Thread: Nortel IP phone on BSNL

Hi all !

This is a great forum - I'm learning a lot so far being a older techie! Thanks for all of your tips.

I just got a BSNL connection in my Ahmedabad home (good or bad is another topic!). I brought my Nortel IP phone that I use in my office in Singapore here to create a virtual office setting.

I've configured the Nortel IP phone (DHCP = 0) but when it tries to reach the Singapore server it says "Server Unreachable". I did some troubleshooting and found it could be one of two things (althought it could be something else!):

1. the DNS address that I'm using is the Singapore DNS (StarHub is the ISP). I don't know the BSNL DNS - maybe if I use that it, might work. I tried an open DNS 208.67.222.222 but that didn't change anything.
2. when I ping the Singapore DNS, I get 310ms (on average) which according to my IT guy is pretty slow - i set the retries on the phone to 5, but it still can't find the server.

PS: I have a Vonage IP phone from the USA here and it works fine - it has it's own router.

Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks all!

Chandresh

Hey hows your vonage phone working here??

i mean the things in India are they configurable to that from states?

the Vonage was too easy to hook up - my father just plugged in the router to the BSNL modem an connected the phone and viola! all was good... except that people call us in the middle of the night!

all was good... except that people call us in the middle of the night!

:lol::lol:

^^ @chandresh :lol:

does your other phone get an ip? thats important.. you can usually pickup your phone and dial a specific no to find out that..