We're using Pirelli DPL10's and nokia N95's with cisco aironet access points and both phones are quite happy roaming around the building (6 access points) during calls - the nokias seem to have better signal strength and audio quality than the pirelli's though.
Geraint SIP wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:37 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I use Linksys WIP 330 and the sound is good, talk time with full battery go >>> up to 2 hours, I'm happy with. >>> >>> >> Ahhh. OP wanted to know about wirelessly networked phones. Interesting >> as they are (and expensive -- the WIP-330 retails for $229 at >> voiplink.com), I was hoping this would be a thread about simply cordless >> IP (SIP or IAX) phones. I think these tend to be available at a more >> reasonable price. >> >> I have a Panasonic GLOBALRANGE BB-GT1500CB >> (http://www.panasonic.ca/english/telecom/telephones/globarange/index.asp) >> which technically is supposed to only work with the "Joip" service, but >> spoofing this phone to work with your Asterisk server is not too difficult. >> It's a reasonable phone at a reasonable price (CAN$70 the last time I looked >> at a retail shop) but I have found that it can "drop out" sometimes. >> >> I tend to think the drop-out is in the audio handling in the handset >> itself rather than anything on the network. It seems like it might be >> some kind of silence detection and optimization circuitry (i.e. not >> transmitting dead air to the base station) that just doesn't work in >> real-life as well as it did on paper. >> >> Also this Panasonic phone does not do call-waiting. When there is a >> call in session on it, an attempt to route a second call to it from >> Asterisk results in a "busy here" message back from the phone. :-( >> >> I wonder what else is out there in a more affordable "consumer" price >> range. I guess there is always ATAs and regular phones. I've always >> wondered though if there is any benefit to even a basic phone such as >> the GLOBALRANGE phones being native SIP vs. just using an ATA. I have >> not discovered anything this phone can do above and beyond what our >> standard cordless Panasonic phone does plugged into an ATA. >> >> b. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > For the most part, for day to day dialing, you won't see any really > significant difference between a WiFi phone and an ATA with a regular > cordless or DECT phone. You may lose the ability to dial SIP URIs > (although not all wifi sip handsets have this ability). > > However, in general, none of the true Wi-Fi phones we've tested other > than the Nokia E series have been worth mucking with. Dropping off APs, > poor NAT capability, low battery life, troublesome configurations, > random weirdness -- these seem to abound in the world of wi-fi SIP. This > is why the usual scenario for any sort of office-wide deployment > involves DECT. > > It's a shame, really. With wi-fi being so prevalent so many places we > go, and with the possibility for portability being outstanding, it's a > shame the hardware manufacturers haven't quite made anything worth buying. > > N. > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users