asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Fine Tuning

Hello all,

We've been using our Asterisk system live for about a month now and I'm 
looking to tuning a few things. First, is echo, I receive a fair amount of 
echo during the first 10-15 seconds of incoming calls.

Next is a very weird problem. We have serveral Polycom IP300's and one 
Budgetone phone. It seems that if we unplug & move the Budgetone (which 
happens a fair amount as it is the phone we move to normally unreachable 
areas, some of the Polycoms will no longer work properly, the caller can hear 
us but we can't hear them. Very odd that the Budgetone triggers this but it 
is fairly consistent so we're close to just ditching the Budgetone.

Sound quality, when the volume is maxed on our Polycom phones, the sound is 
jittery and you can here what sounds like some sort of artifacts from 
compression or something like that, in some of the worst cases you can even 
hear random little beeps in the background.

Finally, all incoming calls seem to be a touch quite, basically the volume is 
always maxed on our Polycoms, is there a simple way to increase the incoming 
volume of all calls?

If anyone can help or point me in the right direction on these, it would be 
much appreciated. I have gone through the wiki and not found much on these 
issues.

Thanks,
Pete

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 11:00 -0500, Peter Osborne wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We've been using our Asterisk system live for about a month now and
I'm
> looking to tuning a few things. First, is echo, I receive a fair amount of 
> echo during the first 10-15 seconds of incoming calls.
> 
> Next is a very weird problem. We have serveral Polycom IP300's and one 
> Budgetone phone. It seems that if we unplug & move the Budgetone (which
> happens a fair amount as it is the phone we move to normally unreachable 
> areas, some of the Polycoms will no longer work properly, the caller can
hear
> us but we can't hear them. Very odd that the Budgetone triggers this
but it
> is fairly consistent so we're close to just ditching the Budgetone.
> 
> Sound quality, when the volume is maxed on our Polycom phones, the sound is
> jittery and you can here what sounds like some sort of artifacts from 
> compression or something like that, in some of the worst cases you can even
> hear random little beeps in the background.
> 
> Finally, all incoming calls seem to be a touch quite, basically the volume
is
> always maxed on our Polycoms, is there a simple way to increase the
incoming
> volume of all calls?
> 
> If anyone can help or point me in the right direction on these, it would be
> much appreciated. I have gone through the wiki and not found much on these 
> issues.
Care to mention what PSTN hardware you are using?
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>