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On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:55 -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 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 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 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 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">> After trying that for awhile, I decided to try a firmware upgrade. So I entered the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">grandstream tftp server address into</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the phone (168.75.215.189) and it did seem to do the upgrade. At least I think it did. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The "P" entry in the revision</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> screen shows 1.0.5.16. There are lots of other revision numbers in there that I'm not </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">sure about.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I also tried changing out the ethernet cable, and plugging it into different 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">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">Rich</FONT>
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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.
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