[Asterisk-Users] OT: Grandstream problems

[Jim Dossey]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:16 -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.
> 
> OR, downgrade the Budgetone to 10 meg, or, replace the linksys with a newer one.
> 

How do you downgrade the Budgetone to 10Mb?  I don't see anything on the
configuration page to do that.  Also the specs on the Budgetone say it
is a 10Base-T port.

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