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IDNet Help / Re: Call Blocking with UBOSS a...

Last post by Simon - Mar 14, 2025, 17:36:10

There may be be problems adding numbers as I dont think you can use +44 which is needed for Uboss. I tried this to convert +44 to numbers my phone would work with and couldn't

It's only a one month contract so if it doesn't work as I need it to, I'll have to look elsewhere. 

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IDNet Help / Re: Call Blocking with UBOSS a...

Last post by john7 - Mar 14, 2025, 17:11:05

There may be be problems adding numbers as I dont think you can use +44 which is needed for Uboss. I tried this to convert +44 to numbers my phone would work with and couldn't

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IDNet Help / Re: Call Blocking with UBOSS a...

Last post by Simon - Mar 14, 2025, 13:55:23

Thanks Terry, that's useful to know.  I must admit, I've not had that many recently, but I had a phase of getting five or six calls a day, hence the call blocker.

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IDNet Help / Re: Call Blocking with UBOSS a...

Last post by Terryphi - Mar 14, 2025, 13:49:36

Simon, like you I used the CPR Call Blocker on my old landline but I found it increasingly less useful as spammers used one-time only spoofed numbers. Since I have been using UBOSS the number of spam calls has significantly reduced. This may be because OFCOM has recently told telecom operators to be more effective in blocking spam calls.Personally I am happy to live with the very occasional spam call which are easily identified because they usually begin with 0044.

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IDNet Help / Call Blocking with UBOSS and T...

Last post by Simon - Mar 11, 2025, 12:14:14

I've just been having correspondence with IDNet regarding spam call blocking with UBOSS.  The advice given is that they would have to do this on the UBOSS 'platform', ie, if I wanted a number blocked I would have to email them to request this. 

However, in the router settings there are clear instructions as to configuring call blocking on an individual number basis:

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IDNet have confirmed that the router is not locked and fully user configurable, so I would have thought I'd be able to configure call blocking myself.

Has anyone used this feature successfully?  It's fairly essential for me to have some certainty of this before switching to VoIP, as I currently have a CPR Call Blocker, which works inline with, and is also powered by, the PSTN line, and I've got about 60 numbers of spam callers I'd want to transfer to the block list in the router.

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Other manufacturers / Re: TP-Link EX820v v1.0 firmwa...

Last post by john7 - Mar 03, 2025, 08:06:33

Thanks every one else does it automatically when you post!

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Other manufacturers / Re: TP-Link EX820v v1.0 firmwa...

Last post by Simon - Mar 02, 2025, 12:10:19

@john7 - if you want notifications of replies to your topics, you have options to enable these in your profile.

https://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php?action=profile;area=notification;sa=alerts

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Other manufacturers / Re: TP-Link EX820v v1.0 firmwa...

Last post by john7 - Mar 02, 2025, 11:34:35

Sorry not replying before, I forget unlike every other forum I am a member of I don't get emails automatically when there's been a reply here. I was looking for a system that would deal with a  house  extension resulting in my office (with NAS and two printers and the internet access being behind what was an exterior wall. Also with a 500Mb up and down fiber I could see no point in using a router that might not maximize the speed though the house which it looked like the EX8230 would do. IDNet tried selling the idea just Wi-Fi would work, but I had a ethernet cable installed through the wall so used that and actually TP-LINK actually recommend using cable connection as well. So I have a HX220 in the living room (interestingly IDNet sell these but regrettably they have long since been replaced by a latter model by TP-LINK so beware of getting one as TP-LINK no longer supports them I found!). My wife has her office upstairs and uses Wi-Fi and gets around 450Mb up and down which  is below the speed you get down stairs is but quite good. (below what the Netgear systen got but thats another story)  On a test with the HX220 off Wi-Fi speed was well under 40% of this speed so relying on it for the link between devices would not have been at all good! I wouldn't think the HX230  would be anywhere as good.

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Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: My further ramblings about...

Last post by stan - Feb 26, 2025, 21:56:14

Much obliged to you, Nowster.

I do believe the two items you highlighted are RJ11 to plug into the router combined with the usual BT type plug attached to the old analogue phones.

Apologis if I fail to promptky reply on here, I don't currently receive reminder emails to alert me to replies.  I'll look further tosee where we're going wrong.

Ta.

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Broadband, Internet & General Computer News & Discussion / Re: My further ramblings about...

Last post by nowster - Feb 26, 2025, 13:27:04

Note that the usual socket on the back of a router is RJ11 and your phones have 431A plugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_telephone_socket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack#RJ11,_RJ14,_RJ25_wiring