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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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