On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 12:39 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with wireless LANs and Asterisk? > > We have and here are my impressions. > > We configured an Asterisk in the office as a precaution to see how it > would work for our own retail customers. Our office is open space, about > 800 sq ft. (20x40 area). We use Snom200 and Grandstream SIP phones. > > Using the latest Linksys wireless access point (WAP54g) and 3 wireless > bridges (WET54g), I have found that it works most of the time with WPA > encryption on, but will occasionally drop voice (loosing packets). With > no encryption on the WLAN it seems to work without a hitch! Using a less > CPU intense encryption such as 64bit WEP, things also work fine. There > must be too much delay with higher rate encryption. > > Also we had one bridge that seemed to be a week puppy in the litter. It > could only muster 60-70% signal strength. It seemed to have problems > under all configurations. Finally we positioned it such that it too > works well running WEP 64b. I wonder if having 3 wireless bridges in > close proximity would have anything to do with the signal strength? I > would doubt it though. > > Anyone else with other experiences to share regarding wireless LANs and > encryption? I'd me interested to hear them.
I wonder if you wouldn't have been better off price and performance wise to have used the 10 mbit to powerline adapters. For corded phones, you have to be at a power outlet and you could easily have bought a few of them for the same price as one bridge. My recent playing with a wireless bridge semi annoyed me. I had to put a firewall behind it to get more than 1 device to hop the bridge. I do have to admit though that I enjoy only plugging into power for my remote office space now. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users