SOHO Telephone System.

[TonyToniTone]

A friend is looking for a telephone system 2-3 lines in and 6 extensions, after looking around I was going to recommend the Panasonic KX-TEA308E which costs £222.
Can anyone recommend anything better?

discountphonesystems.co.uk    Panasonic.co.uk

[Driller]

I bought that very system and it is very, very complicated to program.

Also it is "modularised" ie if you want caller ID then you need to buy an extra module at the cost of £100 odd.

I sent mine back and got an Orchid Telecom PABX308+ from DST. Easy to program and has caller ID built in and it's much cheaper too.

http://www.home-phones.co.uk/business-and-conferen...

Check out the PABX206 as well.

Edited by Driller on Thursday 11th March 17:52

[AAT1981]

TonyToniTone said:

A friend is looking for a telephone system 2-3 lines in and 6 extensions, after looking around I was going to recommend the Panasonic KX-TEA308E which costs £222.
Can anyone recommend anything better?

discountphonesystems.co.uk    Panasonic.co.uk

Why buy a phone system? Use SIP which is line based extensions.

If you want any advise, call me on 07943 241241, I am not a sales person.....

Alan

[rpguk]

Driller said:

I sent mine back and got an Orchid Telecom PABX308+ from DST. Easy to program and has caller ID built in and it's much cheaper too.

http://www.home-phones.co.uk/business-and-conferen...

That's good to hear, I've got one of these but not got around to installing it yet. Have you found it to be reliable?

Edited by rpguk on Friday 12th March 00:05

[Driller]

rpguk said:

Driller said:

I sent mine back and got an Orchid Telecom PABX308+ from DST. Easy to program and has caller ID built in and it's much cheaper too.

http://www.home-phones.co.uk/business-and-conferen...

That's good to hear, I've got one of these but not got around to installing it yet. Have you found it to be reliable?

Edited by rpguk on Friday 12th March 00:05

No troubles at all, absolutely flawless.

When I first got it I thought that I'd bought the standard and not the plus model and couldn't understand why it wouldn't program. I phoned Orchid and spoke to Jim in tech support and he went through the whole thing with me, incredibly helpful, so if ever you have a question you can be sure it will get sorted.

[anonymous-user]

Orchid is a decent little system, the Panasonic KX-TES824 is VERY easy to program, not sure about the one you are looking at buy all analogue(trunk) Panasonic PBX's are easy, the ISDN ones seem to complicate things with call groups etc.

[Driller]

Dave_ST220 said:

Orchid is a decent little system, the Panasonic KX-TES824 is VERY easy to program, not sure about the one you are looking at buy all analogue(trunk) Panasonic PBX's are easy, the ISDN ones seem to complicate things with call groups etc.

Well everything's relative I supppose and if you are used to programming the Panasonic then it's bound to be easier just out of habit. One thing for sure though is the extra cost for the caller ID module, door opener module etc which come built in in the orchid units.

[TonyToniTone]

Have passed on info on the about SIP, Orchid and the Panasonics.

Thanks for the replies.

[anonymous-user]

Driller said:

Dave_ST220 said:

Orchid is a decent little system, the Panasonic KX-TES824 is VERY easy to program, not sure about the one you are looking at buy all analogue(trunk) Panasonic PBX's are easy, the ISDN ones seem to complicate things with call groups etc.

Well everything's relative I supppose and if you are used to programming the Panasonic then it's bound to be easier just out of habit. One thing for sure though is the extra cost for the caller ID module, door opener module etc which come built in in the orchid units.

The 1st one i did took 10 mins-plug into laptop and check boxes for ext setup etc. Is that one not like that? Or dod you program via handset?