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Owning your own home comes with delightful joys every so often. Roof leaks, blocked drains, moth infestations, etc but the latest one was technological.
I'll be working from home two days a week from now and I have to do a couple of hours of conference calls each day (heh, beats actual work) and so I nipped out and bought a cheap corded telephone that has a speakerphone.
Plugged it into the telephone socket in the spare room (which is doubling as my home office), no dial tone.
Plugged 'phone into sockets elsewhere in the flat, dial tone.
Traced the spare room wiring back along the wall and then outside, it's a separate sodding 'phone line (that's currently not in service). I guess some previous owners (who shared the flat) had a second line installed. Le sigh. 10m extension cable will have to do for now.
Annoyingly this is also where I was going to have the BT Infinity stuff installed should Openreach ever get around to upgrading my local cabinet (the "It should be ready in the next 3 months" has been rolling on for almost 3 years now.)