Landline phone with own router on FTTP

[bruce_miranda]

Just got FTTP and everything is working fine off the VF router. Phone lines are plugged into the VF router, VF router's WiFi is switched off. 3rd party Mesh has been switched to Bridge mode and plugged into the VF's ethernet port.

However I am shocked at how feature poor the VF router is. e.g. There are no Parental controls at all. I know I can get rid of the VF router and plug my own Mesh router into the Openreach ONT, but what about the Landline. 

Are there any 3rd party routers in the market that have a telephone socket at the back to allow the home phone to be plugged in? 

[ryouga]

Sorry for confused post, I am autistic so get confused easily unless things are crystal clear.

Have username and password on my AC88U and just want something to plug the telephone into so family who only have landlines with inclusive minutes can ring, and I prefer landlines to mobiles anyway..

Confused over the simple way of doing this due to how long the thread is, do I cotact live chat and get server details, purchase a device (if so what one) log into it via browser and put in the server details?

Is that it?

[MACH1]

I have just had our broadband setup switched to FTTP.  It has been a total nightmare and still doesn't work. Nobody told me that when we got FTTP our landline would only work if we used the crappy Vodafone router. I am thinking I may cancel the order and revert to the FTTC (while still available) if I am not able to use my own router daisy chained through the supplied unit.

A great example of crapping up a perfectly good phone system - in the name of progress.

[Cynric]

@MACH1  I know that this is little consolation, but within the next few years ALL telephones will be connected over FTTP because the old copper wires are being removed.

[MACH1]

This is exactly why I am so keen to 'Get things right' with the landline now.   I have a pretty good Netgear router, so I am hoping to set up my (current) Vodafone line so that I can use 3rd party kit for my landline so that I am not (necessarily) tied to Vodafone when my contract expires.

[Jayach]

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@MACH1 wrote:

This is exactly why I am so keen to 'Get things right' with the landline now.   I have a pretty good Netgear router, so I am hoping to set up my (current) Vodafone line so that I can use 3rd party kit for my landline so that I am not (necessarily) tied to Vodafone when my contract expires.

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As you appears to have just started an FTTP contract with Vodafone, it will be 2 years before your contract expires.

By then just about everybody will be on VoIP lines, (The PTSN is being switched off at the end of 2025) so I'm sure swapping between VoIP suppliers will be far more commonplace than it is now.

[MACH1]

The Openreach engineer told me that the end 2025 deadline for shutting down the PSTN network has now slipped and is looking like 2027.  As you say, I hope a lot of the glitches that we are seeing will get sorted sooner rather than later so changing ISP is easy without losing landlines.

[Ripshod]

Say 2032 and you'll be a little closer.

[Jayach]

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@MACH1 wrote:
The Openreach engineer told me that the end 2025 deadline for shutting down the PSTN network has now slipped and is looking like 2027. 

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You would expect the Openreach engineer to know better than me, but as far as I know it is "set in stone" for the 31.12.2025.

They have already ceased any new connections to it, (except in exceptional circumstances)

Could they have been referring to the retirement of the last copper lines?

Guess we will find out in a little over 2 years

[MACH1]

I know what you mean, but given the problems so many people have in rural areas getting decent broadband, THAT is going to need to get resolved before the plug can be pulles on all of the PSTN network.

[chesterweirdo]

I bought a Ht801 for about £40. Took a bit of setup but this thread has everything you need. The phone has worked fine since I set it up. 

allows me to use my own router and keep the landline.