, but there's quite a lot
of them around, especially in some messages...... ;-))

Your local grocer might have some spare punctuation marks that would lower
themselves to become commas.
--
Peter.
2x4 - thick plank; 4x4 - two of 'em.

george [dicegeorge] wrote:
bob wrote:
we seem to have a problem with our phone,in the first box terminals 2
and 5 have the blue and white wires and terminal 3 has orange,then we
have a splitter thingy plugged in which one bit goes to broadband and
other bit is phone or in our case fax answerphone,the broadband is
fine,we get incoming calls ok but when we lift handset we get a
dialing tone with gaps,if we dial a number a voice says "number not
recognised",i have a sneaky feeling it is our answerphone thats
sulking,we have had it since the old king died,it's a panasonic kx
f2700 can some kind person help?many tia
borrow an ordinary hone from next door and try it with that.


wouldn't an angle grinder be as good as a hone?


[g]

On 22/03/2010 14:16, bob wrote:
we seem to have a problem with our phone,in the first box terminals 2
and 5 have the blue and white wires and terminal 3 has orange,then we
have a splitter thingy plugged in which one bit goes to broadband and
other bit is phone or in our case fax answerphone,the broadband is
fine,we get incoming calls ok but when we lift handset we get a
dialing tone with gaps,if we dial a number a voice says "number not
recognised",i have a sneaky feeling it is our answerphone thats
sulking,we have had it since the old king died,it's a panasonic kx
f2700 can some kind person help?many tia

Isn't an interrupted dial tone a 'message waiting' indicator, or
something like that?

Have you got some kind of answering-machine service set up with BT, and
it's telling you to call in and retrieve the message?

--
Ron

On 22 Mar, 14:16, bob wrote:
we seem to have a problem with our phone,in the first box terminals 2
and 5 have the blue and white wires and terminal 3 has orange,then we
have a splitter thingy plugged in which one bit goes to broadband and
other bit is phone or in our case fax answerphone,the broadband is
fine,we get incoming calls ok but when we lift handset we get a
dialing tone with gaps,if we dial a number a voice says "number not
recognised",i have a sneaky feeling it is our answerphone thats
sulking,we have had it since the old king died,it's a panasonic kx
f2700 can some kind person help?many tia

dial 1571 andcheck if you have a message waitiing on the bt callminder