[asterisk-users] Just bought a Polycom 501 - I feel like myGXP-2000 was better...

[shadowym]

One of the problems with opinions on these forums IMHO is that they are
mostly from technical types and not typical end users. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:12 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Just bought a Polycom 501 - I 
> feel like myGXP-2000 was better...
> 
> Feelings are for the ignorant.
> In any case, if you have trouble pinging your phone then you 
> have something wrong on either your network, or you got a 
> damaged phone.
> Here is my output from pinging a Polycom 501 while in a 
> conversation with app_voicemail:
> Ping statistics for 192.168.1.246:
>     Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss), 
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms
> 
> On 7/24/06, Mike <list at virtutel.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm half writing this to get some answers, and half-writing this to 
> > put in my 2 cents for anybody who's looking to get his first VoIP 
> > phone.  Polycom's seem to be highly regarded here, and after having 
> > bought a Polycom 501 as my second phone (my first was the unloved 
> > Grandstream GXP-2000), I am left wondering why.
> >
> > Never mind that the setup of the Polycom was more 
> complicated than the 
> > GXP-2000 by a few order of magnitudes, that only matters the first 
> > time you do it.  But things like 3-way conferences are 
> harder to use 
> > (whatever happened to picking a line, pressing CONF and picking 
> > another line????) and in general, except for the aesthetics of the 
> > phone, the GrandStream is an equal phone (for a much lesser 
> price) than the Polycom 501.
> >
> > My worst gripe with this phone, is that I haven't managed 
> to have it 
> > on the LAN without it disappearing for a few seconds.  If I 
> ping the 
> > phone (on the same LAN, on the same underused hub actually) 
> I get 5-6 
> > responses, then timeouts....then another few responses, 
> then timeouts 
> > again.  This translates into sound being (badly) cut off when Im 
> > talking.  The same experiments yields good results with the 
> GXP-2000.  
> > I understand ping might not be prioritized on the Polycom, but this 
> > was done with no calls coming in or going out.  So why is 
> it disappearing?  Or is there a better test?
> >
> > If it helps, my setup can be described as a Asterisk server 
> (NO NAT) 
> > and a Polycom 501 (behind a Nat).  The Grandstream handles 
> that like a 
> > pro, I assumed the Polycom would too, considering the reputation of 
> > Polycom and the price of the phone.
> >
> > I would be grateful to anyone who clues me in on what I am doing 
> > wrong, because I am 95% certain it's somehow my fault.  My gf would 
> > tell you it always is :-)
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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