The phone arrived sooner than I expected, ordered it yesterday and it
was at my door around an hour ago.
I’ve just configured the phone and the task took less time than I
thought it may, everything was clearly laid out in the support guide
provided by Internode though this phone certainly supports other VOIP
providers which either can be configured manually or are already there
in the firmware of the Gigaset, all the user need do then is to type in
the appropriate user information particular to the user.
so a brief description of the phone would seem in order.
If you’re a user of Siemen’s cordless phone systems then the design will
look perfectly familiar to you, a simple base box with a “Paging” button
on the front and a number of handsets depending on how many you
purchased with the base, in my case I have one handset though I may buy
more in the future.
The system can handle both VOIP and PSTN calls, a maximum of 6 different
VOIP accounts from different VOIP providers can be installed and
configured, these can be used simultaneously along with the PSTN line,
the Gigaset can handle 3 parallel calls at any one time.
Users of Gigaset VOIP phone systems can set up separate Gigaset VOIP
accounts, this way all Gigaset users throughout the world an communicate
via the Gigaset network for free, handy if you know a whole bunch of
people with Gigaset phones, as for now I’m using the Nodephone VOIP
system though I do plan to configure Mynetfone, I also have my PSTN line
connected.
Still a fair bit to do, I have to configure the answering machine - the
gigabit can support 6 answering machines - and I have to do some
tweaking but I do know at this point that I can make and receive calls
and that’s the important thing.
Such a system as described would be incredibly useful for those who
didn’t want to muck about with a separate VOIP adapter, who just wanted
the phone.
If you buy the Gigaset from Internet then it will come pre configured,
all the user need do is to connect the phone to their rooter.
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Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of
the halfwits in this world behind.
