Is anyone out there using any of the newer linksys phones since Cisco took over? I am more specifically looking at the spa-941 & 942's. Just curious about call quality, programability, and functionality with asterisk. I have read through the literature, but would like some real world feedback. Thanks
I have had a 941 for a couple of years. It works great for daily use at the office and I'm quite pleased with it. On 9/23/07, Robert Webb <lists at ropeguru.com> wrote:> Is anyone out there using any of the newer linksys phones since Cisco > took over? I am more specifically looking at the spa-941 & 942's. Just > curious about call quality, programability, and functionality with asterisk. > > I have read through the literature, but would like some real world feedback. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
I've installed them in a number of sites. The phones are good and easy to provision. If you need a good speakerphone then choose another phone. If there is something specific you need to know let me know. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Robert Webb Sent: Monday, 24 September 2007 3:13 AM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Anyone use the Linksys phones? Is anyone out there using any of the newer linksys phones since Cisco took over? I am more specifically looking at the spa-941 & 942's. Just curious about call quality, programability, and functionality with asterisk. I have read through the literature, but would like some real world feedback. Thanks _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> Is anyone out there using any of the newer linksys phones since Cisco > took over? I am more specifically looking at the spa-941 & 942's. Just > curious about call quality, programability, and functionality with asterisk.We've used the SPA-942s in most of our recent installs and been very impressed with them. The 941 lacks PoE and most importantly, has no backlight. I've found the bright, clear, backlit screen really makes a difference when it comes to users' first impressions. They also like the more "upright" nature of it compared to other IP phones - requires substantially less desk space than the Snom 360/370 or Aastra 55i/57i, for example. Firmware is improving fairly rapidly and is well worth updating before deployment. Remote provisioning documentation is somewhat scarce and does seem to involve a fair bit of trial and error, but once you get it working, it seems to work fairly well. I've replaced the Cisco 7960 on my desk with the colour SPA-962. It's about half the buy price of the Cisco, takes less desk space, has more features, and a vastly superior screen. Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it This email is made from 100% recycled electrons
> Is anyone out there using any of the newer linksys phones since Cisco > took over? I am more specifically looking at the spa-941 & 942's. Just > curious about call quality, programability, and functionality with > asterisk.We like these phones, hundreds deployed to business customers. Mass provisioning is a bit tricky. Make sure you get this worked out in the lab before looking like an idiot in front of the customer. Set option 66 TFTP [IP Address] in the DHCP server, pointed to your config files. You can use a perl script to generate any number of config files with a text file as input of MAC, User Name, Exten Number, Server IP. Users seem to have trouble with the 941's and handling multiple calls, using the soft keys to navigate back and forth between hold calls, for this reason, I don't use the 941's, just the 942's and put first line extension on all line 4 positions, users seem to understand and use this better. Do upgrade to the latest firmware and check for new updates frequently, bug fixes and added and features come relatively quick on this phone, which is a good thing. Paging takes priority over an existing call, so be careful if you plan to do phone-to-phone intercom, it annoys the hell out of users when a page puts a call on hold automatically, you can turn call waiting off on the phone or set the page not to auto answer or in Asterisk you can check the channel state and not page if existing channel exists (this is the best way). I can send you the dial plan to handle this if needed. Set the backlight to 'always on' on the user tab, any SIP messaging or SIP info messages to the phone triggers the backlight, annoys users when the light is on-off-on-off-on-off throughout the day. No way to upload a directory file yet, wish there was. 10 second boot time, up and running, which is really great. Lots of good features, solid mid to low end cost business phone, customers seem to like it and not many support calls once the users get used to using it. JR -------------- JR Richardson Engineering for the Masses
in the office we use 4 IP Phone SPA942 from linksys and i must say that they are great ;) easy to install and maintain ... some stuff is missing but it works great ... Greatings, Jan De Coster Robert Webb wrote:> Is anyone out there using any of the newer linksys phones since Cisco > took over? I am more specifically looking at the spa-941 & 942's. Just > curious about call quality, programability, and functionality with asterisk. > > I have read through the literature, but would like some real world feedback. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >