asterisk users - Dec 2012 - DECT phone for home: siemens A510 v. Grandstream DP715

I have an asterisk server at home. I'm looking to replace my internal 
phones with sip cordless (DECT) phones. I'm now looking at the Siemens 
A510IP base ($90 ) and A510H handset ($40) and the Grandview DP715 base 
($80) and DP710 handset ($45).

The Siemens has a feature were I can also use a PSTN landline, but I not 
sure that's a great benefit.

Has anybody tried these phones? I assume they both integrate with 
asterisk since they both are sip.

I'm leaning towards Grandview. Seems to be easier to transfer calls.

A questions, I'm on a call with one handset, can another person pick up 
a second handset to make another call? can that person join the first 
call? In other words, do I need two base stations to make two calls?

Any suggestions? Thoughts?

sean

I've been using the Gigaset A580 Base and A58H Phone for about 3 years 
now.  Never gave me problems. The call Quality is excellent!
I only have 1 handset connected to the Base but I want more. I bought a 
Linksys WIP330 as a 2nd phone to try out and that works just as good 
without a base unit.

The A580 Base supports up to 6 handsets.

I have 6 Incoming VOIP Numbers using separate SIP accounts pointed to 1 
Handset but you can point each SIP to separate handsets.

The call goes to the first phone that picks up.  When on a call, picking 
up another phone makes a separate call and does not conference.  I don't 
use conference yet but I know you have to put the call on hold or something.

The thing I don't like about the A580 and might be the same on all of 
them is that you can only specify 1 Sip Account for making outgoing 
calls.  In other words, all 6 phones would use the same caller id out, 
but I wanted to be able to choose that because I have a business number 
and number for each person in our household.  In order to use a 
different Caller ID (SIP Account) for making outgoing calls I added a 
extension to my Dial Plan and before making outgoing calls I press *1-6 
before the number.

I'm going to try adding more handsets that are compatible.  I want the 
SL78H but they are so expensive for just home everyday use.

Make sure you check the compatibility page here before buying handsets.

http://gigaset.com/us/en/cms/PageCustomerServicesCompatibility.html


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On 12/11/2012 11:32 AM, sean darcy wrote:
> Siemens A510IP