[Asterisk-Users] Recommendations on a WiFi phone for *?

Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) francesco at fampeeters.com
Mon Jan 9 23:59:27 MST 2006


On Tue, January 10, 2006 5:50, Ira said:
> At 05:44 PM 01/09/2006, you wrote:
>>We're getting our feet more and more wet with VOIP at work.  We want
>>to experiment with a good wireless (as in WiFi) phone.  What would
>>be a good phone to impress my boss with?
>
> I have the Zyxel P2000W V2 and while it has it's user interface
> annoyances, it's a great little phone and only $150 if you look hard
> enough.  The most annoying one is sleeping, I guess to save battery
> life but if you forget to wake it up it looses the first 3 or 4
> numbers you punch in.  But it worked perfect, the first IP phone I've
> ever had and once I figured out I had to put the WEP code in hex it
> registered and work perfectly, even had people tell me how good I
> sound. Zyxel to an * box out a TDM400 to a Linksys VOIP router to ATT
> Callvantage.
>
> Ira

Another, much cheaper option is to get DECT phones and connect them to
IAXy's:

DECT-PHONE ((( * ))) DECT-BASE----IAXy[=====IAX2=====]Asterisk-> TheWorld(tm)

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