xpod
13-01-2008, 19:01
Evening all,if anyone can shed some light on this one i`d sure appreciate it.:)
Dont really know anything about the Phones but we have the TV,Landline Phone and of course Broadband with Virgin....which i do know a little more about,now:)
We have one box for the phone in the living room though and a completely separate one(as i just today discovered) in the kitchen,which feeds a line to our bedroom.
Her Father in Law turned up at the door at Luchtime today saying he`d been trying to get through to us for about 4 hours.
Why he`d never called any of the mobiles i still dont know either??
When we subsequently picked the phones up to see what was happening though all we could hear was the noise of children playing in the background......like one of our own phones were off the hook and we were just hearing our own kids.
But it turned out not to be that at all.
We ended up calling ourseves from a mobile,only to be put right onto VM voicemail.
I was already pretty stumped by this time but it got worse.
I picked up the main living room phone and ...as silly as it seemed,tried calling out....over the children we were still hearing in the background.
I of course failed,as you`d expect.I mean there was`nt even a dialing tone(our girls were all like quiet little mice by this point)
I then tried the very same from the kitchen phone ....over the noisy kids still but this time i was able to dial out, over the top of them somehow.I could`nt hear any dialing tone,or beeps as i dialed out but suddenly i heard the ringing,over the kids as it were.
I somehow got through to Virgin(with noisy kids crossed line(?) in the background) and eventually had some nice Sveedish sounding chap at faults try calling us back himself.....ya.....nay:)
I made sure he took our mobile number and indeed,he called us back on the mobile about 5 mins later.He`d run some tool apparently and had us unplug all the wires etc.There was indeed a fault of some sort,with our 2nd box it seemed,but i would have to call CS back to have an engineer booked for it.
I did all that and hung back up,then out of sheer curiosity i tried plugging the 2nd line back in....which promptly decided to dial 999 for me:shocked:
I quickly explained & apoligised to the nice lass and hastily pulled that wire back out again.
As it stands we do have the living room box/phone working fine but i`m waiting for the engineer on that 2nd one now.....as advised:o:
Means a morning off work though,if she`s not working......i`ll need to make sure she is:D
We`ve all had crossed lines before i`m sure but being able to dial out,over the top like that was weird.
Trying to keep my 4 girls....and the wife quiet,at the same time as i was listening was a job in itself but i`m still none the wiser,even though i know it was`nt just them i was hearing.
I`m half expecting our next bill to have some 5 hour call on it somewhere but it was`nt us as nobody had used the Landline phone/s at all this morning.
More a curiosity than a problem i suppose:dunce:
Dont really know anything about the Phones but we have the TV,Landline Phone and of course Broadband with Virgin....which i do know a little more about,now:)
We have one box for the phone in the living room though and a completely separate one(as i just today discovered) in the kitchen,which feeds a line to our bedroom.
Her Father in Law turned up at the door at Luchtime today saying he`d been trying to get through to us for about 4 hours.
Why he`d never called any of the mobiles i still dont know either??
When we subsequently picked the phones up to see what was happening though all we could hear was the noise of children playing in the background......like one of our own phones were off the hook and we were just hearing our own kids.
But it turned out not to be that at all.
We ended up calling ourseves from a mobile,only to be put right onto VM voicemail.
I was already pretty stumped by this time but it got worse.
I picked up the main living room phone and ...as silly as it seemed,tried calling out....over the children we were still hearing in the background.
I of course failed,as you`d expect.I mean there was`nt even a dialing tone(our girls were all like quiet little mice by this point)
I then tried the very same from the kitchen phone ....over the noisy kids still but this time i was able to dial out, over the top of them somehow.I could`nt hear any dialing tone,or beeps as i dialed out but suddenly i heard the ringing,over the kids as it were.
I somehow got through to Virgin(with noisy kids crossed line(?) in the background) and eventually had some nice Sveedish sounding chap at faults try calling us back himself.....ya.....nay:)
I made sure he took our mobile number and indeed,he called us back on the mobile about 5 mins later.He`d run some tool apparently and had us unplug all the wires etc.There was indeed a fault of some sort,with our 2nd box it seemed,but i would have to call CS back to have an engineer booked for it.
I did all that and hung back up,then out of sheer curiosity i tried plugging the 2nd line back in....which promptly decided to dial 999 for me:shocked:
I quickly explained & apoligised to the nice lass and hastily pulled that wire back out again.
As it stands we do have the living room box/phone working fine but i`m waiting for the engineer on that 2nd one now.....as advised:o:
Means a morning off work though,if she`s not working......i`ll need to make sure she is:D
We`ve all had crossed lines before i`m sure but being able to dial out,over the top like that was weird.
Trying to keep my 4 girls....and the wife quiet,at the same time as i was listening was a job in itself but i`m still none the wiser,even though i know it was`nt just them i was hearing.
I`m half expecting our next bill to have some 5 hour call on it somewhere but it was`nt us as nobody had used the Landline phone/s at all this morning.
More a curiosity than a problem i suppose:dunce: