User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- The handset at a glance
- Overview of display icons
- The base station at a glance
- Contents
- Safety precautions
- Gigaset A580 IP - more than just making calls
- VoIP - making calls via the Internet
- Gigaset HDSP - telephony with brilliant sound quality
- First steps
- Operating the handset
- Menu trees
- Making calls with VoIP and the fixed line network
- VoIP telephony via Gigaset.net
- Network services
- Using lists
- Using the directory
- Saving the first number in the directory
- Storing a number in the directory
- Order of directory entries
- Selecting a directory entry
- Dialing with the directory
- Managing directory entries
- Using Shortcut keys
- Transferring the directory to another handset
- Copying a displayed number to the directory
- Copying a number from the directory
- Using the network mailbox
- ECO DECT: Conserving energy
- Setting the alarm clock
- Using multiples handsets
- Handset settings
- Changing the date and time
- Changing the display language
- Activating/deactivating the screensaver
- Quickly accessing functions
- Activating/deactivating auto answer
- Changing the handsfree/earpiece volume
- Setting ringers
- Activating/deactivating advisory tones
- Setting the battery low tone
- Restoring the handset default settings
- Setting the base station via the handset
- Making VoIP settings on the handset
- Operating the base station on the PABX
- Setting the phone with the PC
- Connecting the PC with the telephone's Web configurator
- Logging in, setting the Web configurator language
- Logging off
- Using the Web pages
- Menu bar
- Navigation area
- Working area
- Buttons
- Opening Web pages
- Setting the phone with the Web configurator
- Configuring the IP
- Configuring telephone connections
- Optimizing voice quality for VoIP connections
- Setting the telephone's default connection
- Activating the fixed line network connection as an alternate connection
- Assigning send and receive numbers to handsets
- Activating Call Forwarding for VoIP connections
- Entering your own area code, activating/deactivating an automatic area code for VoIP
- Activating/deactivating network mailbox, entering numbers
- Setting DTMF signaling for VoIP
- Defining Flash key functions for VoIP (hook flash)
- Configuring call forwarding via VoIP
- Defining local communication ports for VoIP
- Messaging
- Configuring info services/activating idle display
- Changing internal handset numbers and names
- Transferring handset directories to/from the PC
- Activating VoIP status message display
- Starting a firmware update
- Activating/deactivating the automatic version check
- Copying the date/time from time server
- Querying the phone status
- Getting help with your phone
- Protecting our environment
- Appendix
- FCC / ACTA Information
- Gigaset A580 IP - free software
- Accessories
- Glossary
- Index
- Mounting the charging cradle to the wall
- Mounting the base station to the wall
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Setting the phone with the PC
Gigaset A580 IP / US English / A31008-xxxx-xxxx-x-xxxx / web_server.fm / 24.04.2009
Version 8, 03.09.2008
Setting the phone with the Web configurator
You can make the following settings using the Web configurator:
u Connect your phone to the local network (£ Page 103).
u Configuration for telephony:
– Enter settings for the VoIP provider and configure or activate/deactivate
VoIP accounts (
£
Page 107).
– Specify the name of the fixed line network (£
Page 114).
– Activate/deactivate the Gigaset.net connection (£
Page 114).
– Activate/deactivate call forwarding for calls to your VoIP numbers or to
your Gigaset.net number (
£
Page 121).
– Configure settings to improve voice quality for the VoIP connections
(
£
Page 115).
– Define the default connection for your telephone (fixed line network or
VoIP) (£
Page 119).
– Assign VoIP phone numbers to the individual handsets (£
Page 120).
– Define user-specific dialing plans for emergency numbers and for cost
control purposes (£
Page 123).
– Enter and activate/deactivate the network mailbox for each number
assigned to the telephone (£
Page 125).
– Define the type of DTMF signaling (e.g. for remote operation of a VoIP
network mailbox) and the Flash key function for VoIP (
£
Page 126).
– Enter settings for call forwarding via VoIP (call placing, i.e. connecting
two external callers to each other, £
Page 127).
u Output of information from an IP info service on the handset (£
Page 133).
u Synchronize date and time on the base station with a time server on the
Internet (£
Page 139).
u Start firmware updates (£
Page 137).
u Manage registered handsets:
– Change names and internal numbers of the registered handsets
(
£
Page 133).
– Copy contacts from your PC's Outlook address book to the handset direc-
tories or save handset directories to your PC (£
Page 134).
– Activate/deactivate the display of VoIP status messages on your handset
(£
Page 136).