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VoIP – making calls via the Internet
CE 450 IP R / IM-Ost english / A31008-M1817-R601_1-7619 / starting.fm / 02.03.2007
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ion 2,
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2006
VoIP – making calls via the Internet
With VoIP (
V
oice
o
ver
I
nternet
P
rotocol), your calls are not made via a fixed connection as
in the telephone network, but rather they are transmitted via the Internet in the form of
data packets.
You can take advantage of all the benefits of VoIP with your Gigaset CE 450 IP R:
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You can make cost-effective calls at high voice quality with subscribers on the Internet,
the fixed network or the mobile phone network.
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VoIP providers will give you personal numbers, with which you can be reached from the
Internet, the fixed network and any mobile phone network.
To be able to use VoIP, you need the following:
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A broadband Internet connection (e.g. DSL) with flat rate (recommended) or volume-
based price.
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Internet access, i.e. a DSL modem, which you can use to connect your base station's
router to the Internet, and an Internet account.
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Access to the services of a VoIP provider. Open up to six accounts with
different
VoIP
providers.
Base station components
The Gigaset CE 450 IP R base station includes two independent components:
the base
station router
and
base station phone
, also frequently described as the router and phone
in the text that follows. These components must be configured and managed separately
from one another.
Base station router
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You can make router settings for the Internet connection and local network, and man-
age your router on your PC using the
router Web configurator
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You can protect the router and its settings via an individual password. This password will
not
allow access to the base station phone settings.
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The router is supplied with the following standard settings:
– Private IP address: 192.168.1.1
– IP address block: 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.253
– DHCP server enabled with IP address block: 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150
– Password: 0000 (4x zero)
