[asterisk-users] DECT phone for home: siemens A510 v. Grandstream DP715

[Roy Abshire]

I never hear a dial tone from my sip phones.  I just pick up the phone 
and dial + send but you should be able to dial out using the same SIP 
account in use...but you will need at least 2 outgoing trunks with your 
SIP provider to call external numbers, unless your calling another 
extension.

Just picking up your phone will not connect you to the call in progress 
on  the other line.

Co-op Vacation Rentals
www.coopvr.com
15218 Summit Ave
Suite #300-354
Fontana, CA 92336
Phone/Fax (855) 760-COOP (2667)

On 12/11/2012 2:39 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> On 12/11/2012 04:37 PM, Roy Abshire wrote:
>> That is true about the A580.
>>
>> I don't like the interface much to check messages.
>>
>> Besides that every time I go to dial a number...it always uses the first
>> digit pressed to go into phone mode..so I have to press the first digit
>> twice...
>>
>> I would test other phones but it's for home and I can't fork over $$ to
>> try them all out....
>>
>> I have tested some Nokia cell phones, the N97, N900, and E71 and the E71
>> and N900 worked well.  I didn't like the N97.
>>
>> Co-op Vacation Rentals
>> www.coopvr.com
>> 15218 Summit Ave
>> Suite #300-354
>> Fontana, CA 92336
>> Phone/Fax (855) 760-COOP (2667)
>>
>> On 12/11/2012 12:52 PM, Pete Mundy wrote:
>>> One thing I dislike about the A580H is that the handset always says 
>>> 'You have new messages' if I've missed a call. It wouldn't bug me if 
>>> it said 'missed call' but it tells me I have new messages and even 
>>> lights up a red LED under a button with a picture of an envelope on it.
>>>
>>> I'm about to test an A510IP and an A610IP to compare against the 
>>> A580. Fingers crossed neither of them has that issue, because the 
>>> Gigaset phone is a pretty good phone other than that, and the 
>>> difficulty doing a (blind) transfer, as referred to by the OP.
>>>
>>> Pete
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/12/2012, at 8:57 AM, Roy Abshire<roy at coopvr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been using the Gigaset A580 Base and A58H Phone for about 3 
>>>> years now.  Never gave me problems. The call Quality is excellent!
>>>> I only have 1 handset connected to the Base but I want more. I 
>>>> bought a Linksys WIP330 as a 2nd phone to try out and that works 
>>>> just as good without a base unit.
>>>>
>>>> The A580 Base supports up to 6 handsets.
>>>>
>>>> I have 6 Incoming VOIP Numbers using separate SIP accounts pointed 
>>>> to 1 Handset but you can point each SIP to separate handsets.
>>>>
>>>> The call goes to the first phone that picks up.  When on a call, 
>>>> picking up another phone makes a separate call and does not 
>>>> conference.  I don't use conference yet but I know you have to put 
>>>> the call on hold or something.
>>>>
>>>> The thing I don't like about the A580 and might be the same on all 
>>>> of them is that you can only specify 1 Sip Account for making 
>>>> outgoing calls.  In other words, all 6 phones would use the same 
>>>> caller id out, but I wanted to be able to choose that because I 
>>>> have a business number and number for each person in our 
>>>> household.  In order to use a different Caller ID (SIP Account) for 
>>>> making outgoing calls I added a extension to my Dial Plan and 
>>>> before making outgoing calls I press *1-6 before the number.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to try adding more handsets that are compatible. I want 
>>>> the SL78H but they are so expensive for just home everyday use.
>>>>
>>>> Make sure you check the compatibility page here before buying 
>>>> handsets.
>>>>
>>>> http://gigaset.com/us/en/cms/PageCustomerServicesCompatibility.html
>>>>
>
> Some stupid questions:
>
> I understand the A510 allows 2 sip calls. Let's say you've registered 
> the base with asterisk. A uses handset 1 to call out over sip. B picks 
> up handset 2. Does B hear a dial tone? Can B dial out over the 
> asterisk server?
>
> Or do you need two registrations with asterisk? In which case, is 
> handset 2 always tied to the second registration?
>
> sean
>
>
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