Making and Receiving Calls

You can continue to use the telephone handset connected to the AU-600 Gateway to make and receive standard telephone calls. To make a standard phone call, just pick up the handset and dial as you normally would. To answer (receive) a standard phone call just pick up the handset when the phone rings.

 

When you receive an incoming Skype call, the handset connected to the AU-600 Gateway will ring. If you handset supports Alphanumeric Caller ID, then the Skype username will be displayed on the handset’s screen where the standard caller ID information is displayed. To answer the call, just pick up the handset and speak as you normally would. To end the call, simply hang up the handset as you normally would.

 

If you have SkypeOut, you can use the AU-600 connected handset to make SkypeOut calls by picking up the handset, pressing ##, to indicate to the AU-600 Gateway that this is not a standard call but a Skype call, dialing as per the SkypeOut recommended dialing sequence, 00 + country code + telephone number (e.g. 001 617 555 1212) and pressing the asterisk (*) key.

 

In order to make a call to a Skype contact, you will need to use the Skype program to assign a speed dial to each person you would like to call from the AU-600 connected handset. Then simply pick up the handset, press ##, to indicate to the AU-600 adapter that this is not a standard call but a Skype call, you will hear a new dial-tone, press the speed dial number (e.g. 22) and then press the asterisk (*) key.

 

See instructions for setting up Skype speed dialing.