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Best bang for the buck Voip Phone with dual ethernet

Posted by schat@schat.net on Fri, 07/29/2011

I am getting ready to buy new voip phones
Is this one good I cant think of why it woudl not be
http://www.voipsupply.com/cisco-spa504g


Submitted by gregshap on Fri, 07/29/2011 Permalink

I use these all the time and they they work well for me but you may want to save some money and get the 2 line version as with IP PBXs, you really don't need so many lines. Unless you really need the 4.

Greg

Submitted by eeman on Sun, 07/31/2011 Permalink

the biggest complaint I get on those linksys (fake cisco) phones and the yealink phones are those handsets. They are a little shorter and more curved than polycom, true cisco, and snom. As a result they balance for shit on your shoulder pressed against your ear. Sometimes its those little things that cause massive negative feedback from the customer and next thing you know you have a mutiny on your hands. For this reason I have demo phones in my presentation room so local customers can feel the phones for themselves before making a decision.

as far as a nice cheap meat+potatoes type phone, check out the yealink T22. Its a basic 3 line phone that costs less than $75. Basically anywhere you would put a polycom 335 you could use one of these, as long as the handset doesn't bother them too much. However, don't mix and match manufacturers. That's generally a bad idea not because of technical issues with the devices but more administratively, user confusion, etc.