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

[Brian West]

Yep I have heard this many many times.  Seems like they have a large batch
of phones that are bad.

bkw

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Greg Renouf wrote:

> 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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