Voip Deals Blog

Yesterday (May 19th) the phonepower.com website underwent a site makeover with a Web 2.0 look and a green color scheme. The design change, though nice, is not the change that excited us the most. With the design change, PhonePower announced two new features for their new and existing voip customers, that we think is worth writing home about.

The new features are

Voicemail Auto-Delete

If you are PhonePower voip phone service user, you may have noticed that your voicemails remains in your voicemail box for ever and when it gets full, callers can’t leave a voicemail. So you needed to log on to your account and delete some voice mails manually to make room.
(more on how to access your PhonePower Voicemails from any where)

Well, that will be a thing of the past soon.

From May 31st you can use the new auto-delete function for voicemails. Once you turn it on, there’s no need to manually delete old voicemails. Simply set the number of days before deletion, and you’re done.

Free Softphone

Now you can take your Phone Power phone service service with you on your laptop, no matter where you go? As of May 19th, you can download the PhonePower softphone free from www.phonepower.com/account. The softphone software works on Windows pcs only as of now. Using a headset you can make or receive calls with your Phone Power number. And most importantly there is no additional cost involved.

I recently signed up with PhonePower for my home phone service. My Packet8 contract was nearing its end. So thought I will try PhonePower. So far the experience has been very good.

Signing up was easy and quick. I got the 1 Year free Offer ($199 for 2 Years of service and a free cloned line). The box arrived soon, though I was not in a hurry. I still had a few month of service left from my previous service. I waited till my number got ported to PhonePower.

Setting up the Adapter:
There are two ways any voip adapter can be set up.

1. Connect the adapter to the internet modem. Then connect your router to the voip adapter.
2. The 2nd way is to connect the router to the internet modem and then connect the voip adapter to the router like all your other devices (pcs etc).

PhonePower instruction manual describes only the 1st way, but I prefer the 2nd way. All you have to remember is, you are plugging your voip adapter exactly the same way as your pc is plugged in to the router.

Now the steps:

1. Power off your modem/router
2. Plug the ethernet cable that comes in the packet to back of your router (exactly as your pc is connected to the router).
3. Plug the other end of the ethernet cable to the WAN port (not the LAN port, this is very important) of the phonepower adapter. If you plug it to the LAN port it won’t work
4. Plug the phone line to the adapter’s Phone1 jack and the other end to your phone
5. Power on the modem/router and then the PhonePower router.
6. Wait for 5 minutes, the PhonePower adapter will take a while to start up fully.
7. Pick up the phone and dial a number. If it works, you are all set.
8. Setting Up the Cloned Line (if your service came with the 2nd Clone line)
   1. Sign on to the PhonePower website using your user id and password you created when you signed up.
   2. Click on Modify Services on the left menu bar
   3. On the next page Click on the ‘Manage Cloned Line’ button
   4. On the next page click on the ‘Assign’ button
   5. Connect your 2nd phone to the Phone2 jack of the PhonePower adapter.