Router Problem.

[KazMac2]

So this is my problem. Customer service told me to get a new phone connection to go in the Router. I did, it's the same as the old one I already had. It just doesn't fit in this space. Please can anyone explain as I only went live on Friday and still can't use my landline 🤨😢

[FLC]

What's the back story, why were you told to get a new cable?

The cable you've pictured is an RJ11 DSL cable rather than a phone cable. I'm not aware of any UK phones that don't have the required BT connector, or at least an adapter from RJ1 to BT. So what phone do you have & where was it plugged in previously? I'd have thought it was plugged into a BT socket & you just needed to remove that & plug it into the Hub.

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

@KazMac2 

The voice connection is the BT jack socket marked UK with a phone symbol.  The purple RJ11 is for copper broadband and cannot connect to a telephone handset.

[KazMac2]

So what are you saying? I've got Fibre Broadband so have the new VOIP calls, which I know all about. The Customer Service woman told me to plug it in the one marked UK phone 📞, which doesn't fit. That's what I keep saying. 

[KazMac2]

I just unplugged the cable out of the back of my old Vodafone Router. I didn't need to unplug it out of the Openreach socket on the wall. So all I needed to do is just plug it into my new Sky Hub or Router. Like I've been saying, it different than the Vodafone one and it doesn't fit🧐🤨

[FLC]

Ah, so you already had VOIP with Vodafone.

So presumably you replaced the original phone cable when Vodafone was installed, Do you no longer have that?

[FLC]

Or possibly your phone cable originally had one of these:

[FLC]

Not being able to edit is a pain.

@KazMac2 

It's far mor elikely that when you first installed Vodafone that you added the opposite adapter to your phone cable. This is borne out here:

So all you should need to do is remove that adapter & plug the BT plug into the Sky router.