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I've been playing with Asterisk for a few weeks now, and I've gotten
everything to work well with softphones, so I'm ready to move on to
normal VoIP phones. I've been looking around and reading comments that
people have had, and I was convinced that the Polycom IP300 was a great
phone for a good price. But, then I ran into this page, which has been
update in the last few days:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+SoundPoint+IP+500
The page in the wiki used to say that the person would not recomed
Polycom phones to anyone. So anyway, I just want to make sure that the
IP300 is a good choice. I don't want to get cheap phones that aren't
business quality, since I do play on using them for my business after
testing. Also, is the IP500 worth the extra money? What can it do that
the IP300 can't. And finally, will the IP300 do ulaw encoding?
I saw that page after I got a IP 300 for testing last week. So far, so good. IIRC, it does ulaw and alaw--and others. The sound quality is good, the display is good, and the volume gets plenty loud for me. The only thing I don't like about it is the headset port is made for a "real" phone headset (RJ11 jack), not the kind you plug into a cell/cordless phone (2.5mm jack).
The only problem I had configuring it was MWI and the wiki page on MWI and Polycom helped but I didn't have the context set correctly in my sip.conf (I edited the wiki page to clarify what it needs to be).
To save you some time, I wouldn't suggest doing any config through the web interface. Just set up the config files and make them avail. on FTP and then config. the phone to use them. In the long run, you'll want to do this for multiple phones anyway and it gives you more control anyway.
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