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On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:16 -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > I just got a Grandstream 100 yesterday. I plugged it into my network and after </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a few </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> seconds it showed the correct</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > time and date. After that I tried to access the built-in web server. After </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">several </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> tries I finally got the login screen. That</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > took about 10 tries before it displayed anything. Then I entered the default </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">password </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 'admin' and clicked the Login</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > button. After that I got nothing. The phone still seemed to be working - I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">could press </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the Menu button and the menu</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > would come up and I could scroll through it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > I also tried changing out the ethernet cable, and plugging it into different </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ports on my </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Linksys switch (BEFSX41), but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > nothing works.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Do I just have a bad unit?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Be carefull with assuptions regarding the Linksys. There were several</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> different models (versions) of that hardware, and the early models</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> did not support 100 meg ethernet worth a darn. Some packets make</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> it through and a large number did not. Change the port speed on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> your phone to 10 meg (if you can) and try again. (I seen your post</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> on the ping packet loss and that sort of reminded me of problems</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> seen before.)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Rich</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Thanks for the feedback (and the reply from Dave Cotton as well). I'm going to try </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the phone on a completely</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> different network and see what happens.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> For the record, the problem was an incompatibility between the Budgetone and the Linksys </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ethernet ports. I plugged a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> KTI 10Mb hub between the Linksys and the Budgetone and it started working. Don't plug a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Budgetone 101 into a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Linksys BEFSX41.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">OR, downgrade the Budgetone to 10 meg, or, replace the linksys with a newer one.</FONT>
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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.<BR>
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