An issue has arisen with the VOIP Voicemail.

You cannot turn it off.

Sounds amazing but as this Forum Article shows it is not possible.

Furthmore our answering machine no longer works when connected to the VOIP line.

So an unanswered call goes to Voicemail, where you can set up a message. Which is OK except for a further issue. I do not get a notification that this has occured. I had to call a number to check my messages.

The solution that people are promoting on forums right now is to get the voicemail message emailed to you (in my case my iinet email address, which is not used for anything else). The message is attached as a wave file to the email.

So to check messages I get home, go to the computer (which I have left on to speed this up) and refresh the web page pointing at your email.

Why iinet do not allow Voicemail to be disabled stuns me.

I think that some answering machines will work on a VOIP line, but ours (a Telstra one) is a dud.

Not a deal breaker, but I would have liked a bit more info on that going in...