On Saturday 15 April 2006 13:51, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > One of the options, of course, is to go wireless. Thing is, there's more to > wireless than just a lack of cables.
Not much anymore... Unless you start talking about some of the things below... I know enough to be dangerous as far as radio goes (signal clarity, antenna theory, beam shape, fresnel zones, path/cable/connector loss, etc.), but then again getting basic wireless set up isn't much of a problem. The legal stuff (channels, EIRP, etc.) isn't too tough either, as is the basic setup, antenna selection and stuff. Relating this to VOIP is where I fall short. Minimizing latency is one thing, but I'm thinking more of handoff from one access point to another in a cluster (i.e. in that metal building scenario you'd mentioned). As far as cheap gear goes, I wouldn't cheap out on the APs. You don't need Cisco/Avaya/Whatever gear with the VOIP prioritization; WRT54GLs will be far more effective than any commercial closed-source gear. I'd bet my least-cost routing on it. Mind you, I think we all think that way or we wouldn't be using Asterisk. -A.
