Broadband only required after Vodafone changeover to Digital.

Kat7774

I don't use a home phone, but since the vodafone changeover I can't get my broadband connected! What should the connections in/out of my router look like if I'm not using a home phone?

Ayr_Rage

If you have full fibre to the property then the cable from the network termination point on the wall should go into the (normally red) WAN socket on the back of the router.

Only that and the power supply need to be connected for the router to provide WiFi.

If you have devices that use cables they should be connected to the (normally yellow) LAN sockets.

oldernonethewiser

What was involved in the "Vodafone changeover"?

JSmithy45AD

oldernonethewiser said:

What was involved in the "Vodafone changeover"?

I presume they've just moved supplier but for broadband only with no phone line. It's a confusing post really because any new supplier will include simple instructions with the new router.

Kat7774

My VF router used to have a cable from phone wall socket into red internet port and a power plug. Vodafone changed over to digital voice and my broadband signal went. The Instructions said to unplug phone from the wall, and using their adapter, plug it straight into the router. I take it that this wall socket is now useless. I don’t use a landline so now i just have the power plugged into the router nothing is plugged into the wall. My feeling is something is missing, should I have gotten a new router? 😳

Kat7774

ps I don’t have any other socket for anything to do with internet or VF. 

littleboo

OK, if you have a copper based broadband product, where you have a router that plugs into a "BT" phone socket, and if all Vodafone have done is move the phone service, that you don't use, to Digital, then your router should still be connected to the "BT" phone socket as before nad the broadband should still work. If you have been moved from a copper based broadband product to full fibre, then things are different.
Have you spoken to Vodafone?

iniltous

You unplug the phone from the wall socket , not the router , the phone instrument moves from the wall socket to the socket on the router for those that are keeping telephony .
It seems like you have disconnected the router from the ‘line’ completely, if that’s the mistake you have made ,you need to  plug the router back in to the wall socket either directly if it’s the appropriate type of master socket or via a filter if it’s not  ( its the same as it was anyway, you put it back as it was minus a phone instrument ) 

EnPointe

Kat7774 said:

My VF router used to have a cable from phone wall socket into red internet port and a power plug. Vodafone changed over to digital voice and my broadband signal went. The Instructions said to unplug phone from the wall, and using their adapter, plug it straight into the router. I take it that this wall socket is now useless. I don’t use a landline so now i just have the power plugged into the router nothing is plugged into the wall. My feeling is something is missing, should I have gotten a new router? 😳

yes  what is missing is  that your router  needs to remain plugged into the the NTE5 on the wall. 

however  your phone  needs to be plugged into the telephony socket on the router not onto any other socket on the wall