Planet Technology SKG-300 manual

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    Personal VoIP Gateway SKG-300 User Manual 1[...]

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    Copyright Copyright (C) 2005 PLANET T echnology Corp. All rights reserved. The products and programs described in this User ’s Manual are licensed products of PLANET T echnol ogy , This User ’s Manual contains proprietary information protected by copyri ght, and this User ’s Manual and al l accompanying hardware, software, and documentation a[...]

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    3 Index Chapter 1 Intr oduction .................................................................................................................... 4 SKG-300 Featur es ............................................................................................................ 4 Package contents .....................................................[...]

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    Chapter 1 Intr oduction Thank you for purchasing SKG-300 Personal V oIP Gateway . PLANET provides several types of Skype solution to meet various dem ands. A s illustrate d, customers can use any home phone for both Internet-b ased and standard telephony , without the need for special phone, headset s or microphones. Following the wizard to inst a [...]

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    5 ¾ Quick Installa tion Guide ¾ CD-ROM with User ’s Ma nual, Driver and Utility System requirements Minimum System Requirements : ¾ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP ¾ Pentium 400MHz CPU or equivalent ¾ 128MB RAM ¾ 10MB free Disk Space ¾ CD-ROM drive ¾ Internet connection (any broadband: ADSL or Cable ) ¾ Standard telephone landline subscripti[...]

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    Chapter 2 SKG-300 Setup 2.1 Hardware Det ails LED Display LED Indicators Descriptions LINK S teady on indicates SKG-300 has correctly connected to the USB port of your PC PSTN S teady on indicates SKG-300 is communicating with PSTN line, or wait for calling at stan dby mode Vo I P S teady on indicates SKG-300 is communicating with V oIP line Port C[...]

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    Port Descriptions Line For connecting to PSTN line Phone For connecting to a phone set USB For connecting to a computer or laptop 2.2 SKG-300 utility setup " Note : Do not connect th e SKG-300 adapter to your computer un til instructed to do so by the installation wizard. The following instructions will guide you to through t he process of ins[...]

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    Then you will see the End User License Agreement. Click the “I have read …” checkbox and press the I Agree button as shown below . W ait until you see the following popup and pre ss the OK button. Connect the USB cable to the SKG-300 adapter USB port as shown below: The other end of the USB cable must be connecte d to a USB port on your compu[...]

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    9 " Note : The SKG-300 Adapter MUST not be connec ted to a bus powered USB hub. Y ou will see the following Windows New Hardware Found Wiza rd . Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) and press the Ne xt button, input the installation program location and p re ss Next button. The installation will contin ue and you will see[...]

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    When you see the following screen, pre ss the Finish button. 10 Then you will see the following Windows Ne w Hardware Found Wizard scree n. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) and press the Ne xt button, input the installation program location and p re ss Next button. The installation will contin ue and you will see the follo[...]

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    When you see the following screen, pre ss the Continue Any w ay button. When you will see the following scree n, select the option, “ allow this program to use Skype” and press the OK button. 11[...]

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    12 When you see the following screen, pre ss the Finish button. STEP 3: When the instal lation completes you should see t he following message appea r near your system tray and a new telephone icon (circl ed in red below) in your system tray as sh own below . The telephone icon indica tes that the SKG-300 sof tware is inst alled and running and tha[...]

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    STEP 4: Connect a standard telepho ne handset to the SKG-300 phone jack using a telephone cable as shown be low STEP 5: Co nnect a telep hone cabl e betwee n the S K G-300 line jack and a wal l jack as sho wn bel ow . Note that this is only required for making regular ph one calls or for forwa rding S kype calls to your mobile (o r other off-site) [...]

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    Y ou final configuration should resemble the followin g. 14[...]

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    Chapter 3 SKG-300 Configuration 3.1 Enable SKG-300 In order to use SKG-300 and its features, (1) the SKG-30 0 adapter must be plugged into the PC, (2) a telephone handset must be plugged into the SKG-30 0 adapter , (3) the SKG-300 adapter must be conn ected to the telephone wall jack 1 and (4) the SKG-300 agent must be runni ng (see green telephone[...]

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    Y ou may see the following screen, select the option, “ allow this program to use Skype” and press the OK button. Y ou should now see the SKGAgent in the Windows System T ray as shown below . Y ou are now ready to use the Planet Personal V oIP Gateway . SKGAgent S tates When the SKG-300 ad apter is install ed and the software is in stalled prop[...]

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    When the SKGAgent is not running, there is no phone in the syste m tray . 3.2 T esting SKG-300 Skype provides a useful feature to te st your connection. It is called Echo1 23. If you send “callme” in a chat with echo123, the echo12 3 service will call you and let you leave a message which will be played ba ck to you. This will help you verify t[...]

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    Y ou will see the following chat screen and you sh ould enter “callme” and press the Ent er key on your keyboard. Within 10-20 seconds, you should see the following screen, and the teleph one connected to the SKG-300 adapter should ring. Pick up the hand set and follow the inst ructions. The Echo T est Service will ask you to leave a message wh[...]

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    When the test concludes you can pre ss OK on the following screen. 19 and then press Finish on the following screen. 3.3 Making and Receiving Calls Y ou can continue to use the telephone hand set connected to the SKG-300 ad apter to make and receive standard tele phone calls as you used without any change. T o make a sta ndard phone call, just pick[...]

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    call, dialing as per the SkypeOut™ reco mmended dialing sequence, 00 + co untry code + telephone num ber (e.g. 00 886 2 22199518) and pressin g the asterisk (*) key . In order to make a call to a Skype™ contact, you will need to use the Skype™ prog ram to assign a speed dial (as described in the next section) to each pers on you would like to[...]

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    21 Step 3: Y ou will now see an indication that the Skype™ c ontact has a speed dial associated with them as shown be low . 3.5 Switching Between V oIP and Regular Calls While on a regular phone call you may receive a Sky pe™ call or while on a Skype™ call you may receive a regular call. The SKG-300 adapter will indicate an incomi ng call wit[...]

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    22 can do the following: • Press ‘#1’ to answer new call keeping current call on-hold • Press ‘##’ to answer call and terminate curre nt call Once having 2 active calls, you may: • Press ‘#1’ putting current call on-hold switching to other call • Press ‘##’ terminating current call switching to other call • Press ‘#2’ [...]

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    23 Y ou will see the SKG-300 configur ation screen as shown below . Press the Call Forwarding t ab to see the Call Forwarding p arameters as shown below . In order to forward incoming Skype™ calls to a telephone number such as your mobile phon e, change the VOIP to Phone Line settings as follows:[...]

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    • Check the Enable Call Forwar d checkb ox as sh own below 24 • Select the number of rings before the forwarding t akes place as shown belo w . Then select the telephone that sho uld be di aled on the telephone line and press the Apply and/or Exit button as shown below . Enter the telephone exactly a s you would dial it if you were to pick up a[...]

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    If you are on a PBX, you may need to press a digit to get an outside line (i.e. 9). In this case you would enter 0,,,22199518. In order to forward incomin g regula r call s to a V oIP call, such as through SkypeO ut™ or to a S kype a ccou nt, enter speed dial number (e.g. 22) associated with th e Skype Use r without the * key (as shown above).or [...]

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    3.9 T oll Bypass T oll bypass is similar to forwarding, except the in coming caller hears a beep, enters a pa ssword and then dials out an arbitrary number instead of fixed forw ardi ng as described in the previous se ction. There are two common scenari os for this. Y ou can call in from your mobile phone to the computer that the SKG-300 adaptor is[...]

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    27 In order to enable toll bypa ss of incoming PSTN calls, change the Phone Line to VOIP settings as follows: • Check the Enable T oll Bypass checkbox as sh own below • Select the number of rings before the forwarding t akes place as shown belo w .[...]

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    28 Set your password and press a pply as shown below . The password can b e any 4 to 8 digit s When you call into your telephone line you will hear a beep. Enter the pin code followed by the * button and then enter the Skype speed dial (e.g. 22) or the SkypeOut telephone number (e.g. 00 + country code + telephone number) followed by the * button. I[...]

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    29 " Note : You may need to disable suspend mode in your computer to prev ent the computer from going into sleep mode. If the computer is in sleep mode, then forwarding will not work. Or you can enable “Disable St andby/Hibernate” in configuration. 3.10 Call Recorder The SKG-300 adapter can be co nfigured to record PS TN or Skype voice by [...]

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    30 Automation : Inactive : SKG-300 will not record any voice. Record next call : SKG-300 will only record the next call, and then the Automation status will change to Inactive . Record all calls : SKG-300 will record all the calls automatica lly; user can check the voice file in the specific directory . Manual Control : User can select to[...]

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    User Action Key Repeat current message 1 Delete current message, move to next 2 Keep current message, move to next 3 Delete all messages 9 9. If you don’t enter any valid key within 5 sec af ter message has ended, the system will behave as if you pressed ‘3’ T o exit voicemail mode press ‘##” or place the attac hed telephone in the handse[...]

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    The Initiate V oIP Call – press these keys to get a V oIP dial-t one. Y ou can now dial a SkypeOut™ call or a Skype™ speed dial call from your telephone hand set . The Send Key – press this key following the phone number (or speed dial numb er) when making a V oIP call. The Call W aiting Sequence – press these keys during a call to switch[...]

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    33 When the uninst all in dicator disappears, the un-inst all ation is complete. 3.15 T roubleshooting The first step in troubleshooting is to read the re adme.txt that appears in the SKG-300 program group. It contain s a list of known issues for the current SKG-300 driver version. T o find out the driver version, right click on the SKG Agent (gree[...]

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    Common Fix If SKG-300 was working O K and suddenly stop s working properly (e.g. stop s responding to i ncoming rings or you cannot get a V oIP dial tone) try the followin g: • Quit the SKGAgent (right click on the green te lephone in the System T ray and select Quit) • Quit the Skype application • Unplug the SKG-300 adapt or • W ait 30 sec[...]

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    • If the Skype™ application was terminated for any reas on while the SKG-300 agent was running, you will need to exit the SKGAgent and then rest art it. • Some telephone handsets requi re a battery to be installed in order to ring. If your handset sup ports a battery , make sure there is a battery inst alled and that the battery is not deplet[...]

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    Check the Audio In and Audio Out list boxes and make sure SKG-300 Skype Audio Device is selected. Call Forwarding is not working properly • Make sure th at a telephone cable is plugged into th e SKG-300 adaptor line jack and to the wall phone plug • Make sure ca ll forwarding is configured properly in the SKGAgent -> Configure -> Call For[...]