We got stuck with 12 ip200e phones that don't work as the reseller promised. I am considering installing them on an asterisk server at the remote location. Has anyone done this or know if this is possible?
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They certified the wan. We can get one to two phones to work, but can't get more than that to work properly. It isn't economical to increase the wan bandwidth. We are now using analog phones at this location. I am looking at using Astrisk and IP phones (preferably the ESI IP200e phones we already own).
The IP phones actually caused the main system to stop functioning properly. Display screens wouldn't update and features would break. So, not only did the drops in the IP phones make them worthless, they took out the main IVX 128 e system as well
what type of wan? how many remote ip phones? and no you can not use esi ip phones on an astrik ip system. so are you have a 128e and a 200e sitting around? i have done esi-link, remote ip, and local ip with no problem this does not seem right.
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The IP200E is a phone system not a phone. You most likely have ESI 48 KEY REMOTE IP PHONES. We've installed many REMOTE IP PHONES and ESI IP200E systems. They are rock solid. Something is not right with your install. If you have bandwidth problems call quality will suffer on the remote phones. It shouldn't have any impact on your local digital phones. Email me if you need to dispose of those REMOTE IP PHONES.
You are right, I have 12 ESI 48 Key Remote IP phones working off of a IP200E. We had two different wan setups attempted. The first involved a 11mb wireless connection between the main building a DSL connection (~482K bandwidth) to the remote building on a 482K DSL. A second variation included dual DSL modems on a dual wan router.
The second setup was a direct line of site wifi 54mb connection using 80db linksys wrt54G with VAGI antennas.
The local digital phones tanked as soon as we had more than a couple of ip phones attached. The ESI vendor said we should just hook up two and forget about the rest!
Getting any voip product to work on this bandwidth would be a trick. Your reseller should have recommended a minimum 100mb network. I'm surprised esi allowed the sale on this network; they require the network be qualified to spec before they release the product to the vendor. It sounds like your vendor put this product on a network that will not support it. My advice is to contact esi directly give them your network specs. and see how they reply.
