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post Nov 21 2024, 01:43 AM, updated 2y ago

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Basically the house phone of my grandparents house recently went down. Unifi told me must upgrade to wireless already because the cables around the area are in "critical condition". Ok lor I agreed to the upgrade thinking they would just change it to the wireless fiber type. Their customer service even told me this is free of charge and there will be no price increase. Somehow during today's installation visit, a wifi router was installed along with the cordless phone. I dont want the wifi because the house only got old people, they usually only use the house phone. Nowadays house phone must have wifi router only then house phone can work ke? Very confused. I cannot help much physically because I dont live in their area haih
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post Nov 21 2024, 07:31 AM

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Is the cable to the house fiber? If yes, then probably Unifi package with internet you think they just install fiber foc? Phone also cannot directly use fiber...need to connect to the fiber termination unit
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post Nov 21 2024, 08:36 AM

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QUOTE(icedmochatiny @ Nov 21 2024, 01:43 AM)
Basically the house phone of my grandparents house recently went down. Unifi told me must upgrade to wireless already because the cables around the area are in "critical condition". Ok lor I agreed to the upgrade thinking they would just change it to the wireless fiber type. Their customer service even told me this is free of charge and there will be no price increase. Somehow during today's installation visit, a wifi router was installed along with the cordless phone. I dont want the wifi because the house only got old people, they usually only use the house phone. Nowadays house phone must have wifi router only then house phone can work ke? Very confused. I cannot help much physically because I dont live in their area haih
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Did you get this?
https://www.nanominds.cc/whp-s20.html

This is their wireless home phone thing
they dont want to maintain the old physical copper lines anymore

this is a 4g router with wifi disabled, you cannot use it to connect to the internet
the antennas you see are for the 4g signal

it is simply just an adapter to connect the old home phone up to 4g wireless for calls

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post Nov 21 2024, 10:03 AM

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QUOTE(wchinwai @ Nov 21 2024, 07:31 AM)
Is the cable to the house fiber? If yes, then probably Unifi package with internet  you think they just install fiber foc? Phone also cannot directly use fiber...need to connect to the fiber termination unit
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Must be old copper phone line... If fibre means TS already subscribe Unifi.
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post Nov 21 2024, 11:27 AM

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QUOTE(icedmochatiny @ Nov 21 2024, 01:43 AM)
Basically the house phone of my grandparents house recently went down. Unifi told me must upgrade to wireless already because the cables around the area are in "critical condition". Ok lor I agreed to the upgrade thinking they would just change it to the wireless fiber type. Their customer service even told me this is free of charge and there will be no price increase. Somehow during today's installation visit, a wifi router was installed along with the cordless phone. I dont want the wifi because the house only got old people, they usually only use the house phone. Nowadays house phone must have wifi router only then house phone can work ke? Very confused. I cannot help much physically because I dont live in their area haih
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they will convert you to Unifi for phone due to equipment damage which is beyond repair. doesn't make economical sense for them to maintain copper infrastructure anymore.
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post Nov 21 2024, 11:34 AM

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Just get a GSM to landline adapter. It converts any landline phones into 2G GSM phone. I paid around 150 last time. Has a battery inside for backup. U practically can call anyone anywhere by lugging the phone and adapter along.
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QUOTE(acbc @ Nov 21 2024, 11:34 AM)
Just get a GSM to landline adapter. It converts any landline phones into 2G GSM phone. I paid around 150 last time. Has a battery inside for backup. U practically can call anyone anywhere by lugging the phone and adapter along.
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the thing is, TM probably has already provided TS such a thing like you mentioned, but 4G
i think TS may have just confused it for wifi router
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post Nov 21 2024, 05:26 PM

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QUOTE(icedmochatiny @ Nov 21 2024, 01:43 AM)
Basically the house phone of my grandparents house recently went down. Unifi told me must upgrade to wireless already because the cables around the area are in "critical condition". Ok lor I agreed to the upgrade thinking they would just change it to the wireless fiber type. Their customer service even told me this is free of charge and there will be no price increase. Somehow during today's installation visit, a wifi router was installed along with the cordless phone. I dont want the wifi because the house only got old people, they usually only use the house phone. Nowadays house phone must have wifi router only then house phone can work ke? Very confused. I cannot help much physically because I dont live in their area haih
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Unifi comes bundled with FREE Telephone Number that runs on VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol). The backbone of the access is using Fibre Optic cable.

The so called wireless phone is just a Cordless Desk Phone, connected directly to the Router.

Unifi also provide Telephone with VoIP only (No Internet), but the so called router is slightly different because it only runs on VoIP, there will not be any internet access. This also runs on fibre optic cable.


Hope this helps... cool2.gif

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post Nov 21 2024, 10:37 PM

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QUOTE(PRSXFENG @ Nov 21 2024, 08:36 AM)
Did you get this?
https://www.nanominds.cc/whp-s20.html

This is their wireless home phone thing
they dont want to maintain the old physical copper lines anymore

this is a 4g router with wifi disabled, you cannot use it to connect to the internet
the antennas you see are for the 4g signal

it is simply just an adapter to connect the old home phone up to 4g wireless for calls
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that is SIM Card but they landline old number prefer
old man people for old number only
if new number very bad someone don't know number to call him
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post Nov 21 2024, 10:39 PM

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QUOTE(tng55 @ Nov 21 2024, 10:37 PM)
that is SIM Card but they landline old number prefer
old man people for old number only
if new number very bad someone don't know number to call him
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for my grandparents setup, it kept the old landline number

basically the only changes was instead of going through copper lines it goes to this 4g router thing for the calls
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post Nov 22 2024, 12:12 AM

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QUOTE(PRSXFENG @ Nov 21 2024, 10:39 PM)
for my grandparents setup, it kept the old landline number

basically the only changes was instead of going through copper lines it goes to this 4g router thing for the calls
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ohh 4g router for the call still can be use old landline number ???
i think sim card will new number
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post Nov 22 2024, 07:39 PM

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QUOTE(tng55 @ Nov 22 2024, 12:12 AM)
ohh 4g router for the call still can be use old landline number ???
i think sim card will new number
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yep, everything stays the same
price per month, phone number, etc

just the connection method
and like 1 year contract?

 

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