Now that Cablecom's Digital Phone offers free calls to land-lines in Switzerland 'for ever' (even if the cancellation is 12 months) it looks more viable.

I have three phones: two downstairs in different rooms and one upstairs. I have no less than six cable sockets and about the same amount of PTT phone sockets. But as I see it CC's Digital Phone needs a modem for each phone to maintain my present set up.

I put this top a rather giggly Cablecom sales woman, who could only advise me that this was 'kien problaim'. She said it was on cablecom.ch- After 45 minutes going round in circles on their site, I'm blowed if I can see anywhere that shows more than one phone, except from the same modem.

Anyone know if CC supply a modem for each extension? Or is there another was round this? I only want one line and three extensions and no cable salad running from room to room and up the stairs...

Ms. Lumley, I think the cablecom sales lady may have misunderstood what you meant. The cable modem acts as a terminal point to convert internet traffic into voice and for you to be able to get your phones to work in 3 different locations having 1 number means you'll need to have a phone system that can take that 1 phone signal and broadcast through the built-in extension for those 3 said phones. You can find these at electronics or office supply shops (at least in the UK) often made by Siemens or Panasonic etc.

I suspect, however, that this isn't the answer you wanted because it means having to spend money to replace perfectly good phones! There may be another way around this but can't think of it at the moment.

What does the CC box look like? ie. Does it provide a standard PTT socket into which you can plug a regular phone?

In that case, you just run three phones in parallel with a single socket at the end. The same sort of setup as if you had a standard voice line delivered to a master socket and then split out to the various rooms.

There might be a problem with the amount of power that the IP phone adaptor puts out to ring them, though. I know that each device has what's known as a REN (Ringer Equivalent Number) and in the UK at least, your total load of RENs can only add up to 4 on a BT line. Generally, a phone will have a REN of '1'. Apparently you can get powered REN boosters to get around this.

I have my cablecom RJ11 connected into my house phone line (RJ11-RJ11 cable). This works as I DON'T have the Swisscom connection coming into the house connected to it.

AbFab, I've given you your own thread mate. Feel free to modify the subject - it's my best-guess.

Answering everyone:

The Cablecom 'box' is the internet cable modem, which will take up to 2 phone lines in two US style sockets.

Lob: You mean connect the phone socket of the modem to the SWossCom/PTT phone socket with an RJ11 cable and use the existing Swisscom phone circuit and sockets for the Digital Phone? Does Swisscom need physically disconnecting in the cellar or will the fact there is no Swisscom number in use be enough? But this what CC say a RJ11 is



- which doesn't seem to be the right thing...

you will still have a live swisscom connection with current - I'd disconnect it. Then take the phone #1 connection on the cable modem and use a cable to connect into the wall (RJ11 is the jack on the right side of your picture there).

Second line, if you have it, will be "separate"

I have the same problem.
AbFab - The Cablecom advice on this is here:

https://service.cablecom.ch/scp/cons...115#faq_beginn

I have a patch panel in my cellar. If I disconnect my Swisscom line and patch in my cablecom line it no longer works. Cablecom works fine if I connect the phone directly. Any suggestions?