[asterisk-users] Just bought a Polycom 501 - I feel like myGXP-2000 was better...

[C F]

Shadow, you mean to say that endusers like the GPX-2000 better than the Polycom?

On 7/24/06, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
> One of the problems with opinions on these forums IMHO is that they are
> mostly from technical types and not typical end users.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:12 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Just bought a Polycom 501 - I
> > feel like myGXP-2000 was better...
> >
> > Feelings are for the ignorant.
> > In any case, if you have trouble pinging your phone then you
> > have something wrong on either your network, or you got a
> > damaged phone.
> > Here is my output from pinging a Polycom 501 while in a
> > conversation with app_voicemail:
> > Ping statistics for 192.168.1.246:
> >     Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> > Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
> >     Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms
> >
> > On 7/24/06, Mike <list at virtutel.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm half writing this to get some answers, and half-writing this to
> > > put in my 2 cents for anybody who's looking to get his first VoIP
> > > phone.  Polycom's seem to be highly regarded here, and after having
> > > bought a Polycom 501 as my second phone (my first was the unloved
> > > Grandstream GXP-2000), I am left wondering why.
> > >
> > > Never mind that the setup of the Polycom was more
> > complicated than the
> > > GXP-2000 by a few order of magnitudes, that only matters the first
> > > time you do it.  But things like 3-way conferences are
> > harder to use
> > > (whatever happened to picking a line, pressing CONF and picking
> > > another line????) and in general, except for the aesthetics of the
> > > phone, the GrandStream is an equal phone (for a much lesser
> > price) than the Polycom 501.
> > >
> > > My worst gripe with this phone, is that I haven't managed
> > to have it
> > > on the LAN without it disappearing for a few seconds.  If I
> > ping the
> > > phone (on the same LAN, on the same underused hub actually)
> > I get 5-6
> > > responses, then timeouts....then another few responses,
> > then timeouts
> > > again.  This translates into sound being (badly) cut off when Im
> > > talking.  The same experiments yields good results with the
> > GXP-2000.
> > > I understand ping might not be prioritized on the Polycom, but this
> > > was done with no calls coming in or going out.  So why is
> > it disappearing?  Or is there a better test?
> > >
> > > If it helps, my setup can be described as a Asterisk server
> > (NO NAT)
> > > and a Polycom 501 (behind a Nat).  The Grandstream handles
> > that like a
> > > pro, I assumed the Polycom would too, considering the reputation of
> > > Polycom and the price of the phone.
> > >
> > > I would be grateful to anyone who clues me in on what I am doing
> > > wrong, because I am 95% certain it's somehow my fault.  My gf would
> > > tell you it always is :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
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