Actually, once you know what you are doing, the IP500 and other Polycoms are quite easy to configure.
 
You just setup an FTP server to serve your configs off of.
 
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom IP300s

I tend to agree.
We own some Polycom 500's and a bunch of 841's.
the 500 looks nicer, but its an abolute PAIN to configure.
The 841 is simple, and does basically the same thing.
 
One of the bigger headaches we have had stemmed from putting the power phone users on the 500's.  they aren't able to help the other users as much because they don't have a 841.  You can tell the difference on the sound and speakerphone features.  The polycom speakerphone and mic are much much better.  But it's just a phone and most people have no idea what they are.
 
In fact, I had a technician in house last week and he asked to use the phone.  I pointed him to a SPA-841 and explained he was welcome to use it and to make sure to hit Dial "like a cell phone" when he placed his call.  After he was done 20 minutes later I asked what he thought of the phone.  He asked why and I explained that it was a new VOIP phone and that his call had gone across our network to the server and then out the phone line.  He said he'd had no idea and that he was really impressed with it.  I then spotted a phone I hadn't configured in the same area and configured it in the space of about 5 minutes and when he asked to call again I pointed to that phone and mentioned that it now worked just like the other one. hehe.
 

Brian Greul
Texas Shirt Company
www.txshirts.com
713-802-0369 / 713-861-6261 (fax)

 


From: Rod Bacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:00 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom IP300s

Over the last few weeks/months I have been testing phones and ATAs from Grandstream (BT101, GXP2000, 286, 488), SNOM (190), Zyxel (Piece of Crap), Sipura (SPA-2000, SPA-841) and I personally feel that the Sipura SPA-841 is the best value, good quality phone that I have used. I haven't used the polycoms yet, but I plan to in the next few weeks.
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Morin
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom IP300s

Sorry =or the double post, I tried to paste and accidently sent the email
 
I've been playing with Asterisk for a few =eeks now, and I've gotten everything to work well with softphones, so I'm ready to =ove on to normal VoIP phones.  I've been looking around and reading =omments that people have had, and I was convinced that the Polycom IP300 was a great =hone for a good price.  But, then I ran into this page, which has been =pdate in the last few days:
 
http://w=w.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+SoundPoint+IP+500<=DIV>
 
The page in the wiki used to say that the =erson would not recomed Polycom phones to anyone.  So anyway, I just want to =ake sure that the IP300 is a good choice.  I don't want to get cheap phones =hat aren't business quality, since I do play on using them for my business =fter testing.  Also, is the IP500 worth the extra money?  What can =t do that the IP300 can't.  And finally, will the IP300 do ulaw encoding?
 
Thanks in advance.


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