Configure the Linksys WIP300 Wireless G phone

The Linksys WIP300 is an 802.11G telephone.  So if you have a wireless router on your network this phone can be carried around the house or the office with you.  Think of it as a cellphone but 90% cheaper to talk on.  I use it on business trips in airports and at restaurants that have free wireless internet access.  It is fantastic.

With some experience it is easier to configure this telephone through its "web interface".  If this is your first time configuring an IP phone it might be easier for you to use the keypad on the telephone.

using the joystick click these choices:

• click menu
• click profile
• click select
• click network profile
• click the first listing, ignore all the choices they give you.  They will only confuse you.  You are going to rename this choice anyway.
• click option
• click edit  (notice one of the choices below 'edit' is 'rename'.  You will do that soon.
• click select
• click wireless settings
• click ESSID
• click Site survey
• after the site survey, select your wireless router
• click back
• leave data rate as 'auto' ;  click 'security' if you have wireless security on your router
• if you have a secure network enter your security codes and select ok.
• now go back to where we are going to edit the 'profile' and select "IP settings"
• select "DHCP"  (if you needed one of the other choices you would not need to read this document).
• now select "account choice" and select 'default'  (you will rename this later)
• Now, with the menu and the back button get back to "profile" and select "SIP account"
• click edit
• click phone number;  enter your JTKVoIP virtual telephone number
• click Auth. ID   enter the same virtual telephone number again
• click Auth. Password;  enter your password
• click SIP Domain;  this should be sip.jtkvoip.net
•  Proxy address:  this should be BLANK
• click  'advanced'
• click  Outbound Address
• enter sip.jtkvoip.net again
• You have done the minimum you need to do.  I recommend that you rename your 'profile' with something like your virtual number and rename your SIP account with this number.  Because you might want to have this telephone setup to work with other numbers in the future.
• Now get all the way back to the welcome screen and find the menu item for 'settings'
• select 'settings' then go to 'display settings'
• then go to 'Config. Tip' and turn it on.  This will be very helpful.  It will tell you what a setting currently is without having to go in and prepare to edit it.  I love this feature.

Now, to use this IP phone 'on the road' is pretty easy.  For example at your business lunch restaraunt that has free wireless internet access; the first time you go in this restaraunt you want to set up a new 'profile' and name it with the name of the restaraunt (or airport waiting room etc).  Then you will go through the menus to get to the ESSID site survey like we did before to set the phone for the wireless in this airport.  The next time you go to the restaraunt, or go back to your home wireless network, it will only take a couple clicks to get the phone active again.  After  you get comfortable with this telephone you might want to set it up the way I did.  I have one profile that is one of my free virtual numbers.  I set my main business number to simultaneously ring (in the forwarding menu of your account log-in) my main telephones and this wireless IP phone.  So I do not have to run to the desk phone to answer it.   The next trick is when I go on a trip out of town I simply unplug my Linksys PAP2 adapter for the home phones and then in the WIP300 phone I select the profile in it that uses my office virtual number.  This way all my outgoing calls go out on my unlimited plan and the caller ID shows the president of JTK Communications is calling!

last update 2007-11-12