[Asterisk-Users] Stay away from Grandstream!

[Jacques Leisy]

My only experience is with their Budgetone 102. You basically get you 
pay for.
I have since purchased a pair of Aastra 480i. Much much better. I am 
going to put the Budgetone on ebay, no point dealing with all the 
hassle. The main issue for me was actually not sofware but rather the 
design of the handset.



Vahan Yerkanian wrote:
> 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
>>
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