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GreyQueen

Afternoon all. Hope everyone is warm and well.

Errmmm, I have a bit of a techy question but am nervous of the techy board so wondered if some wise person on here could assist?

I have broadband and landline with the same company. Am using my router in the wired way, with the router and phone cables coming off the same main phone point with a splitter. My phone is an older-stylee corded answerphone model.

Anyway, haven't got a dial tone. Everything was perfectly ine yestereve but I haven't used it since. Have checked everything is still plugged in (yup) and I have the interweb and have sent email to myself from Yahoo and that's all OK.

I've got my "spare" phone which is a cordless type charging (it didn't work straight out of the box) but am wondering if the fault is likely to be in my phone or on the line?

As some of you may recall I'm a relative noob to having broadband and don't know if it works if your phone line is out? Does the fact that the BB is on mean the line is OK (and thus the physical phone has died)? Or doesn't it work like that?

Thanking you in advance. GQ xx

jpscloud

Hi GQ if you have BB working then I think it means your line is good. The problem could be with the splitter or the phone - I'd start with reseating the splitter (take it out and put it back), then if that doesn't help, switch them over and see if phone works but BB doesn't, then try a different phone. That's the extent of my technical knowhow so any further investigations will require someone savvier!

Edit: If it's not the splitter it might also be the cable coming from the splitter to the phone, is there any damage to that?

short_bird

GQ: And I've PM'd you with the things that sound really arcane and stupid but do work:D

GreyQueen

jpscloud wrote: »

Hi GQ if you have BB working then I think it means your line is good. The problem could be with the splitter or the phone - I'd start with reseating the splitter (take it out and put it back), then if that doesn't help, switch them over and see if phone works but BB doesn't, then try a different phone. That's the extent of my technical knowhow so any further investigations will require someone savvier!

Edit: If it's not the splitter it might also be the cable coming from the splitter to the phone, is there any damage to that?

:j You're a freaking genius! TY so much.

I have the splitter off the main phone point, then the phone cable goes into a powerstrip and another phone cable goes out to the physical phone. This apparent eccentricity was the way the Computer Wizard had to navigate around the limitations of plug sockets in my gaff.

Anyroad, the splitter holding the phone cable had attachments which aren't the same so couldn't swop them but just unplugged the spitter-powerstrip phone cable from the powerstrip and re-plugged and now I have dial tone!!!!!!!

Oh thankfulness. I was beginning to go into Stress Bunny mode. This is like the Duracell bunny but less amusing, btw.:p

7_week_wonder

Afternoon all,
Hugs to everyone who needs them - kidcat it sounds like you are having it a bit tough at the moment. Softstuff, I hope everything goes as smoothly as it can for you an your mum on Tuesday. I'm very impressed with your new get up and go for 2013: long may it continue!

Please can I have a bit of a hug/talking to as I'm feeling a bit down in the dumps. We're just back from taking mum home after her being here for a fortnight. She seems to have a bit of a personality change when she goes home and has to be responsible for things. I'm assuming it is just stress/nerves but she has been really quite snippy and actually reduced me to tears this morning (I don't think she knows that though). So it was a bit stressful leaving her, plus we are beginning to think more seriously that at some point in the next few years she may end up living with us, which we will manage but will not be easy. Then we got home to a gas bill which is up 15% on last year. So much for a frugal start to the New Year!

So nothing major, but just a bit of January down in the dumps! Never mind, it's smoked salmon risotto and a quiet night with OH planned for this evening so that should cheer me up.

Have a good evening everyone.

GreyQueen

((((((((((((7WW)))))))))))

Have a dodgy virtual hug on me. :grouphug: I'm sure you're right and your Mum probably didn't realise she'd upset you and certainly didn't intend to. It's likely to be a manifestation of stress.

I was once gutted when my Nan told me quite casually that my cousin was her favourite grand-daughter as she was the firstborn grandchild. And my Nan is a lovely woman and the soul of discretion and had never expressed favouritism before (or since). I'd never tell her in a million years how much that hurt me but she's come to realise in the years since that cousin is a little bovine. Well, cousin would keep demonstrating her unpleasant character and even doting nannies can see these things eventually.

Been nattering with the folks now my landline is working. Extended family inc cats reported to be in fine fettle. It's all good.

nuttyp

Hi everyone, finally home from work. Have finally managed to get OH to agree to budgeting every month together. Since the BR its been my job to pay everything and balance the books. And ive had enough. So when we get paid we will sort out what needs to be paid, and then work out food budget etc. Maybe then we will manage to start saving a bit, as since last summer we only seem to just break even.

I am so tire now, have been feeling out of sort all day but i could quite honestly have a quick nap. Well i now have the mext 10 days off work, so we are takeing our trip. Have little money to go with but i think the look around a new area, charity shope etc will be good.

Take care everyone x

monnagran

Hi all,

Nothing happening much here. Thank goodness. The house is now de-christmassed, I'm slowly getting through letters to those poor souls who fell off my Christmas card list, a vast casserole is made to keep us going for a few days, I've also started a cardigan for Mia (oh, the joy of knitting tiny garments again!) and am resisting the urge to just sit and knit. I've also just finished reading the 5:2 fasting diet on my Kindle and have decided to give it a whirl. I've bought a calorie counting book and intend to make lists of meals under 200 cals and 100 cals for my fasting days. Can't wait to get started but my first fasting day will be Tuesday.

DS and family came this am and we had fun planning Mia's baptism in March and DS and future DIL's wedding in October. The Rev will be officiating at both but is going to need help with the baptism as she is also a godmother. She tried practising asking a question...Do you.....?, then turning round smartly to face the space she had just been standing in and answering herself. Nooooo. Of course I will be a svelte and glamorous grandmother, well, a grandmother certainly.

Fuddle: Stick to your guns, that swine doesn't know who he is tangling with.

GreyQueen: You say you're a noob! I didn't even understand your question. You seemed to use a lot of technical terms for a noob. I'm awed.

x

jamanda

7WW

We are in the process (since Sunday) of clearing our house to enable my parents to move in (I have actually just posted on the benefits board for the first time ever because I don't know if I could get carer's allowance).

I gave my notice in at work this week, so not only am I getting rid of loads of the household stuff, money isn't going to flow very freely either.

Last Sunday, my oh so very proud mother (who wouldn't share a holiday home with 4 beds/2 baths 2 years ago because she didn't believe in sharing homes) broke down and said she couldn't go on (my Dad has Parkinsons and although reasonably mobile she lives on her nerves at the best of times and the strain of watching what he is up to and remembering the times to give him his pills has ground her down) - I said I would pack up work and either go to them every day to help (25 mile round trip) or they could move in with us.

To my astonishment they both grabbed the chance straight away and asked if they could move in. I'm still stunned.

They are now rather different people. I think they had been worrying themselves stupid over how they would manage the house and large garden, even though offers of help had always been turned down "because we can manage thank you). The relief is palpable.

However, we have a spare room and a "front room" which is rarely used, and we are making it over for them. I think it is important that a bit of personal space can be achieved where they can have some of their own bits around them. It might be a different matter if we were all going to be living in a big heap with no get-out room.

GreyQueen

monnagran wrote: »

GreyQueen: You say you're a noob! I didn't even understand your question. You seemed to use a lot of technical terms for a noob. I'm awed.

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You'd be surprised at the depth of my ignorance. I have a pal who I refer to up here as the Computer Wizard who has held my hand though many an IT-related scrape. I make him draw me diagrams if I don't know what's going on (99% of the time this being the case).

Just over a decade ago when I got this computer (my first and only) I went to turn it on and got a black screen with writing all over it instead of Windows.

Rang the Wiz in hysterics. He listened for a moment and said very patiently; "GQ, take the floppy disc out."

I'd left one in the previous time I used it and the poor pooter was apparently trying to find Windows on a floppy which I believe is about the equivalent of trying to find Africa somewhere on the Isle of Wight.:rotfl:Well, I never did it again, did I?! The other mistakes are too numerous to mention. I'll get there in the end.