[Asterisk-Users] Stay away from Grandstream!

[Vahan Yerkanian]

Stay away from Grandstream and AddPac. These are some of the companies 
with undereducated software developers that have problems with 
understanding written english, mainly the SIP RFC documents. I learned 
this the hard way, wasting half a year with helping them fix problems 
which shouldn't be there if they have had read/implemented the RFC 
correctly.

Basically, they sell beta quality hardware and then you co-share their 
final firmware development costs by providing free testing/QA. I blame 
their sales management for pushing developers to release without proper 
testing.

GXP2000 is much more buggy echo-can wise than the earlier models.

For now, I'm back to more expensive equipment. We're not that rich to 
pay twice.

HTH,
Vahan


Avi Miller wrote:
> Brian Capouch wrote:
> 
>> They don't perform as well as the expensive Ciscos and Polycoms, but 
>> many of us are using them in a variety of circumstances quite happily.
> 
> 
> I have 4 of them in a small office (GXP2000) running 1.0.12 and they're 
> just fine for our purposes. As Brian said, YMMV. For our 60-person 
> office in Sydney, I'm probably going to use a mix of Polycom/Grandstream 
> and softphones.
> 
> cYa,
> Avi
>