Long long time ago, showing your age now.I think there is something about the POTs system and not hanging up allows you to hogg the telephone.
this came in through my Fibre broadband landline handset so I'm baffled.
both gentlemen were speaking to each other over their mobile phones,
Have you tried this today and if so is your neighbour affected at all by an incoming call to your landline?Have you tried by simply calling your number from your mobile?
I explained how this could be a potential cause above, :-Now while I said both men were on their mobile phones, his fathers number did come in from a landline number, I would have to verify that further but my neighbour did say that both men were using "Messenger"
using his WiFi when calling via 'messenger' and not GSM as there would be no potential 'crossover' otherwise with the OPs IP line.
surely this is a data breach and breaks standards especially in the age of GDPR etc.
Have you tried this today and if so is your neighbour affected at all by an incoming call to your landline?
Yes I can call my landline from my mobile fine, I wouldn't know if my neighbour or anyone else can hear my call if it was happening, my neighbour had no evidence that I could hear his call between him and his father so if I don't hear from someone to tell me otherwise I won't know.
While you may be with different 'providers' both Vodafone and Eir use the same network.
ok they may be on the same network, it still doesn't explain it.
I explained how this could be a potential cause above, :-
My neighbour was speaking over WIFI, this has really shocked me, I didn't think this could happen. People should be very wary discussing anything over the phone.
I will need to check that with him for sure, he said he was on his mobile so I assumed it was WIFI, I don't have any experience of "Messenger"If your neighbour was using wifi in his house, then his call was routed over his broadband connection not over the wireless connection (3G, 4G)
Indeed it was, as I said above.If your neighbour was using wifi in his house, then his call was routed over his broadband connection not over the wireless connection (3G, 4G)
Strange, I, and I suspect most people, would assume if someone said they were using a mobile phone, then that usage would be routed via the mobile network.he said he was on his mobile so I assumed it was WIFI,
Not being smart, but that has been known that for years.People should be very wary discussing anything over the phone.
Yes its really bizarre, I really want to get to the bottom of what's going on, there is a reason or a Log of some sort somewhere of what's happened, because its so unusual I want to find out what's happening. This is not a neighbour I am regularly speaking to over the phone either, although I did send a WhatsApp message to a group that we are both in yesterday, doesn't explain anything either but its all I can think of.Yes, as I said above.
But still doesn't explain the callers ID appearing on the OPs phone and the 'crossed line'. Even if the neighbour was inadvertently logged in on the OPs WiFi the call should not present on the land line.
I am not fully understanding how this "Messenger" works, I'm imagining its like WhatsApp but his dad was using it via a landline number so I don't know how that works.
Ask Graham Dwyer for his opinionNot being smart, but that has been known that for years.
Is he by any chance connecting to your WiFi and not his? - in this case the call is being processed by your router and as it is an IP phone router could be heard?
But still doesn't explain the callers ID appearing on the OPs phone and the 'crossed line'. Even if the neighbour was inadvertently logged in on the OPs WiFi the call should not present on the land line.
Yes password protected, we use a Netgear Orbi.You should be able to log in to your router and see what devices are connected to it
Presumably, you have secured the Wifi with a password?
That means his call was broken up in to little packets of 0's and 1's and sent from his phone to the broadband router using WiFi and then over the broadband connection to his father and similarly his father's reply was sent as packets back to the broadband router and then over Wifi to his phone.
It would seem as if his packets of 0's and 1's somehow got mixed in with your broadband router.
Is he by any chance connecting to your WiFi and not his? - in this case the call is being processed by your router and as it is an IP phone router could be heard?
The other possibility is that the broadband connections are getting mixed together - although that would seem highly unlikely
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