Can anybody recomend a VOIP Residencial phone

yes I have a pbx system at home. I was looking at the SNOM M3 its cool but expensive. have you tried this one out?

rrichiez

> I have heard nothing but good about it

You can't be talking about the M3? You didn't see all of our posts?
It reboots on incoming calls. If you put a call on hold or transfer it, you get one way audio.
Everytime you answer a call on it, it is Russian Roulette.
I have 4 open tickets with SNOM, they are very courteous, but they haven't been able to fix any of the problems.

It works about 80% of the time for me. That, coupled with the ridiculously short range makes it useless.
I can't even get to the door of my house before I lose the signal. With my old 5.8 GHZ Panasonic, I could go out the door, all the way down to the end of the block, and still have usable signal, with some static. I only got the M3 because it was VoIP. My panasonic was POTS.

I think it would be pretty cool if they could fix the bugs in the software, i'm still keeping it. Also, the speakerphone needs a lot of work.

As for the bathrooms, we have phones in all bathrooms. I found it is actually really useful if a priority call comes in while you are in the shower...
I have 4 levels of priority for calls. Regular (lowest priority) calls don't ring in the bathrooms.

For video calls, we are doing Tandberg 1000 video phones. We are not putting those in the bathrooms. LOL.

Getting back to the original question, we are standardizing on Aastra phones in the house for voice calls...
Except for the misshapen handset, we love them. I wish Aastra had a video version of the 57i.

The reason we even went down the SNOM path at home was two fold:

1 - I had a customer on them and wanted everyone on Aastra's so I bought them back, these where these where the 360's.
2 - The spousal technology acceptance factor was very high on the 220's, they simply look trick. I can hang it up in the dark so it's a lousy bedroom phone for me. It doesn't bother her. I had a Cisco 7970 in there and she complained that it lit up the room for 30 minutes after a call.

We had a bunch of quality problems with the 360's. We had to modify the hookswitch return spring and reattach the ribbon to the LCD's they kept separating. I can't stand the rubber keys (I don't like any rubber keys).

The 370 and 300's are a different story. They got it right, plastic keys on both models and they beefed up the handset, it 'feels' right now.

The latest software is their best effort. The XML is quite rich including push XML. Nobody has taken advantage of XML features as Aastra has though. Having a dozen line appearance keys (never have enough with devstate support) and the ability to remap any key is very handy.

If you put a common directory in the tftpboot folder the phone also displays the extension name when you dial it, as a proper phone should.