jberanek

The instructions you linked to say you can plug a phone in directly to the back of the hub, this should enable you to use any other phone including a different DECT base station.

"Remember, you can connect a phone directly to the phone port on the back of the Hub if you wish."

In reply to a post by kitcat:

jberanek

The instructions you linked to say you can plug a phone in directly to the back of the hub, this should enable you to use any other phone including a different DECT base station.

"Remember, you can connect a phone directly to the phone port on the back of the Hub if you wish."

So, that is sort of interesting, as the back of the delivered Home Hub has the following, which is a sticker over the telephone port which reads "Digital Voice Customers only"

https://i.imgur.com/0txepjZ.png

The rear socket works fine for Digital Voice, you just lose HD calls and the ability to have more than one call happening at a time.

I really can't see any of these consumer ISPs issuing you with SIP credentials to use your own ATA, it's not worth them having to support any problems that might come up - and there's no guarantee that they are even using SIP between your router and their voice network. If you are in a position where you don't want to run the ISP-supplied router but still want VoIP then port your number away to somebody like Sipgate in advance of placing any new connectivity orders.

I don't have any special insight, I just think you're going to be waiting a really long time if you think BT Consumer, Sky etc. are going to offer an ethernet-connected box allowing you to use their phone service with a 3rd party router.

The WPS button appears to be for both DECT and WiFi device connection, not sure if it possible to disable the insecure WiFi WPS functionality.

AFAIK BT Residential only offer Digital Voice using the Smart Hub 2 to their DECT handsets or a third-party phone (including other DECT basestations) via the phone socket on the rear of the Hub. You should be able register other compatible DECT handsets to the Smart Hub 2 as it supposedly implements DECT CAT-iq 2.1

BT Business supply the Business Smart Hub and appear to offer Cloud Voice using the Yealink W60B DECT IP base with a W56H handset, no option of connecting a wired phone but Yealink do have a desktop DECT phone. Although I'm pretty sure they won't give you the SIP credentials and replace the Yealink stuff, you can at least ditch the Business Hub for a proper network setup.

So you have a socket you can plug a standard phone into.

In reply to a post by jpm:

I don't have any special insight, I just think you're going to be waiting a really long time if you think BT Consumer, Sky etc. are going to offer an ethernet-connected box allowing you to use their phone service with a 3rd party router.

A very long time. Mind you Sky did try to get away with blocking customers from using 3rd party VoIP providers if you had one of their latest broadband hubs.