Configuring the UTStarcom F1000

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 11

I have purchased an F1000 to replace my old Zyxel wifi phone, that worked incredibly well in an open hot spot.

I need a step by step instructive on how to set this phone up. It's completely blank so I have to enter all of the information.

The manual doesn't cover how to do this.

Is there a document I can access or some one could provide to help me?

Missing the Zyxel

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject:

http://vonage.com/help.php?category=75&nav=3
unless you purchased new Vonage service with it, or have a softphone account, it won't work.

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 11

reebok wrote:

http://vonage.com/help.php?category=75&nav=3
unless you purchased new Vonage service with it, or have a softphone account, it won't work.

I do have an account and was able to get a Zyxel phone working beautifully. I had also configured a Xpro on my Pocket PC with it.

I am just totally crosseyed with this new phone. I just don't seem to get it. As usual, I didn't make any notes the last time. I just kept tweaking until it worked but I think that the F1000's many parameters has made the possibility of a trial and error approach
exponentially futile.

It probably would help if I read up on the forum but I only come here when I'm in trouble.

Are there any threads here that might be helpful;?

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject:

is this what you need
http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic3346.html
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-August/059912.html

Posts: 328 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 328

From the UTStarcom WiFi Phone user forum:

There are two different versions of F1000 for Vonage. One of these is the version sold through Vonage directly. There are no visible config setting for that version. All configuration is done by Vonage from their servers.

If you want to use an "open/unlocked" F1000 with Vonage service, you can do so using a Vonage soft phone account, not their standard account. The soft phone account would be added to your normal account.

Once you sign up for a soft phone account from Vonage, you will get a SIP User name and SIP password (different fro your admin login password for their web interface). Too put that into the phone:

Press Menu -> WiFi Settings -> Signal Protocol -> SIP

Go through the items on that menu one at a time (from the top):

SIP Register Server Mode = DNS (not IP)

SIP Register Server Domain = sphone.vopr.vonage.net

SIP Register Server IP Address = 0.0.0.0 (not used if DNS)

SIP Register Server Port = 5061

SIP Outbound Proxy = DNS (not IP)

SIP Outbound Server Domain = sphone.vopr.vonage.net

SIP Outbound Server IP Address = 0.0.0.0 (not used if DNS)

SIP Outbound Server Port = 5061

SIP User Name = This is your 11 digit phone number (including the 1 at the beginning plus the rest of the 10 digit US number including area code)

SIP Authentication String = Same as SIP user name

SIP Password = Your softphone SIP password - a combination of 10 random letters, numbers and symbols that you get as your soft phone SIP password

To administer the SIP Password in the F1000, you need to enter the security code for the phone (default is 888888)

Note that with the open/standard F1000 phone, some Vonage features - such as message waiting - will not work properly as these are implemented in a unique way by Vonage and that method is only supported on Vonage offered phones.

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 11

howiewifi wrote:

From the UTStarcom WiFi Phone user forum:

There are two different versions of F1000 for Vonage. One of these is the version sold through Vonage directly. There are no visible config setting for that version. All configuration is done by Vonage from their servers.

If you want to use an "open/unlocked" F1000 with Vonage service, you can do so using a Vonage soft phone account, not their standard account. The soft phone account would be added to your normal account.

Once you sign up for a soft phone account from Vonage, you will get a SIP User name and SIP password (different fro your admin login password for their web interface). Too put that into the phone:

Press Menu -> WiFi Settings -> Signal Protocol -> SIP

Go through the items on that menu one at a time (from the top):

SIP Register Server Mode = DNS (not IP)

SIP Register Server Domain = sphone.vopr.vonage.net

SIP Register Server IP Address = 0.0.0.0 (not used if DNS)

SIP Register Server Port = 5061

SIP Outbound Proxy = DNS (not IP)

SIP Outbound Server Domain = sphone.vopr.vonage.net

SIP Outbound Server IP Address = 0.0.0.0 (not used if DNS)

SIP Outbound Server Port = 5061

SIP User Name = This is your 11 digit phone number (including the 1 at the beginning plus the rest of the 10 digit US number including area code)

SIP Authentication String = Same as SIP user name

SIP Password = Your softphone SIP password - a combination of 10 random letters, numbers and symbols that you get as your soft phone SIP password

To administer the SIP Password in the F1000, you need to enter the security code for the phone (default is 888888)

Note that with the open/standard F1000 phone, some Vonage features - such as message waiting - will not work properly as these are implemented in a unique way by Vonage and that method is only supported on Vonage offered phones.

THANK YOU BIG TIME!

It's a beautiful thing!

It works! Too bad I had to jump the gun and buy the phone
on the net. I would have loved the other features.

Would Vonage Technical Support program the phone for me if I paid for the service?

Thanks again

Will

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

no. if you buy the phone through Vonage, when it connects to a hotspot it will autoconfigure.

Posts: 11 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 11

howiewifi wrote:

From the UTStarcom WiFi Phone user forum:

Note that with the open/standard F1000 phone, some Vonage features - such as message waiting - will not work properly as these are implemented in a unique way by Vonage and that method is only supported on Vonage offered phones.

I have incoming and outgoing caller ID, call conferencing and call waiting so far. Is message waiting worth the extra costs?

Posts: 81 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jan 02, 2006 Posts: 81

So let me see if I have this correct. You got the phone to work with the Vonage softphone settings, even though you didn't sign up for the softphone service? That's cool.

Posts: 328 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 328

That is not correct. To get an "unlocked" WiFi phone to work with Vonage, you need to subscribe to a soft phone account. You can also get a Vonage provided WiFi phone to go with a "main" account.