IP Telephones ! Easy to set up ?

[jcwuk]

Guys

Just received an AAstra 480i Ip Telephone and am wondering if these are easy to set up and work via your home pc system ?

Ive read the Manual and its like another language !

Is it a case of plug and play so to speak ? or is there more to it ?

Im lost so any help would be great

Thanks in advance

[krap]

Where in the UK are you?

[Yugguy]

Do you have the flux capacitor?

[jcwuk]

krap said:

Where in the UK are you?

South of the country

[jcwuk]

Yugguy said:

Do you have the flux capacitor?

Hehe!

[jcwuk]

krap said:

Where in the UK are you?

Reason for question ?

[Mr E]

Assume it's a SIP phone, then yes it should be pretty trivial to configure.

I assume you want to use someone like Gradwell or Sipgate to provide your service rather than run your own VOIP server?

[neil_bolton]

Anyone on here had much experience in bolting on VOIP systems onto existing PBX systems?

I know Office Communications Server will allow it via a Media Gateway, but I was wondering if there are any other solutions: Jon Honeyball has been writing about his experiences with some free/cheap solutions with mixed success...

[jcwuk]

Mr E said:

Assume it's a SIP phone, then yes it should be pretty trivial to configure.

I assume you want to use someone like Gradwell or Sipgate to provide your service rather than run your own VOIP server?

Im not sure where to go for a service provider ?
Who would you recommend?

[Mr E]

jcwuk said:

Mr E said:

Assume it's a SIP phone, then yes it should be pretty trivial to configure.

I assume you want to use someone like Gradwell or Sipgate to provide your service rather than run your own VOIP server?

Im not sure where to go for a service provider ?
Who would you recommend?

I use the two named above and am quite happy. Other service providers exist, all of them should be pretty much similar to be honest.

If you use Sipgate for example, signing up for the account takes about 2 minutes, and they will then give you all the information you need to set the phone up (the phone probably has a web client if you point a browser at its IP address).

[Plotloss]

Can be as easy or as hard as you want it to be, essentially.

[jcwuk]

Mr E said:

jcwuk said:

Mr E said:

Assume it's a SIP phone, then yes it should be pretty trivial to configure.

I assume you want to use someone like Gradwell or Sipgate to provide your service rather than run your own VOIP server?

Im not sure where to go for a service provider ?
Who would you recommend?

I use the two named above and am quite happy. Other service providers exist, all of them should be pretty much similar to be honest.

If you use Sipgate for example, signing up for the account takes about 2 minutes, and they will then give you all the information you need to set the phone up (the phone probably has a web client if you point a browser at its IP address).

Thanks Mr e for your constructive advise

[Mr E]

jcwuk said:

Thanks Mr e for your constructive advise

Anytime dude. I do a bit of this professionally (well, sort of). If you can't make it work, post up and the power of PH can probably sort it.

[krap]

jcwuk said:

krap said:

Where in the UK are you?

Reason for question ?

Was going to offer my services, sorry I totally forgot I'd replied to your post

[jcwuk]

krap said:

jcwuk said:

krap said:

Where in the UK are you?

Reason for question ?

Was going to offer my services, sorry I totally forgot I'd replied to your post

Hi Sam

Thanks for your offer of help
Thats very kind of you.

Like your website

It looks like Perpetuity.biz

[krap]

£60 quid for a marmite lid? Thats one odd website!