Thanks. I’m quite tempted by the Yealink W73H / W78H and wondered if it might be my best bet.

I’ve written elsewhere but I’m not hugely impressed by my Snom m15. It’s not so bad that I want to replace it, but I don’t think I’m going to buy them again for another setup. I have used Gigaset handsets a looooong time ago - like maybe 15 years - and the build quality was pretty dreadful and puts me off. It sounds like there are some happy users here, but also that it’s not completely smooth running.

Why’s it all so complicated!?

Yealink system has been in a couple of weeks and so far it's done none of the bad things the Gigaset one did. Line stays registered. Broadband can go away and come back and router can be rebooted and it seems to cope just fine.

Hopefully it will carry on like this for months on end.

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Yealink system has been in a couple of weeks and so far it's done none of the bad things the Gigaset one did. Line stays registered. Broadband can go away and come back and router can be rebooted and it seems to cope just fine.

Hopefully it will carry on like this for months on end.

Spoke too soon. Call quality awful suddenly. Had to reboot it to get it back to normal. So that's 3 weeks it will do of light use before it's got a problem.

I use a Yealink W70B alongside two Yealink W56H handsets with A&A and Voipfone without issues.

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I use a Yealink W70B alongside two Yealink W56H handsets with A&A and Voipfone without issues.

Might flag it up to A & A then and see if they have any idea why it would suddenly do it.

My Yealink - forced to use it with BT Business, is fine with no issues. But I cannot add other VoIP services to it, and cannot put the BT service of my N300A-ip!

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I use a Yealink W70B alongside two Yealink W56H handsets with A&A and Voipfone without issues.

Might flag it up to A & A then and see if they have any idea why it would suddenly do it.

When you say it works for a while and then the call quality is awful can you be more specific? Grab a SIP trace when the problem arises and it should help identify the cause.

For what it's worth, A&A only offer the PMCA CODEC. Do you have more than one CODEC enabled in the GUI and if so is PCMA at the top of the list? You should remove all CODECS from the enabled boxed leaving only PCMA enabled.
Account > CODEC > PCMA

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My Yealink - forced to use it with BT Business, is fine with no issues. But I cannot add other VoIP services to it, and cannot put the BT service of my N300A-ip!

I'm guessing BT supplied you with the hardware? If so it will likely be "locked down" and maybe even running custom firmware. Do BT Business provide end users with the required SIP credentials needed to use their own hardware? I doubt it!

Exactly ... BT Hardware and password locked. Previously they would provide the credentials and I used the N300A-IP, but now they no longer do. Just cheaper to have service with the "voice" than without, we get around one or two calls a day on it.

I have Vodafone FTTP here. It comes with Digital Voice but I have never used it, would never use it. I don't even use their HUB, I use my own mesh routers.

I use AAISP and Voipfone here. I pay £1.44p per month to AAISP and have a easy to remember local number. All inbound calls come via AAISP, but outbound, are split between the two. Some outbound numbers are cheaper when called via Voipfone, others AAISP. People I call are none the wiser because both AAISP and Voipfone have the same CLI set.

There are other benefits to this type of setup.
1. Should AAISP go down, outbound calls are still possible.
2. I don't need to port my landline every time I change broadband providers.
(This also reduces the risk of me losing the number and split ports.)
3. I get to use my own hardware.
4. Support is top notch because and I'm not dealing with call centres and their scripts.