[Asterisk-Users] OT: Grandstream problems

[Jim Dossey]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 12:45 -0500, Jim Dossey wrote:

> 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.
> > > 
> > > 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. 


For the record, the problem was an incompatibility between the Budgetone
and the Linksys ethernet ports.  I plugged a KTI 10Mb hub between the
Linksys and the Budgetone and it started working.  Don't plug a
Budgetone 101 into a Linksys BEFSX41.

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