[ILUG] IP Phones

[Niall O Broin]

On 14 Feb 2006, at 15:30, Colin Whittaker wrote:

>> So, a real deployment of Asterisk edges closer. For my testing I 
>> bought
>> a couple of Grandstream phones - perfectly functional, but no bells 
>> and
>> whistles.
>
> Avoid Grandstream. They are a truly horrid piece of equipment.
> It is possible to get something like 10 RFC violations in the first 7 
> or
> 8 packets they produce. The DHCP client will just stop from time to 
> time
> requiring a reboot.

They were cheap and cheerful and worked fine in testing. I know not of 
RFC violations, but then, they wouldn't be the only piece of networking 
kit in the world to violate an RFC.

> We ran away from them long ago.

I don't intend to stick with Grandstream, hence my original request. 
Where did you run to?



Niall