Corporate IT Solutions - Michael Dunne
2007-Apr-01 23:16 UTC
[asterisk-users] Best Hardphone (Subjective?)
After working with the Grandstream GXP 2000 series phones, I have decided that I am quite unhappy with their problems, both voice quality, volume, features and others. For their price now, there are plenty of phones to choose from as well. So subjectively what would be the best Hardphone for a small/medium business with multiple line support, BLF, etc. Are the Cisco 7960 the best of the bunch, or Aastra etc? I have just had a GXP start its daily lockup where you come in in the morning and it requires a hard reset, and this is getting a little boring having to keep flashing and carrying on. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070401/a5e66152/attachment.htm
On 4/2/07, Corporate IT Solutions - Michael Dunne < michael@citsolutions.com.au> wrote:> > So subjectively what would be the best Hardphone for a small/medium > business with multiple line support, BLF, etc. >Does _anyone_ read the archives anymore? This is like a weekly question or something. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070401/2fd78f57/attachment.htm
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Corporate IT Solutions - Michael Dunne wrote:> After working with the Grandstream GXP 2000 series phones, I have > decided that I am quite unhappy with their problems, both voice quality, > volume, features and others. For their price now, there are plenty of > phones to choose from as well. > > So subjectively what would be the best Hardphone for a small/medium > business with multiple line support, BLF, etc. > > Are the Cisco 7960 the best of the bunch, or Aastra etc? > > I have just had a GXP start its daily lockup where you come in in the > morning and it requires a hard reset, and this is getting a little > boring having to keep flashing and carrying on.I'm intrigued... I've deployed many GXP2000's now, as has a friend of mine, and we've not seen these sorts of problems ... I'm currently of the opinion that for their cost they actually are a good desk phone... But am I simply looking for trouble? (I've not started to use the BLF features yet though - maybe this is where the issues are?) Gordon
I've deployed about 40 GXP's and also haven't had the issues some are reporting. The one "issue" is if I have to restart the server for any reason I have to reboot all the phones for the BLF to light up properly. This is easily accomplished by a script on the server, allows me to reboot all the phones with one command and takes about 2 minutes. I'm very happy with these phones. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Henderson Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:10 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best Hardphone (Subjective?) On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Corporate IT Solutions - Michael Dunne wrote:> After working with the Grandstream GXP 2000 series phones, I have > decided that I am quite unhappy with their problems, both voice > quality, volume, features and others. For their price now, there are > plenty of phones to choose from as well. > > So subjectively what would be the best Hardphone for a small/medium > business with multiple line support, BLF, etc. > > Are the Cisco 7960 the best of the bunch, or Aastra etc? > > I have just had a GXP start its daily lockup where you come in in the > morning and it requires a hard reset, and this is getting a little > boring having to keep flashing and carrying on.I'm intrigued... I've deployed many GXP2000's now, as has a friend of mine, and we've not seen these sorts of problems ... I'm currently of the opinion that for their cost they actually are a good desk phone... But am I simply looking for trouble? (I've not started to use the BLF features yet though - maybe this is where the issues are?) Gordon _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Somewhere I found a link to gsutil utility that someone wrote. A quick google looks like http://freshmeat.net/projects/gsutil/?branch_id=59227&release_id=219046 is probably the best place to get it. This utility actually has quite a few nifty options, here's a copy of the help: Version 3.0 of GSutil, a GrandStream BudgeTone phone backup, restore and reboot utility. Written by Charles Howes (gsutil@ch.pkts.ca). http://www.pkts.ca/gsutil.shtml Usage: /root/bin/gsutil -[b|d|e|h|r] [-n] [-o] [-p password] address.. -b : reboot -d : dump to stdout -e : show phone firmware versions -r : restore from stdin -n : don't wait for reboot to finish -o : don't translate configuration values -p : password (default: admin) -h, --help : print this help --version : print the version of gsutil As for my script, I just use 'gsutil -bn <list of ip addresses of phones>' in a script I called gsreboot. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:04 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Best Hardphone (Subjective?)> This is easily accomplished by a script on the server, allows me to > reboot all the phones with one command and takes about 2 minutes. I'm> very happy with these phones.How would you feel about sharing that script with the list? I'm sure it'd be of use to many of us here. Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it/chris.html This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Bill Hackensack wrote:> On 4/2/07, *Corporate IT Solutions - Michael Dunne* > <michael@citsolutions.com.au <mailto:michael@citsolutions.com.au>> wrote: > > So subjectively what would be the best Hardphone for a small/medium > business with multiple line support, BLF, etc. > > > Does _anyone_ read the archives anymore? This is like a weekly question > or something.Oh look! Bill is back! -S