bt home hub

[Nick's Dad]

Can anyone tell me if there are any disadvantages in using an ordinary touch tone telephone (eg the BT Esprit 1200) to activate and use BT Broadband Talk instead of the dedicated Hub telephone? BT tell us that the touch tone telephone will work as a hub phone, and, to me, it seems a better buy at half the price, but I've got a niggling doubt that there must be some reason why the Hub phone is so much more expensive. I can see that the Hub phone has a neater system for docking on the hub but, apart from that, the Esprit seems to have more features.

[iwalec]

I have been using a standard touch phone for six months with broadband talk and I have had no problems at all.

[Nick's Dad]

Thanks for the information, iwalec. After I posted the question I found a website (which I have since lost) on which someone asked a similar question and received many answers,ranging from satisfaction to complete disatisfaction, and plenty in between. BTs Indian helpdesk somehow crept in to the discussion - I could identify with this as it took me five weeks and hours of adjusting programmes as they sugested before they discovered that someone at BT had incorrectly connected my email so that it didn't work!