How to Set Up Voicemail on Basic Talk Phone Number?

One of the basic talk features is basic talk voicemail. Let us see, how to set up voicemail. In order to configure the voicemail for your number, you need to have basic talk login. You can complete the basic talk setup using your home phone number. Let us explore the each option one after another.

When your home phone number is active, the voicemail feature is activated by default. Online account provides the access to enable or disable them. You can also decrease or increase the voicemail pickup time.

Steps to Setup Voicemail Feature Using Online Account

1. Use your basictalk login for online account and open it.
2. Navigate to the "Summary" tab. 
3. Choose "Features & Setting"
4. Select "Voicemail Settings"
5. Go to Voicemail and click on the button to turn off and turn on.

Read: How to Reset Voicemail PIN

Basic | Initial Voicemail Basic Talk Setup Using Basictalk Phone Number

1. Using BasicTalk service phone number call Voicemail.
2. Dial * 1 2 3. (You must hear the tone every time you press the button.)
3. The temporary password is 1 2 3 4. Enter the password when prompted to enter the Voicemail Password/PIN.
4. Enter your new Password/PIN. Password/PIN must be 4 to 15 digits.
5. Re-enter your Password/PIN and press # to confirm.
6. Record your name announcement when prompted and press #.
7. Record your personal greeting when prompted and press #.  

Basic | Initial Voicemail Basic Talk Setup Using Any Other Phone

1. From a non-basic talk phone, dial your BasicTalk phone number and press the * (asterisk) when Voicemail answers.
2. When prompted, enter the temporary password 1 2 3 4. 
3. Enter your new Password/PIN. Password/PIN must be 4 to 15 digits.
4. Re-enter your Password/PIN and press # to confirm.
5. Record your name announcement when prompted and press #.
6. Record your personal greeting when prompted and press #.  

Watch the Video Tutorial to Setup BasicTalk Voicemail

Read: Listen to Voice Messages From Another Phone

2 Easy Ways to Change Basic Talk Phone Number

Basic Talk Phone Number gives you access to dial any phone number within US. Let us see the information about How to Change My Basic Talk Phone Number in this space. Even though, Basic talk support customers via chat customers service, we shall explore the option available on online account.


You can change the phone number in 2 ways:

• Changing your current phone number and obtain a new number.
• Transferring your phone number to basic talk fro another carrier.

In either of the choice, we do not have the access to customize | select phone numbers. The phone number will be assigned automatically based on the area and exchange code we choose.

Steps to Change Basic Talk Phone Number From Online Account

Getting a New Phone Number

1. Login to your BasicTalk Online Account
2. Navigate to the "Summary" tab.
3. Select the option "Change Phone Number"
4. You will get the instructions online and have your number changed.

Initiating Number Transfer From Previous Carrier

Follow the instruction above to change your home phone number. You will have the option to choose your existing phone number. This option will initiate number transfer from your current carrier.

Note: Please note the information that not all phone numbers are transferable. Your number to be transferred must be eligible to be transferred to basic talk service.

Ping google.com: Troubleshoot Audio Issues by Running a Ping Test

Ping google.com to check whether your Internet connection is connected and working. With this test, we can troubleshoot audio issues on your basic talk home phone service. It primarily checks the time taken to send and receive packet data. Audio issues on your phone may due to several reasons. If you have checked other related issues, we need to troubleshoot this issue by elimination method.

Here we will perform the test with google.com. Pinging google service the best option because it is a public website and also runs without any down-time.  The command will be ping www.google.com. You can also check with any websites or using their IP address. The websites you are about to use must be a working site.

Steps to Run a Ping Test 

You can run ping test on your PC | Laptop | Computer that is connected to internet. The steps below will help you.

PC/Computer/Laptop with Windows OS (Operating System): If you are running windows OS computer, the steps below will help you. We have provided below the steps for windows XP, Windows Vista, windows 7, windows 8 and windows 10. There will be only few variations on these versions.

Steps to Run Ping Test on Windows Operating System:

Windows 10:

1. Click the magnifying glass icon on the left side bottom and type "CMD" and hit enter button on your keyboard.
2. In the best match search results, select the app named "Command Prompt"
3. A black background with white text and blinking cursor will pop up. This is called command prompt.
4. Here type the format "Ping" "Space" "-l 600" "-n 100" "website address" and hit enter. It will look like Ping -l 600 -n 100 google.com
5. Wait for the test results to display.

Note: In the above example, -l 600 means the number of bytes we are testing. -n 100 means number of times we are pinging. This commands will ping google.com 100 times with 600 bytes of data.

Windows 8:

1. Place the cursor on the right hand side corner of the screen. You will get charm bar. Click on search.
2. Search "CMD" in the search bar and hit enter. 
3. Click on the result with the cmd box and the command prompt will appear.
4. Here type the format "Ping" "Space" "-l 600" "-n 100" "site address" and hit enter. It will look like Ping -l 600 -n 100 www.google.com
5. Wait for the test results to display if the site is successfully pinged.

Windows 7 and Windows Vista:

1. Open the start menu by clicking on the windows logo button on the left side bottom.
2. Type "CMD" in the box and hit enter on your computer.
3. The command prompt will open.
4. Here type the format "Ping" "Space" "-l 600" "-n 100" "web address" and hit enter. It will look like Ping -l 600 -n 100 google.com
5. Wait for the test results to display. Will appear only when pinged successfully.

Windows XP:

1. Click on the start button and then select Run option.
2. Enter the command "cmd" and hit enter on your keyboard.
3. The command prompt will appear.
4. Here type the format "Ping" "Space" "-l 600" "-n 100" "website address" and hit enter. It will look like Ping -l 600 -n 100 google.com
5. Wait for the test results to display.

Steps to Run Ping Test on Mac OS

1. On your mac computer, hit the Toolbar and click Go.
2. Select the Utilities folder from the options
3. Double-click the Terminal icon.
4. Type ping -s 600 -c 100 followed by an google.com.
5. For example: ping -s 600 -c 100 google.com.
6. Press Enter to get the pinged results.

Reading and Understanding the Ping Results:

The ping results for both Mac and Windows will be the same. We need to look at the factors like request timed out. If there is more occurrences of request timed out, then the issue is related to your Internet connection. It is possible that you may not be connected to internet. To troubleshot further, you need to run "Trace Route Command"

After running the above test results, you can send them to others by copying and pasting them on a ms word or paint application. Hope the steps below helped you, please enter your comments below if you have any idea or issue you may face while running ping test for your basic talk home phone service.

How to Calculate Your Total Costs of Using Basic Talk Home Phone Service?

You can calculate the total cost of using basic talk home phone service using the cost calculation tool. All you need to do is visit http://www.basictalk.com/. Look for the cost calculation tool on the right side couln of the website. Just enter your zip code and click on calculate. The total cost for using Basic Talk will be displayed.

For example, let us calculate the cost of using basic talk phone for the state of Arizona.

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How Can I Contact Basic Talk Customer Service Number?

Is your basic talk phone not working? Is your basic talk phone not yet activated and looking for the option to Contact Basic Talk Customer Service Number? Unfortunately, basic talk does not have toll free number.

Instead of dialing basic talk customer support number, you can send them and email or chat online from your online account to have your issue resolved. It may be of technical or billing issue.


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What is Basic Talk ?

Basic talk is a VOIP based phone service that provides the access to dial the phone numbers anywhere in US using your internet connection. This home phone service is available for $9.99 per month with applicable taxes and fees.

The Basic Talk phone service provides crystal clear  audio quality that makes the service unique and reliable. There is no annual contract and yo can port your number from your current service provider to basic talk for free.