[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone BT-101 audio problems

[Cristian Draghici]

No. If the same NTP server is used and both phones are in the same
switch, I don't see how disabling NTP would help.

I'd rather disable jitterbuffer if it was on when the problem is
manifesting itself.

--
c


On 2/1/06, jurgen <thinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> NTP? Really? I would never have thought of that one. All the phones
> are configured to use pool.ntp.org, and they keep accurate time. Do
> you think disabling NTP altogether would be a good idea?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 31/01/06, Cristian Draghici <cristian.draghici at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you using the same NTP server for both phones?
> > Are you using NTP at all?
> >
> > Is jitterbuffer enabled on the asterisk server?
> >
> > Not sure about SIP, but on IAX if the timestamps go haywire,  you can
> > loose audio from one side.
> >
> > hth,
> > c
> >
> >
> > On 1/31/06, jurgen <thinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm having a really frustrating time with a bunch of BT-101 phones.
> > > They've been trouble-free and working very well for the past several
> > > months. A couple of days ago, some of the phones (but not all of them,
> > > yet) have started acting very strangely. All phones are running
> > > firmware 1.0.6.7, and are identically configured (except for the
> > > user/authenticate/password things) on both the phone side and in
> > > sip.conf.
> > >
> > > After a few hours of relatively heavy use, the phone stops sending the
> > > remote party's voice to the BT-101 person. Someone else (me, heh heh)
> > > listening in to the call via ZapScan can hear both sides just fine, so
> > > it doesn't seem to be Asterisk's problem, at least directly.
> > >
> > > I've tried simply power cycling the phones. Doing that buys me a bit
> > > of time, sometimes a minute, sometimes ten. But the problem always
> > > comes back relatively quickly. Moving the phones to another physical
> > > Ethernet connection does nothing either.
> > >
> > > The way to make the problem go away for about 24 hours is to swap them
> > > around. I move a spare from my desk to the person with the bad phone,
> > > simply by changing the user/auth/pass strings. I set the broken phone
> > > up with my testing user/auth/pass stuff, and they both start working
> > > again. Now get this: Simply changing the user/auth/pass strings on the
> > > bad phone to something else, then setting them back to what they were
> > > before *doesn't work*. The actual phones have to be swapped around.
> > > The phones are plugged into the same switch as the Asterisk server, no
> > > funny stuff there.
> > >
> > > I've tried resetting the phones back to the factory settings, and
> > > reconfiguring them from scratch. That doesn't eliminate the problem
> > > either, just delays it another 24 hours.
> > >
> > > So. That pretty much covers it. Only three of the phones are doing
> > > this, and they only started a few days ago. They were working *fine*
> > > for months! Does anyone have any ideas here? I'm about ready to throw
> > > these phones into a tree shredder.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > ......jurgen
> > >
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