Hi, I am thinking about getting some of these phones to use with my Asterisk system.. So I would be interested to hear from the people who have tired and tested these phones.. What is the voice quality like using alaw/ulaw or G.729?? Are there any problems getting them to play nicely with Asterisk?? How sturdy is the construction (reciever, handset, buttons, cable connections, etc..) ?? How do they compare to the SNOM phones?? (I have used a SNOM 200) And anything else you can think of... :) Thanks.. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze
Hi, I am interested too in a comparision with a much more expensive Cisco 7960, especially from the quality of the voice point of view. Thanks, Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "WipeOut ." <wipeout@linuxmail.org> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream BudgeTone - opinions??> Hi, > > I am thinking about getting some of these phones to use with my Asterisksystem..> > So I would be interested to hear from the people who have tired and testedthese phones..> > What is the voice quality like using alaw/ulaw or G.729?? > > Are there any problems getting them to play nicely with Asterisk?? > > How sturdy is the construction (reciever, handset, buttons, cableconnections, etc..) ??> > How do they compare to the SNOM phones?? (I have used a SNOM 200) > > And anything else you can think of... :) > > Thanks.. > -- > ______________________________________________ > http://www.linuxmail.org/ > Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr > > Powered by Outblaze > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >
Brancaleoni Matteo
2003-Jun-21 02:40 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream BudgeTone - opinions??
Hi. We've bought 20 of them (102) for a customer, and planning to use them as our cheap sip phone solution. However, here my answers:> What is the voice quality like using alaw/ulaw or G.729??Never tried g729, with alaw / ulaw is perfect. Too bad they still don't have gsm...> Are there any problems getting them to play nicely with Asterisk??Nope. I get them working is few minutes (just the time to create a sip.conf entry and configure the phone via the web interface).> How sturdy is the construction (reciever, handset, buttons, cable connections, etc..) ??I think is pretty ok, beside the body of the phone, seems to be to be too much light... I prefer a stable and a bit heavy phone body. Buttons are big, so very easy to 'click' them, cables seems ok.> How do they compare to the SNOM phones?? (I have used a SNOM 200)The price is much less ;) The snom is more heavy (so more stable on your desk), have a better manager interface, more lines, and gsm ! Also is black. Oh, also more ring tones ;) Beside that, the budgetone is ok for most uses. The lightweight body isn't a real problem, and in general is nice to see. Has some software issues too, like that it lacks supervised transfer (but that's going to be fixed), and I got problems with rfc2833 dtmf (being double recognized by asterisk. Switching to inband solved that). I'm now using the latest firmware available on grandstream website. However, these're things that could (and will) be solved via updates.> And anything else you can think of... :)The firmware update process is very easy (the snom update is a little more complicated), but lacks a central configuration (that's very useful when you have many phones on a lan), or at least it should be able to have a central configuration via tftp, but didn't find any docs 'bout that. Also it has echo canceller (g165/g168) ;-) In general , they're very valuable phones, where the most important work they must do is to make and receive calls , and no fancy functions are needed ;)> Thanks..de nada Matteo.