Please me install my home phone

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Feel really silly asking this, but I've just bought a home phone how do I install it? The instructions saying I have to put the phone cord in the modular wall jack thingy, but I've already got the WiFi cord in there? And I need the home phone in my office? Please help 🙈

You need an ADSL filter. There was probably one in your router ('wifi') box.

Have you got a splitter? Basically it plugs into the phone socket & allows you to connect your WiFi and phone into the port?

Looks like a double phone socket.

www.amazon.co.uk/BT-11249-ADSL-Broadband-Microfilter/dp/B0000A42XM/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=adsl+filters&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1538057766&sr=8-5

There should be a splitter box that came with your WiFi router with 2 outputs - 1 for the router and 1 for the phone. The router won't work without it so it must be there!

You need a splitter. Did your Wi-Fi supplier / broadband supplier not give you one?

Go with what fishes suggests. I'm old fashioned still call them call them splitters

The router won't work without it so it must be there!

That occurred to me as well - unless you use an existing lead there's not really any way of connecting the router to the phone line unless you use a filter/splitter.

Unless it's Virginmedia broadband I suppose. Or maybe a BT fibre connection - I'm not sure how those are terminated?

Oh yes! I've done it. But splitter box is in the living room, and I need the phone in my office. I bought a cheap corded phone 🙈 it won't work willl it?

It's Plusnet phone/broadband package

If it's a corded phone then it needs the cord to be able reach your phone socket!