Over the years one thing I have learned is that first impressions of a phone are not always indicitive of what it’s like to use a phone for a long period of time. Because of this I actually stopped doing phone reviews for a while until I could spend a good amount of time using [...]

Linksys is certainly paving the way with their VoIP products lately and we certainly were impressed with the SPA-941 phone although it was a bit lacking in a few features that we considered to be key items. The new SPA-942 is now readily available and addresses several of these key features. Let’s look under the [...]

The Linksys SPA-3102 is a cool little device that can convert your analog phone line into a SIP trunk into your trixbox or Asterisk PBX PBX system. The problem is most people have a ton of problems getting them to work properly.
While there are a ton of settings, there are really only about 7 [...]

While there are bajillions of USB Skype phones available now and more are coming out every day. While they may work well with Skype, they typically don’t work very well with regular SIP or IAX softphones, and even then, most have simply horrible call quality. Quite some time ago we reviewed the Duet 250 speakerphone [...]

IP PBX’s continue to grow in popularity but the main cost point has continued to be the interface device to the telephone company’s circuits and internal PCI cards suffer from IRQ conflicts and also don’t work with machine virtualization. External SIP gateways have been expensive and difficult to setup. Grandstream has always been leader in innovation [...]

Linksys is undoubtably skyrocketing to the top of the VoIP product hill and products like the WBP54G are proof that Linksys is listening to their clients and coming out with products that people want. The WBP54G Wireless bridge allows placement of an IP phone in locations where pulling CAT5 cable isn’t feasible. As long as [...]