Irish Network Tone Settings - For Linksys / Sipura phones and ATAs

Solair

Hi,

If anyone is configuring their Linksys Sipura phone or ATAs here are the tone settings which are equivalent to those in use in Ireland on eircom digital exchanges:

These are the major tones used in Ireland, the other supplemental tones generated by the router / VoIP phone can be left in their US standard settings, as they are either not encountered on the Irish network or, are identical to the US standards. Many of the confirmation tones etc are usually voice prompts/messages on an eircom line.

Call Progress Tones for Republic of Ireland:

Dial Tone: 425@-10; 10(*/0/1)

Outside Dial Tone/Second Dial Tone: 400@-10; 10(*/0/1)

or, alternatively, for a higher pitch tone: 440@-10; 10(*/0/1)

Busy Tone: 425@-10; 10(0.5/0.5/1)

Reorder Tone: 425@-10; 10(.25/.25/1)

Ring Back Tone: 400@-19,450@-19;*(.4/.2/1+2,.4/.2/1+2,2/0/0)

MWI Dial Tone: 425@-19;2(.1/.1/1);28(*/0/1)

You can find these settings in the regional preference pane - you may need to click advanced and administrator log in.

malachy47

Thanks Solair,

Very useful and much appreciated.

probe

Why should one use eircom's bastard melange of tones on one's VoIP phone system?

eircom still use the non-standard, antiquated, British ringing tone, and the ITU-T dial and busy tones used elsewhere in the world (aside from North America and Australia).

Why not simply select Germany or Switzerland for example in a VoIP set-up and you will hear all the standard call progress tones - (unless you subscribe to a backstreet VoIP service provider who overrides them)? When you have no choice anyway..... Aside from dumping the VoIP provider.

The EUR 50 note is brown. It is a standard. Why get a crayon out and colour it green? (I don't think anybody will be fooled into thinking it is a 100 EUR note).

1km = 1000 m. Why create an Irish km which is only 932 m long?

eircom's crappy tone system is another symptom of how sick and mixed up the company is!

slx

probe wrote: »

Why should one use eircom's bastard melange of tones on one's VoIP phone system?

eircom still use the non-standard, antiquated, British ringing tone, and the ITU-T dial and busy tones used elsewhere in the world (aside from North America and Australia).

Why not simply select Germany or Switzerland for example in a VoIP set-up and you will hear all the standard call progress tones - (unless you subscribe to a backstreet VoIP service provider who overrides them)? When you have no choice anyway..... Aside from dumping the VoIP provider.

The EUR 50 note is brown. It is a standard. Why get a crayon out and colour it green? (I don't think anybody will be fooled into thinking it is a 100 EUR note).

1km = 1000 m. Why create an Irish km which is only 932 m long?

eircom's crappy tone system is another symptom of how sick and mixed up the company is!

Eh perhaps because they're what people are familiar with?!

Tones vary quite a bit across Europe, there's nothing particularly weird about eircom's tones other than the ring tone being British.

ITU tones aren't used across the rest of the world, they're just a recommendation, which is not always followed. I can think of plenty of examples e.g. UK, Netherlands, Italy, to name but a few that do not use the ITU tones properly.

I wouldn't get quite so passionate about it or think it's particularly indicative of anything to be quite honest.

Changing the ringing tone in countries like Ireland, the UK, Australia/NZ, Hong Kong, the US and Canada to the ITU flat tone as used on the continent is likely to be quite confusing for end users, as it sounds like a busy tone to many people here because we associate a warbling tone with ringing.

The flat ITU ring tone used on the continent has been in use for many decades, there's nothing more or less antiquated about it than the tones used in Ireland or the UK.

It's just a question of what you're used to!

Personally, I prefer the eircom ring/busy tone set up or the North American system to the standard continental stuff at least you know instantly when the phone is ringing and when it's busy and don't have to listen for the tone really. If it warbles it's ringing, if it's a flat tone, it's busy / something's wrong.

Also, the ring tone sounds like a phone ringing, which is more intuitive than a flat 425hz tone.

If it ain't broke, why fix it ?

I don't really think many people have any difficulty understanding the Irish, British or American ring tones, while I do think a lot of Americans, Irish people and Brits hang up on European ringing tones. I've lived on the continent and I've had that experience. e.g. a US company telling me that my phone was permanently busy, having hung up on me 8 times.