[Asterisk-bsd] IP Phone Recommendation

[Jay Stewart]

If you want a high quality phone, with *almost* the cheap price of the
BudgeTone phones, I recommend the Linksys/Cisco/Sipura SPA-941.  This is,
(IMESHO) a very good flexibly-configurable business phone, up to four lines,
(or a cheaper two line version, with four "line appearances").  My only
complaint is that it has a light mass, and the rubber feet don't "grab" as
well as they should on some desks.

I am not aware of any phones that use IAX to communicate with the * server,
as IAX is "Inter-Asterisk eXchange" protocol, and is not meant for use with
phone client (sip peers).  I can verify that the SPA-941 works well with my
* installation running on FreeBSD.

Jay Stewart
Zhonka Broadband

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-bsd-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Kirk
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:47 AM
To: Asterisk on BSD discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-bsd] IP Phone Recommendation


I'll conccur with Graham - I've got ~20 of the BudgetTone 101's deployed in
my office - as cheap, simple VoIP phones they work great.  I can't even say
I have the need to reboot them (or else my users haven't told me about
anything). Steve


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-bsd-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Graham
Menhennitt
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 2:44 PM
To: Asterisk on BSD discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] IP Phone Recommendation

Frank Griffith wrote:
> I'd like to purchase at least one IP phone for my setup. I've seen the

> prices everywhere from $60 to $400. Can anyone please recommend a
> good, inexpensive model that is SIP and IAX2 compatible? Where is the 
> best place to buy? All the electronics stores I visited yesterday 
> where no help so I guess on-line is the way to go.
I don't know of any IAX hard phones. You can have a look at
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/VOIP+Phones for a fairly comprehensive
list.

I have a Grandstream BudgeTone 101. The only problem I have with it is that
it needs to be reset occasionally for some unknown reason. Other than that I
like it. It's certainly one of the cheapest.

Graham
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