Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi SIP phones

2008-08-13 Thread Lelio Fulgenzi
We use SpectraLink on our campus, have been for a while..they do fine in our animal hospital when they are accidentally dropped into a vat of goo. Most of the things they don't like have been fixed in the newer versions. Were actually considering extending the life of them by integrating the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi SIP phones

2008-08-13 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Linksys and ruggedized don't go in the same sentence. ;) I would recommend at looking at Spectralink (now Avaya) and ASCOM. Those are the only two that are anywhere near ruggedized. Frank From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless policies for students

2008-08-13 Thread Susan P Harris
--On Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:17 PM -0400 Lee H Badman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Monte- This isn't what you're looking for as asked, but it is worth mentioning that if you put wireless out there, people are going to expect to be able to use it- for everything. Especially after it catches o

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless policies for students

2008-08-13 Thread heath.barnhart
The problem with rogues isn't going to be increases in bandwidth utilization but interference. From what I've seen student's usually just set them up with the default configurations. As G is the most popular WiFi specification their is going to be 66% chance the rouge will be on the same channe

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless policies for students

2008-08-13 Thread Matthew Gracie
Monte Schmeiser wrote: We are fairly new to wireless at our institution and was wondering if anyone out there could help us. We are getting ready to roll out wireless to the students next week. Because we are a small institution, we have limited resources, and thus, limited bandwidth. We hav

WiFi SIP phones

2008-08-13 Thread Nathan Hay
We are looking for a WiFi SIP phone to deploy to students in the field for communication with each other and supervisors. Something that is ruggedized would be preferred, but we are considering the Linksys WIP330 as an option. We have an Asterisk server that the phone can use, but we would als

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless policies for students

2008-08-13 Thread Sam Stelfox
You might want to look at ways to shape all outgoing traffic if bandwidth is an issue. There isn't any reason to limit on site traffic and it could become very frustrating doing something as simple as pulling a large file off of a file server. If your wireless product supports limiting only traffic