[Asterisk-Users] OT: Grandstream problems

[Jim Dossey]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:55 -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Be carefull with assuptions regarding the Linksys. There were several
> different models (versions) of that hardware, and the early models
> did not support 100 meg ethernet worth a darn. Some packets make
> it through and a large number did not. Change the port speed on
> your phone to 10 meg (if you can) and try again. (I seen your post
> on the ping packet loss and that sort of reminded me of problems
> seen before.)
> 
> Rich


Thanks for the feedback (and the reply from Dave Cotton as well).  I'm
going to try the phone on a completely different network and see what
happens.
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