4. In Use

Although you can set the v2 up using its keypad and display, I chose instead to use the keypad, display and built-in Site Survey function (Figure 5) to first get it associated with my wireless router and assigned an IP via DHCP. I could then use its Information > IP Address menu to find the IP and complete the rest of the setup using its web interface. Figure 5, which was taken from the v2's PDF User Manual, shows that the Site Survey displays SSID, signal strength and encryption status.

Figure 5: Site survey
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There are actually two levels of web interface: user, which provides access to all settings except for SIP settings; and administrator, which adds access to the SIP settings. The interface takes a few seconds to go between screens, but takes at least 30 seconds between the time you log in and when the first screen comes up. You can restart the phone from the web interface - which I recommend after any programming - but can't log out of the interface. So if you want to change from user to administrator mode, you'll need to quit and restart your browser.

Figure 6: SIP settings (click image to enlarge)

Figure 7: NAT Traversal settings (click image to enlarge)

If you've programmed a SIP device before, you'll be able to find your way around the v2's configuration screens, and I found everything that I needed to get the phone set up and registered with my BroadVoice BYOD account. The phone also supports auto-provisioning via HTTP download and browser-based firmware updating. But if you need to control dial plans or other more advanced SIP settings, you won't find them on the v2.

Figure 6 shows the SIP settings page, and Figure 7 the NAT Traversal settings. The v2 supports Outbound proxy, STUN and Fake WAN address methods of working around problems with NAT routers and the screenshot shows I've selected Outbound Proxy. (Pay no attention to the STUN and Fake WAN settings, since they're just default dummy addresses.)

Figure 8: Phone settings (click image to enlarge)

Figure 9: Wireless settings (click image to enlarge)

Figure 8 provides a peek at the Phone settings screen where you can see that G.711u, G.711a, and G.729 codecs are supported and you can select inband, outband or disable DTMF relaying, and Figure 9 shows what you get for wireless knobs to tweak.

I'm not providing a screenshot for the Network setup screen, since it's pretty straightforward. You can enter settings manually (Static), use DHCP (the default) and there's even a PPPoE mode in case you need to connect the phone directly to a PPPoE connection. I found the last option to be somewhat odd , since I wouldn't want to connect any device directly to an Internet without the benefit of a firewall in front of it!

The phone also supports an internal Phone Book to ease dialing chores and also allows dialing from a list of recent calls. But you can't save entries to the phonebook from the recent call list, nor can you assign more than 10 speed dial numbers to phone book entries.