[Asterisk-Users] help w/ basics

[Rod Bacon]

Sorry If I misled people. I probably need to re-investigate the polycom 
phones. Obviously I was wrong about their needing a boot server to function.



Jerry wrote:
> 
> On Mar 29, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Rod Bacon wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, the polycom phone was a bad choice from a beginner's 
>> perspective, as it loads it's firmware/config from a boot server every 
>> time it's powered up, and won't work without it.
>>  
>> Get a softphone (firefly, xten) running on a PC first (to ensure that 
>> your asterisk is OK).
>>  
>> Take your Polycom back to the shop, and get a cheap-ass Grandstream 
>> Budgetone.
>>  
> 
> 
> Uhhh - which Polycoms are you talking about? All the ones I have work 
> great without a boot server. Just manually enter network info and let it 
> boot. then point your web browser at it and set your config info. All 
> info is saved in internal memory and upon reboot will behave as before.
> 
> A boot server is great if you have many telephones to support, but for 
> just a few don't worry about one. Except you will need to have either an 
> FTP or tftp available to upgrade the firmware or the bootrom code.
> 
> Yes a Grandstream is an OK beginners phone. In fact it is the one I 
> started expeimenting with. However since I was investigating using for 
> enterprise class applications I soon found it was not a good fit.
> 
> Enjoy your Polycom!!!

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