[Asterisk-Users] Reccomendation for reliable handsets

[Brett, Gary]

Bob, Thanks for your reply, im not sure what top posting is, but I have been
on holiday and am simply replying to a response that was given to my
original question, If you could explain to me how I go about continuing the
thread it would be much appreciated, with regards to your reply, I am indeed
daisy chaining to the PC, hence my post point regarding bottlenecking the
100mbits to the desktop 

I just find it hard to understand the point of releasing a phone with a 2
port hub yet still limiting to ports to 10mbits, anyway , I take it there
are no alternatives from budgetone, so I will have to at other low cost
models

Thanks all 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Goddard [mailto:asterisk at bgcomp.co.uk] 
Sent: 14 February 2005 14:11
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Reccomendation for reliable handsets

On Monday 14 February 2005 13:00, Brett, Gary wrote:
> Thanks Mark
>
> I am definitely interested in the budgetone 102 but am a little concerned
> about the 10mbit only Ethernet ports !! From what I have read, these are
> relatively new models and I like the addition of a second port to daisy
> chain your PC from the same network connection, however why 10mbits and
not
> 100mbits ??, I would have thought this would be a minimum these days, I
> don't know anyone who still runs 10mbits to the desktop, and im not too
> happy about bottlenecking my customers fast Ethernet network with these
> phones
>
> A real shame really. Does anybody know if Grandstream will be addressing
> this or indeed if they have any current models with at least 100mbit ports

Please do not top post.

I don't think there is a single IP phone which can flood a 10Mbps port.
You do not need 100Mbps on a phone unless it has a passthrough to a PC.

Let's see, using a 64Kbps codec and being generous, will use 100Kbps
on the wire. Assuming the 10Mbps port can reliably run at 8Mbps, that
means the phone would have to have 8 * 1000 / 100 = 80 concurrent
RTP streams. Can anyone see anything wrong with my rough calculations?


B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Benson [mailto:mark.benson at iqit.co.uk]
> Sent: 03 February 2005 14:27
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Reccomendation for reliable handsets
>
> I have been using an IN1002 generic handset (supposed to be an unbranded
> cisco copy but I am skeptical) for a few months (6months+) now, and it
> seems pretty stable - however I haven't found a reliable supplier Also
> there is almost no support for them..
>
> I have switched to the grandstream budgetone 102 and they seem pretty
> good too. You can pretty much plug in and forget it with both phones.
> They do lock up occasionally (once a month to once every 3 months). I
> have yet to upgrade the firmware on the grandstreams...
>
> Mark
>
> Brett, Gary wrote:
> >Sorry to move this up the list again, but does anybody have any advice on
> >this
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Brett, Gary [mailto:gary.brett at cetelem.co.uk]
> >Sent: 02 February 2005 10:49
> >To: 'asterisk-users at lists.digium.com'
> >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Reccomendation for reliable handsets
> >
> >Hi there
> >
> >I'm sure this question has been raised a number of times before, but
> >unfortunately I do not have direct access to the archives
> >
> >I am about to roll out Asterisk to a few companies and would like to hear
> >your experiences about the various handsets/phones that are Asterisk
> >compatible
> >
> >I am primarily looking for 2 options, the first being a cheaper model
> > which will provide reliability whilst still maintaining a reasonable
> > feature set, and a reliable model from the more expensive range with
more
> > features
> >
> >But the definite focus here is on reliability and ease of maintenance
> >
> >
> >
> >Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated; I would really like to
>
> hear
>
> >your experiences/recommendations
> >
> >Cheers
> >Gary
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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