[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream GXP-2000 Poor sound Quality

[Peter Svensson]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jesus Mogollon wrote:

> We have all those problems and then some... after a while, the phone starts 
> degrading: The ringing becomes lower and lower and there is a lot of 
> stuttering in the conversation. Also, if I stop/start asterisk, half of the 
> phones reconnect while the rest don't. I was using the same firmare as you 
> but had to roll back to 1.0.1.9 <http://1.0.1.9> because of the degrading 
> issue. We have some polycoms connecting to the same server and they have no 
> problems whatsoever so we know it's a problem with the GXP.
> 
> These phones are definately NOT ready for prime time. I would stay away from 
> them. Play it safe and use Polycoms or, if too expensive, maybe Sipuras 841. 
> These GXP-2000s are pure evil.

In fairness the 1.0.1.9 firmware works very well for us. The speakerphone 
has an unusable microphone, but that is not an issue for us. Other than 
that we have not experienced any problems.

Peter