asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Quick summary of Grandstream survey results

Here is a quick tally of the various things people
asked for..

I'm going to go thru the list and weight the results
based on my scale of 1-10.   This is just a count of
each "item", otherwords how many times that item
came up.   Some things I considered as bugs and lumped
them as bug-fixes

For the various requests for codec's I broke out which
ones people where asking for.


low-bw-codec    15
Bug-Fixes       13
tftp-config     8
Speaker-Vol     7
Headset-Jack    6
GSM             6
New-Feat        5
Assited-Xfer    5
LCD-Issues      4
ILBC            4
IAX             4
100MB-ports     4
Wall-Mount      3
POE             3
Lock-menus      3
Conf-Button     3
Ringtones       2
More-Buttons    2
Case            2
Speex           1
SIP-Issues      1
Ringer-Vol      1

> 100MB-ports     4
The list looks great but I just want to make mention of this one 
specifically -- Putting an El-Crappo 100mbit switch in there isn't going to 
do any better than what the BudgetTone 102 does now -- if they are going to 
do this, please please please encourage them to put a QUALITY switch in 
there (one that can sustain 100mbps) -- no use in even trying if it's going 
to degrade the network connection to the computer and make me install dual 
wiring anyway...

Thank you for taking the time to post the list and gather up responses...  
These are decent phones and could go a LONG way with a few adjustments.

Regards,
Andrew

>  John wrote:
>Here is a quick tally of the various things people
>asked for..
suggestion: set up a WEB vote screen that we can go and actually vote.
Regards,
Uriel

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[mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of John Brown
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:13 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Quick summary of Grandstream survey results


Here is a quick tally of the various things people
asked for..

I'm going to go thru the list and weight the results
based on my scale of 1-10.   This is just a count of
each "item", otherwords how many times that item
came up.   Some things I considered as bugs and lumped
them as bug-fixes

For the various requests for codec's I broke out which
ones people where asking for.


low-bw-codec    15
Bug-Fixes       13
tftp-config     8
Speaker-Vol     7
Headset-Jack    6
GSM             6
New-Feat        5
Assited-Xfer    5
LCD-Issues      4
ILBC            4
IAX             4
100MB-ports     4
Wall-Mount      3
POE             3
Lock-menus      3
Conf-Button     3
Ringtones       2
More-Buttons    2
Case            2
Speex           1
SIP-Issues      1
Ringer-Vol      1
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I'm not sure if it would be really practical to have a built in switch
(although useful) within the phones. You really don't want your phone
worrying too much about switching other ethernet frames whilst a call is in
progress, you will probably then run in to queueing problems as you need to
ensure your voice frames get priority.

Even with the Cisco 79xx phones, you get significantly degraded performance on
the PC side 100bT interface, most likely due to the lack of switching power. We
found in our office enviroment that users soon began complaining of slower
network connections and so we ended up reverting back to dedicated switch ports
for the phones.

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Kohlsmith
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Sent: 22/10/03 04:18
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Quick summary of Grandstream survey results
> 100MB-ports     4
The list looks great but I just want to make mention of this one 
specifically -- Putting an El-Crappo 100mbit switch in there isn't going
to 
do any better than what the BudgetTone 102 does now -- if they are going
to 
do this, please please please encourage them to put a QUALITY switch in 
there (one that can sustain 100mbps) -- no use in even trying if it's
going 
to degrade the network connection to the computer and make me install
dual 
wiring anyway...

Thank you for taking the time to post the list and gather up
responses...  
These are decent phones and could go a LONG way with a few adjustments.

Regards,
Andrew
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