[Asterisk-Users] OT: Grandstream problems

[Jim Dossey]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:19 -0500, Jim Dossey wrote:

> I know this is off topic a little, but I thought I would ask the
> people that use this stuff everyday instead of trying to talk to some
> tech support guy.
> 
> I just got a Grandstream 100 yesterday.  I plugged it into my network
> and after a few seconds it showed the correct time and date.  After
> that I tried to access the built-in web server.  After several tries I
> finally got the login screen.  That took about 10 tries before it
> displayed anything.  Then I entered the default password 'admin' and
> clicked the Login button.  After that I got nothing.  The phone still
> seemed to be working - I could press the Menu button and the menu
> would come up and I could scroll through it.
> 
> After trying that for awhile, I decided to try a firmware upgrade.  So
> I entered the grandstream tftp server address into the phone
> (168.75.215.189) and it did seem to do the upgrade.  At least I think
> it did.  The "P" entry in the revision screen shows 1.0.5.16.  There
> are lots of other revision numbers in there that I'm not sure about.
> 
> I also tried changing out the ethernet cable, and plugging it into
> different ports on my Linksys switch (BEFSX41), but nothing works.
> 
> Do I just have a bad unit?
> 
> TIA 


I should add that it was a Grandstream Budgetone 101.  Also, I can ping
the phone, but I get about 10% ping failures.
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