As far as I know there is only one phone line into our house but it seems the previous owner was running a small call centre in the box room as there are extension sockets all over the house. So far I’ve found 7 extension sockets (including 4 in one room, why?).

We have no need for any of these since we live in the 21st century and have a pair of dect cordless phones on the main BT socket as it enters the house. But we are constantly having issues with our boardband and it cutting out. BT say there is nothing wrong with the line or the router.

So will the weird set up in the house be affecting things?

Mossad safehouse. Or a phone sex hotline.

BT say there is nothing wrong with the line or the router.

BT said same here but turned out problem was at junction box down the road

easy enough to disconnect them. 5 mins with a screwdriver at the main socket.

We had exactly the same problem as you and it was affecting our internet as well. We insisted that BT should come and check the line so they sent several letters threatening to charge us if the fault turned out to be with our equipment. We took the risk and sure enough, the engineer detected straight away that our line was receiving interference from our neighbour’s line, probably due to damp in the street junction box.

The service improved immediately but has now got worse again, but they did replace the distribution pole last week so gawd knows what’s happening.

BT have to get signal into your house safely and securely. Get the main input point checked. If its OK then you know its inside your house. If its not then you know its outside your house (and therefore BT’s problem, regardless of your provider)

We had exactly the same problem as you and it was affecting our internet as well. We insisted that BT should come and check the line so they sent several letters threatening to charge us if the fault turned out to be with our equipment.

I had this.
My parents had this just last week. They did all the stuff BT suggested, even bought a new phone. Eventually persuaded BT to come out even with threat of payment, lo and behold before an engineer could arrive a ‘line fault’ had been fixed and all back working!

Just keep on lodging complaints with BT.

I know a Guy who started a Sex Chat Line in his house 15 years ago, you know when calls were £3.5 per min etc.etc.

He ended up with knocking the spare bedroom wall down into his main bedroom and employing his wife, daughter, Aunt to help out on the lines.. Had nearly 20 girls in there at one point, then he moved to an office..

Made a bloody fortune in very few years, total sucess, retired at 35 now playing around on boats..

Git 😆

So will the weird set up in the house be affecting things?

Could do. Depending how it’s wired, it could work like a big aerial for interference. One way to find out, get’ em ripped out.

employing his wife, daughter, Aunt to help out on the lines..

speechless (and that doesn’t happen often)

his wife, daughter, Aunt to help out on the lines.
retired at 35

Erm, how old was his daughter, FFS????!!? 😯

My thoughts exactly!!!! Shocking

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Made a bloody fortune in very few years, total sucess, retired at 35 now playing around on boats..

Git 😆

😆 Nothing wrong with making fortune from talking on phone.

Take the two screws off the faceplate of the master socket, and plug your router into the test socket underneath – it’s isolated from all the wiring on “your” side of the socket (extensions, etc).

If you’ve still got a fault, call BT. If it works fine, tidy up (or remove) your extension wiring.

His daughter was 15 turning 16 IIRC… 😯 he said he started it because he was totally broke, I knew him then and can verify this he even sold his cooker to buy more phones/desks. He’d had enough of working so placed an ad in the local paper first, cost him £13 for a month, he reckoned he made nearly £1k out of that, it went from there.
His wife was pretty open to it and actually used to sub her nursing shifts and his Aunt was a Bar Manager in a pub so both had time to spare in between shifts.
BT weren’t bothered by the amount of lines going into the property, but if you went upstairs to the loo you could see wires everywhere, bit mad TBH.
Anyway as it took off he ended up moving to an office (couple of years later) rent cost him £4k a year!! Then advertised he needed women to “man” the phones and was inundated with bored stay at home wife’s and single divorcees and a few Grannies who wanted to sub their pension.
Within a couple of years he’d paid off his mortgage, bought a new home and car and started to pay us all back for the beers he’d skunked off us in times past. He used to advertise in the Red Tops, made a fortune out of them 😆
He sold the business once the internet started to take hold, just before though and made £3.8m out off the deal.

He’s not into porn, but just wanted to get out of a rut and before fingers get pointed he’d married his childhood sweetheart who he got pregnant at school (his wife, hence the young daughter)

He’s got a very nice 50ft cruiser/racer moored not far from me…

Git 😆

Brilliant. Love inspiring stories like that.