Sankaranand Balaradjou

Tag: airtel

  • Activate Airtel Voicemail service for free on your Prepaid Mobile

    Airtel provides Free Voicemail service for all prepaid customers but unfortunately no one is aware of it. Even Airtel website or customer care representative is unaware of it.

    Activation by Call Code:

    • Call *321*671# for Activation
    • Call *321*673# for Deactivation

    Activation by SMS Code:

    • START VMS to 54321 for Activation
    • STOP VMS to 54321 for Deactivation

    Voicemail Account Management:

    To access your Voicemail Account Management, call Dial 52555 from your registered Airtel Prepaid Mobile. For the very first time, it will prompt you to set a 4 digit passord. Next time you need to enter the password to access your profile settings.

    With your account Management, you can do the following things

    1. Change your language presence
    2. Set your Own Custom Voicemail Message
    3. Hear, Save and Delete the received voice mail messages
    4. Change Voice mail box name

    You can press the following numbers to perform action on your current running Voicemails

    • Delete – 3
    • Reply – 4
    • Save – 5
    • Previous Voicemail – 6
    • Replay Again – 7
    • Next Voicemail – 8
    • Settings – 9

    Settings Page:

    • When you login to setting, Press 2 to change language presence
    • Rename Mailbox Name – 3
    • Change Password – 4
    • Hear or Change current welcome message – 7
    • Remove current Welcome Message – 8

    Let me know if you have any issues in activating the services. Enjoy ignoring those unwanted calls 🙂

     

  • Resolving DNS Issues with Airtel Broadband

    Resolving DNS Issues with Airtel Broadband

    If you are an Airtel broadband user and face DNS Error Redirection or DNS Resolving Error like the one below then most probably your network adapter is configured to automatically obtain DNS server from your service provider. The Modem acts as a DNS Server and sometimes in most circumstance the DNS Error Redirection of your ISP may cause some problem and you end-up with the screen below. I too had this problem for a very long time and tried even other third party DNS Service like Open DNS and Google Public DNS but still i face those issues. After using the ISP’s own DNS Server address in my network adapter i could resolve the issue and browse without any flaws.

    By default the problem should be resolved using any third party DNS Server but unfortunately the thing doesn’t work for me and force me to use their own DNS Server. At home i use OPEN DNS which works like a charm. Anyways try to change your DNS Server using these steps with the DNS Address of Airtel Below:

    Airtel Broadband

     Preferred DNS Server: 202.56.215.28

    Alternative DNS Server: 202.56.215.29

    Hope this resolves the DNS Issue with Airtel. If you are still not able to resolve it, then the next step would be to ring up the Customer Care @ 121 from your Airtel Landline. Alternatively if you would like to try third party DNS Service like Open DNS and Google DNS, then use the ip address below

    Open DNS

    Preferred DNS Address :  208.67.222.222

    Secondary DNS Address: 208.67.220.220

    Google Public DNS

    Preferred DNS Address : 8.8.8.8

    Secondary DNS Address: 8.8.4.4

    If you live in India then i would suggest using Open DNS which have faster results than Google Public DNS.