[Asterisk-Users] Best SIP PHones to buy ?

[Paul Liew]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael T Farnworth" <mtf at maximasystems.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best SIP PHones to buy ?


> We have bought around 30 Grandstream phones, both BT101 and BT102.  In
> general the phone is reasonable, but it does have limitations.  Notable
> issues for users tend to be the lack of any sort of consultative transfer
> or easy access to conference calling.  Also its 'call waiting' facility is
> a rather annoying and loud normal ringing noise, rather than the usual
> 'beep beep' that people are probably used to and you can't disable the
> call waiting feature.  Entering numbers also has problems as if you dial
> too quickly you tend to lose digits, even if you heard the tones and saw
> them appear on the display.
>

Michael,

I've put in a patch to fix call waiting for SIP phones, which is now part of
the CVS. For each UA in sip.conf, insert the line

incominglimit=1

Also, ensure that you have a "usename=blah". This will stop the call waiting
for the Grandstream phones. HTH.

Paul