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I'll admit in my case, the main reason the boot time of the Polycom
drives me nuts is that I don't see the phones unless I'm installing
them for the first time or supporting them when something isn't quite
right. It's for this reason that I very much appreciate a phone that
either (a) boots fairly quickly or (b) doesn't feel the need to reboot
for everything except lifting the handset.<br>
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Both the Linksys and Polycom phones score poorly on this point - both
of them restart to some degree with just about every config change, no
matter how minor - but more to the point, reboot without asking you
first. If I've got half a dozen small changes to make or if you're
experimenting with a couple of settings, this gets old <i>real</i>
quick.<br>
<br>
The Snoms are nice here - on those rare occasions the phone needs to
restart, it prompts you first - allowing you to continue to make
changes if you want.<br>
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Michael Graves wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm not sure why people dwell on the boot time so much. I only reboot
the phones VERY rarely. I can't recall the last time I had to. Unlike
some others, the manage to do it on their own periodically.
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