On 7 Jul 2006, at 18:40, Brian Capouch wrote:
Benny Amorsen wrote:
"BC" == Brian Capouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BC> Everyone's mileage varies, and IMO it doesn't do any of us any
BC> good for negative opinions to be presented to the public as fact.
BC> You disclaimed, indeed, but you would have been better off to say
BC> something like, "Grandstreams have been problematic for me in my
BC> application space."
Perhaps that would be more diplomatic, but the truth is that
Grandstreams really are junk. Sound quality is bad both ways,
tolerance of packet loss and jitter is nil, and the user has to be
willing to reboot the phone once in a month.
I hate to prolong the argument, but I respectfully disagree.
I've over a dozen of them in the field, most of which are in light/
medium use on a daily basis. Generally the only reboots they
undergo is when our notoriously flaky rural electric power fails.
I have a business partner who has even more of them than I do, and
he is equally satisfied with their performance in his industrial
shop type application.
The "talking CallerID" function is a majorly good feature, and I
keep one of them in my office just so I'll know who's calling
without having to go look at the phone.
I wish you bashers would lighten up a little bit, and not treat
those of us who are satisfied with phones as if we were too stupid
to know what we can live with.
What you want from a phone depends on the environment.
I have one of the early zyxel wifi phones. I tried it in the office -
it drove me nuts, I can dial faster than it can take key presses
and it hates WEP.
I took it home, with a few speed dials it is ok, and the cordlessness
really comes into its own.
At work I have SNOM 190's - or Elmeg 290 (same thing)
I recently got offered the elmeg for < £60 (trade)
which is ~$100. It is too big for a small desk but otherwise great.
_______________________________________________
--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
