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Personal VoIP Gateway
SKG-300
User Manual
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Copyright Copyright (C) 2005 PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. The products and programs described in this User’s Manual are licensed products of PLANET Technology, This User’s Manual contains proprietary information protected by copyright, and this User’s Manual and all accompanying hardware, software, and documentation are copyrighted. No part of this User’s Manual may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable f
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Index Chapter 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................4 SKG-300 Features ............................................................................................................4 Package contents ..............................................................................................................4 System requirements.......................................................................
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Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing SKG-300 Personal VoIP Gateway. PLANET provides several types of Skype solution to meet various demands. As illustrated, customers can use any home phone for both Internet-based and standard telephony, without the need for special phone, headsets or microphones. Following the wizard to install software, customers can easily dial up or receive Skype or PSTN calls from one handset; through a simple setting of Call forward feature, customers
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Quick Installation Guide CD-ROM with User’s Manual, Driver and Utility System requirements Minimum System Requirements Microsoft Windows 2000/XP Pentium 400MHz CPU or equivalent 128MB RAM 10MB free Disk Space CD-ROM drive Internet connection (any broadband: ADSL or Cable ) Standard telephone landline subscription (PSTN) Skype™ version 1.3 or higher must be installed 5
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Chapter 2 SKG-300 Setup 2.1 Hardware Details LED Display LED Indicators Descriptions Steady on indicates SKG-300 has correctly connected to the USB port of LINK your PC Steady on indicates SKG-300 is communicating with PSTN line, or wait for PSTN calling at standby mode Steady on indicates SKG-300 is communicating with VoIP line VoIP Port Connection 6
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Port Descriptions For connecting to PSTN line Line For connecting to a phone set Phone For connecting to a computer or laptop USB 2.2 SKG-300 utility setup Do not connect the SKG-300 adapter to your computer until instructed to do so Note: by the installation wizard. The following instructions will guide you to through the process of installing the PLANET Personal VoIP Gateway SKG-300. The installation procedure is to: • Install Skype™ (step 1 below) • Start the SKG-300 SW
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Then you will see the End User License Agreement. Click the “I have read …” checkbox and press the I Agree button as shown below. Wait until you see the following popup and press the OK button. Connect the USB cable to the SKG-300 adapter USB port as shown below: The other end of the USB cable must be connected to a USB port on your computer as shown below, or to an AC Powered USB hub. 8
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Note: The SKG-300 Adapter MUST not be connected to a bus powered USB hub. You will see the following Windows New Hardware Found Wizard. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) and press the Next button, input the installation program location and press Next button. The installation will continue and you will see the following screen. 9
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When you see the following screen, press the Finish button. Then you will see the following Windows New Hardware Found Wizard screen. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) and press the Next button, input the installation program location and press Next button. The installation will continue and you will see the following screen. 10
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When you see the following screen, press the Continue Anyway button. When you will see the following screen, select the option, “allow this program to use Skype” and press the OK button. 11
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When you see the following screen, press the Finish button. STEP 3: When the installation completes you should see the following message appear near your system tray and a new telephone icon (circled in red below) in your system tray as shown below. The telephone icon indicates that the SKG-300 software is installed and running and that you can start making calls via Skype™ and the SKG-300 adapter. You will see a new program group named “Planet Personal VoIP Gateway”, ac
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STEP 4: Connect a standard telephone handset to the SKG-300 phone jack using a telephone cable as shown below STEP 5: Connect a telephone cable between the SKG-300 line jack and a wall jack as shown below. Note that this is only required for making regular phone calls or for forwarding Skype calls to your mobile (or other off-site) phone or for toll bypass applications. 13
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You final configuration should resemble the following. 14
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Chapter 3 SKG-300 Configuration 3.1 Enable SKG-300 In order to use SKG-300 and its features, (1) the SKG-300 adapter must be plugged into the PC, (2) a telephone handset must be plugged into the SKG-300 adapter, (3) the SKG-300 adapter must be connected 1 to the telephone wall jack and (4) the SKG-300 agent must be running (see green telephone in the Windows System Tray). This is only required for making regular phone calls or for forwarding Skype calls Note: to your mobile (or ot
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You may see the following screen, select the option, “allow this program to use Skype” and press the OK button. You should now see the SKGAgent in the Windows System Tray as shown below. You are now ready to use the Planet Personal VoIP Gateway. SKGAgent States When the SKG-300 adapter is installed and the software is installed properly, then you will see a green phone in the system tray as shown below. If the SKGAgent is running and the SKG-300 adapter is removed or
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When the SKGAgent is not running, there is no phone in the system tray. 3.2 Testing SKG-300 Skype provides a useful feature to test your connection. It is called Echo123. If you send “callme” in a chat with echo123, the echo123 service will call you and let you leave a message which will be played back to you. This will help you verify that the SKG-300 adapter, SKG-300 driver and the telephone are all connected and installed properly. Add Echo123 to your Skype contact list from the S
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You will see the following chat screen and you should enter “callme” and press the Enter key on your keyboard. Within 10-20 seconds, you should see the following screen, and the telephone connected to the SKG-300 adapter should ring. Pick up the handset and follow the instructions. The Echo Test Service will ask you to leave a message which will be played back immediately. This will help you verify that the SKG-300 adapter, SKG-300 driver and the telephone handset are all connected
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When the test concludes you can press OK on the following screen. and then press Finish on the following screen. 3.3 Making and Receiving Calls You can continue to use the telephone handset connected to the SKG-300 adapter to make and receive standard telephone calls as you used without any change. 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. Wh
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call, dialing as per the SkypeOut™ recommended dialing sequence, 00 + country code + telephone number (e.g. 00 886 2 22199518) 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 (as described in the next section) to each person you would like to call from the SKG-300 connected handset. Then simply pick up the handset, press ##, to indicate to the SKG-300 adapter that this is not a standard call b
