Customers with their own SIP-enabled phone, gateway or PBX are free to use this to connect to VoTel's service. The device must be SIP v2 compatible. Refer to the settings below for a guide to how you should configure your device to connect to the Hero Internet service.
| Username/Login/User ID: | Your VoTel Phone Number (e.g. 61892420000) |
| Authorisation Name/Display Name: | Your VoTel Phone Number (e.g. 6182420000) |
| Password: | Your VoTel Phone Password (assigned in our portal) |
| Host/Proxy/Domain: | sip.votel.com.au |
| Outbound Proxy: | sip.sip.votel.com.au |
| DTMF Mode: | rfc2833 (or AVT/out of band) |
| Default voice codecs: | G.711 alaw, G.711 ulaw, G.722, G.729a, Opus. (NOTE: Please use 20ms frames or a 'ptime' of 20 for your media. A 'ptime' of 10 is not supported) |
| Default video codecs: | H.264, H.263 |
| SIP Transport: | UDP, TCP or TLS (TLS preferred) |
| SIP port: | 5060 or 50600 (udp, tcp) or 5061 (tls) |
| STUN Server: | stun.votel.com.au (port 3478) |
| VoTel Recursive DNS Servers (for customer use) |
103.212.52.1 139.5.164.1 |
| Firewall Rules: | Allow all traffic from subnets 103.212.52.0/24 (Primary), 139.5.164.0/24 (Failover) and 103.60.99.0/24 (Apps) for UDP portrange 1024-50000 and TCP port 5060 and 5061 |
Many features can be controlled using 'star codes' on your handset. Click here for a full list of available star feature codes.
You can check your voicemail from any Hero Internet phone line by simply dialing *55 on your handset. If you wish to check your voicemail externally from a non-Hero Internet phone then you can dial:
+64-9-242-0000 (or 09-242-0000 inside New Zealand)
You will be prompted for your phone number (which should be in 0xxx format) and then your PIN code. Before you can do this however you will need to assign yourself a PIN number in our customer portal at:
https://portal.votel.com.au/voice/
Simply login and then select the line you want to edit and then under Inbound calls select the Voicemail option to assign a PIN code in the 'Voicemail PIN number:' field. You can also forward voicemails to an email address and setup other options in this page.