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James Vertigan · 24-06-2004, 12:53

Hello all...

Realised yesterday why I was having problems with the extension nearest the TV - it was "unplugged"!

Now this is probably going to sound very strange and confusing, bu for some strange reason we have two white boxes on the wall in our sitting room, linked under the floorboards and when the lead going into the phone socket furthest away from the TV is unplugged, the one nearer the TV does not work...

And while the connection is plugged into the socket furthest away from the TV and the phone plugged into the one nearer the TV, the phone does not seem to disconnect...

Would this prove to be a problem for the Sky box when it tries to contact Sky to send information, or get information from Sky?

(I think the reason why that line was unplugged was because there seems to be a nasty crackle on the extension - I'm not sure whether this crackle would cause problems for the Sky box, so would I need an NTL engineer to look into why there's a bad crackle - or would that still result in a callout charge?)

24-06-2004, 12:53	#11
James Vertigan cf.member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Acton, West London & North Devon Age: 41 Posts: 69	Re: Extension fault - callout charge?!?! Hello all... Realised yesterday why I was having problems with the extension nearest the TV - it was "unplugged"! Now this is probably going to sound very strange and confusing, bu for some strange reason we have two white boxes on the wall in our sitting room, linked under the floorboards and when the lead going into the phone socket furthest away from the TV is unplugged, the one nearer the TV does not work... And while the connection is plugged into the socket furthest away from the TV and the phone plugged into the one nearer the TV, the phone does not seem to disconnect... Would this prove to be a problem for the Sky box when it tries to contact Sky to send information, or get information from Sky? (I think the reason why that line was unplugged was because there seems to be a nasty crackle on the extension - I'm not sure whether this crackle would cause problems for the Sky box, so would I need an NTL engineer to look into why there's a bad crackle - or would that still result in a callout charge?)