[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Quality Survey.... :P

[Greg Renouf]

I have 6 broken Grandstreams- out of an order of 8.  After having tested
over a dozen IP phone products, I found that Grandstream was the worst
choice of the group.

I would never recommend that anyone buys this product unless they are using
it for non-essential use.  To put it simply: Grandstream phones are complete
crap.

-GSR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 6:43 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Quality Survey.... :P


> Today class we are going to be talking about the wonderful line of
> GrandStream products.  Or should I say BarbieTone phones?
>
> Who else is having MAJOR issues with the grandstream products?
>
> How many times have you been told upgrade upgrade upgrade?
>
> How many of you have paperweights, granted the phone is light as a feather
> and couldn't weight papers down in the first place?
>
> How about that ring tone, really dandy eh?
>
> Who else is irked about the the GAPS crap?  It should slurp down
> cfgMACADDRESS.txt and we shouldn't have to pay more for that option.
>
> Have you had Message Waiting Indicator issues?
>
> Have you had issues with the Hold button and flash button?
>
> Have you had issues with sip transfers?
>
> Has the grandstream product line made you want to hurt someone?
>
> Care for some matches and lighter fluid?
>
> Was the response from grandstream support able to take care of your
> problems?
>
> I own a grandstream phone and I guess I just don't use it enought to see
> alot of these problems but the consensus on #asterisk is they are CRAP and
> everyone should stop buying them till they get their act together.
>
> A few people in the asterisk community have offered to write IAX firmware
> for the phones but grandstream has give them the run around.  If they
> can't create stable and usable firmware they should atleast let the info
> out to let someone write IAX firmware for the damn thing.
>
> BOYCOTT GRANDSTREAM
>
> Thanks,
> bkw_
>
> PS: then again you get what you pay for, 10 dollar phone with a 65 dollar
> pricetag.
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