IP Phone AT-530 - Review
Looking for a cheap SIP IP phone handset? Then you should consider the AT-530 as an option. It has many advanced features usually not found in such a cheap phone and sometimes not even in the more expensive ones.
Here are the features that I find the most useful:
- Two Ethernet jacks.
- Can register to two SIP services.
- Simple Dial plan - ie setup different SIP providers for different number ranges, including adding and removing prefixes. No need to dial international number format for local calls when using international SIP providers. If you had several handsets you could setup a basic office without any PBX,. eg Dial 101 and using dial plan set it to to go straight to IP address of another handset.
- Loud and clear handset and handsfree.
- IAX2 protocol support (easier protocol when connecting through firewalls to an Asterisk PBX).
- Power-over-Ethernet - if your Ethernet switch supports it, relieves you of the power adapter at the phone.
Installation and Configuration
- Installation is easy, just plug it in to your Ethernet, and power.
- DHCP on your network should give it an IP address.
- Press the SYS key on the phone, and it will show you the IP address that it is using. Enter this into a web browser and connect to the phone web configuration interface. See the Quick Start Guide (pdf) for more details.
- The first thing you should do, is to make sure that you are running the latest firmware. My phone had V1.0 when it arrived, and IAX2 was not actually an option until I updated the firmware.
More info can be found at:
http://voip-info.org/wiki/view/AT-530
http://www.atcom.cn (Manufacturer site for manual, firmware, support forum)
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