[Asterisk-Users] Looking for a wireless phone... wifi or traditional wireless ?

[Paul]

I saw that news but couldn't seem to find any price/availability info yet.

I wonder how well they will work if everyone in the home or office has 
one. I always liked the old-fashioned approach where switches were used 
to explicitly select a channel. My guess would be that multiple wifi sip 
phones will coexist better.

I have heard credible reports from my own customers of cordless phones 
and wireless lan clashes. It was credible because I was on the phone 
talking with them. When they switched to their cordless phone the laptop 
PC would lose it's network connection. I also had them call me using the 
cordless phone while the nearby laptop was turned off. When they booted 
it up and opened a web browser I could hear the interference at my end 
and sometimes we lost all sound. When the customer switched back to his 
old 900 mhz cordless phone we didn't have the problem anymore.

For those reasons I am desperately hoping that wifi sip phone prices 
will rapidly fall.

Paul

James H. Thompson wrote:

> Uniden and Vtech both just announced cordless phones with SIP ATAs 
> built into the base station.
> You get better range and battery life compared to a WiFi phone.
>  
> Jim
>  
> James H. Thompson
> jht at lj.net <mailto:jht at lj.net>
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Kim Lux <mailto:lux at diesel-research.com>
>     *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>     <mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:49 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Asterisk-Users] Looking for a wireless phone...
>     wifi or traditional wireless ?
>
>
>     An unflattering zyxel review:
>
>     http://slacker.com/~nugget/asterisk3.php
>     <http://slacker.com/%7Enugget/asterisk3.php>
>
>     I can't help but think my questions are out of place on this
>     list... I'm
>     asking questions about SIP phones and everyone else is talking about
>     asterisk.  Sorry.
>
>
>     On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 20:08 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
>     > My wife wants a cordless phone for around the house.  We are
>     going to be
>     > using VOIP exclusively very shortly.  Our current cordless phone
>     is aged
>     > and on the verge of replacement.  The other phone we are going
>     to use is
>     > a SIP Budgetone.
>     >
>     > Should I buy a SIP to POTS converter and a new cordless phone or
>     a wifi
>     > SIP phone ?  
>     >
>     > Is anyone using the Pulver WiSIP phone ?  Any comments ?
>     >
>     > How about the zyxel ?
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     -- 
>     Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
>
>
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