Message waiting tone will not go away. HELP!!! Wife Factor

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 4

OK

I have had Vonage for a while. I am using the following equipment.

Linksys PAP2 (no reset button)
Linksys WRT54GS current firmware, QOS & Port Forwarding enabled
Linksys PSUS4 Print Server
Motorola Cable modem

WRTG54GS is using DHCP currently

Uniden Cordless Phone (Cheapy until the number transfer switches)
Canon PIXMA MP780 fax line hooked up to PAP2

Voice Mail is currently turned off

I have tried resetting all network equipment to factory defaults, turning the units off for over an hour without them being plugged in. Unhooked the phone and fax line one at a time and both at the same time etc.

Can anyone help with this?

There is no voicemail on my account, or when I login to vonage.

Wife is pissed. ug

Posts: 58 · Full Forum Member Joined: Feb 04, 2006 Posts: 58

Did you simply try to dial *123 (double check that you have no messages) and then be sure to exit with *?

Posts: 26 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 26

If the * key doesn't get rid of it, pull the power cords on the router and phones, and reset.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 4

Tried all of that, no luck

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 20

Mine did that for about a day, I finally logged into my voice mail and pushed about very menu option without really changing anything, when I finally logged out of my voicemail the voicemail indicator went away.

Jim

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 4

Man, I tried that too, as well as setting it up in different ways (static route, yada, yada). Methinks it's time for a visit to get a new one.

I am stumped

Posts: 323 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 323

I had this happen to me once and the only way I got rid of it was to leave myself a message from another phone.

I used used my cell and left a message, then once I retrieved the message the beep, beep, beep, beep stopped beeping. Very Happy

I can't tell you why this worked, but it is easy enough to try.

Hope this helps,
John

Posts: 192 · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject:

butterman wrote:

I had this happen to me once and the only way I got rid of it was to leave myself a message from another phone.

I used used my cell and left a message, then once I retrieved the message the beep, beep, beep, beep stopped beeping. Very Happy

I can't tell you why this worked, but it is easy enough to try.

Hope this helps,
John

This procedure worked for me just yesterday. For some reason Vonage wants you to check your vmail through the phone rather than the web site. I had checked the web site and deleted all the vmail, but the stutter tone wouldn't go away until I left a new message and deleted it through the phone.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 4

Thank the Gods!

problem solved, why I never thought of leaving a VM with my cell phone I will never know.....Thanks for the Help!!!

YAY!

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:11 am Post subject:

You can also leave a voice mail for yourself using your Vonage line by doing the following:

dial *67, then your Vonage #. The voice mail system won't receive the CallerID info b/c of the *67, and will prompt you to enter a mailbox # to leave a message for. Put in your full Vonage # including the 1 before the area code, and you can leave a message for yourself that way. You can also leave a message for any Vonage customer that way.