[Asterisk-Users] Wireless LANs and Asterisk

[Scott Laird]

On Feb 10, 2005, at 2:39 PM, jurgen wrote:
>
> This is interesting - it's something that I've been considering doing
> for the Asterisk rollout at my company. We don't have enough Ethernet
> ports and I'm not thrilled about the expense of re-wiring the place.
>
> Have you tried D-Link's dual-channel gear for even more bandwidth, or
> do you feel that bandwidth is not really a problem? How resilient is
> 802.11g against interference from other sources? Microwave ovens,
> gigarange phones, etc.
>
> Thanks for reporting your success here to the list, just proves I'm
> not alone with my funny ideas.

For what it's worth, I tried using a 7940G with a Linksys WET-11 at 
home for a few months, and it just wasn't reliable enough to work.  The 
WET11 was only ~40 feet from the base station, but it'd still drop off 
the net from time to time, and there were tons of random packets 
dropped.  I ended up spending a weekend pulling Cat 5, and life's been 
a lot better since then.  My laptop has similar problems with wireless 
in the same location, but it's a lot easier to put up with a few lost 
packets when reading mail or browsing the web--lost VoIP packets stand 
out like a sore thumb.


Scott