Gigaset bundles

Hello, does anyone have experience of using Gigaset base stations, like the Gigaset DX800A for instance?

That's a base station which can take a normal POTS phone line plus a number of Voip lines.

Asking because some of the online stuff is a bit vague.

It says the unit connects daily to gigaset.net - I'm not really keen on that.
One concern would be any restriction to using a third party Voip provider, like Sipgate or Voipfone or many others.

Also, the manual constantly talks about ISDN - goodness sake, I thought that was dead and buried.

Any feedback about these units would be appreciated, thanks.

Not specifically the DX800A, but certainly the much longer in the marketplace N300 IP (and N300A IP) which are great units and you can still get them on Amazon for around fifty quid.

ISDN is/was a big thing in Germany so probably why it's mentioned.

The N300A IP I would still highly recommend. My last remaining one is probably now nudging 9 years old and the other one got killed by a lightning strike, but was otherwise gold.

Thanks Pheasant.
I might just go for the N300A-IP. Price wise you just can't really go wrong.

Ref the ISDN - yes wasn't thinking. I actually used to sell loads of ISDN stuff into Italy. But that's years ago.

Cheers.

As with Pheasant - experience of the N300A IP which is great. 1xAnalog and 6 VoIP, plus 6 cordless handsets.

Any reason you need a desk phone?

Give LIGO a call or check their Amazon listing. I have always have pretty good pricing and service from them.

Thanks MHC,
Desk phones not needed. Although some structure is needed, that is that these phones would "belong" to the office/s .
Individuals welcome to use their mobiles. But especially for incoming business calls, where there can be different staff on different days, these phones would be bound to the office, not to the individual.

Yes I've been looking at Ligo this morning, some good bundles. Need to firm this all up and decide on the right bundle.

But yes thanks to those recommending the N300A-IP. It's comforting to have confirmation from people who have used these items.

The N300A IP allows you to direct specific incoming lines to different handsets if you wish - so Handset one could have Lines 1,2,3; H2 > Lines 1,4,6; H3 > Lines 3,5 &c. There is a limit on max calls in progress though.

My N300A Ip was fine untill it was hit by several hundred kV .... replaced with te same and all fine again.

Can anyone recommend some relatively cheap N300A compatible handsets?
I have a couple of rubbish ones that came with the eBay deal I managed to get (£25 all in), but would like some different handsets if possible.

I have SL450H, S850H and C620H handsets on my system - all are fine.

Use https://www.gigaset.com/en_en/cms/service/compatibil... to chose base and handsets to check compatibility.

Have configured a Gigaset DX800A. Accepted the credentials for Voipfone with no issues. Somewhat tricky to configure which maybe beyond a newbie to VoIP. It will do everything that a N300A IP will do and a lot more. I see the main advantage being dedicated keys for popular functions, a BLF display and an easy accessible call history. The internal phone directory may possibly hold more entries than a N300.

The DX800A has been around for quite a while now and may no longer have firmware updates. It can be an internal extension of a N300A IP bundle. There is much to recommend the phone except for its price.