Like many others I nearly didn't buy this product due to the 'issues' everyone seemed to have setting it up with Panasonic phones...however...after reading the post on this site this and a few other posts like it elsewhere I went for it and it set up automatically in about 10 seconds (once I'd remembered to switch the handset to repeater mode - doh!). The only confusion was (as mentioned on this site) the 'tone' which I thought was the out of range tone but was in fact the 'verification tone'. Consequently, although the unit had set itself up perfectly as soon as I plugged it in, I spent about 20mins doing manual setups before realising that the 'chirp' was just the verification tone and I could deactivate it! Another 10 seconds following the procedure in the manual later and I had a fully functioning unit! The setup procedure flow charts are excellent, they just need and extra step to point you to the verification tone section.
Quality is brilliant - 5 star product (with 4.5 star instructions!)
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] Date Added: 19/02/2011 by Adrian Walter
Initially had issues with this product, but this is mainly down to the documentation not being able to cover so many different models of phone.
The 'chirp' on the line for identifying the unit is described as a tone in the instructions, but 'chirp' is a better description, it sounds more like a breakup in the call. This confused me as it's easy to activate by accident when you're constantly resetting the unit trying to get it to work.
I've used these with Panasonic KXTG-652x series phones and the instructions don't quite match. The units seem to 'automatically' connect, but they don't actually register with the base station, if another base station is in range, they switch over to the one with the strongest signal automatically. You have to follow the manual registration procedure described on this website, but with a slight change...
Setup the repeater for manual registration, press and hold the 'page' button on the base station, then when the LED on the repeater flashes frantically, you need to press the page button again briefly on the base station before you press the green call button on the phone and assign a number. Also, the number you assign to the repeater is not related to the number of handsets, we already had the maximum 6 handsets assigned to our base station but adding a repeater worked fine.
It's also worth changing the way the repeater faces if you are having problems, it's presumably not an omni-directional antenna because turning the repeater to roughly face the base station worked far better in our tests.
Rating: 
[4 of 5 Stars!] Date Added: 17/12/2010 by Adam Scott
