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
89
Making VoIP settings on the handset
Gigaset A580 IP / US English / A31008-xxxx-xxxx-x-xxxx / settings_bs_hs_pabx.fm / 24.04.2009
Version 8, 03.09.2008
Making VoIP settings on the handset
To use VoIP, you must set a few parameters for your phone.
You can make the following settings using your handset.
u Download the general access data for your VoIP provider from the Gigaset
configuration server and store it on your phone.
u Enter your personal access data for your first VoIP account (first VoIP phone
number). You can configure the access data for five further VoIP accounts
via the phone's Web configurator.
u Set the phone's IP address in the LAN.
The connection wizard on your phone can help you make the settings.
ú You can set these and other parameters conveniently via the Web configurator
on a PC connected to your local network (£
Page 96).
Using the connection wizard
The connection wizard starts automatically when you set the handset and base
station up for the first time, or when you try to connect to the Internet before
making the necessary settings.
You can also start the connection wizard via the menu:
§Menu§ ¢ Settings ¢ Base ¢ Telephony
Connection Wizard
Select and press
§OK§.
~ Enter the system PIN and press §OK§.
For entering VoIP settings using the connection wizard, £
Page 21.
Changing settings without the connection wizard
You can change your provider's VoIP settings and the VoIP user data via the
menu without starting the connection wizard.
Downloading your VoIP provider's settings
The general settings for various VoIP providers are available to download on the
Internet. The relevant Web page is preconfigured in your phone.
Prerequisite: Your phone is connected to the Internet.
§Menu§ ¢ Settings ¢ Base ¢ Telephony ¢ VoIP
~ Enter the system PIN and press §OK§.
Select VoIP Provider
Select and press §OK§.
The phone establishes a connection to the Internet.
q Select country and press
§OK§.
q Select your VoIP provider and press §OK§.
Your VoIP provider data is downloaded and saved in your phone.