[asterisk-users] Re: Best inexpensive home office router forVoIP (QoS with maybe PoE)

[Mark Coccimiglio]

Jon Pounder wrote:

>
> you should take your own advice  - an acre is 200ft x 200ft - what 
> idiot would
> pay a consultant $7000 to tell them they need one access point in the 
> middle.
>

I have a BA in Electronic Engineering, a Masters in Computer Science and 
I'm an FCC licensed
radio operator.  I think I know what I'm talking about.

  Life isn't always as simple as that.  What if  its a warehouse that is 
60x800ft.  still about an acre
(I've seen this one myself).  How will the system perform once the empty 
space is occupied with
inventory?  How will metal shelving effect performance.  What hardware 
should you use?  Netgear,
dLink, Linksys, Cisco (they are different), Alvarion, Proxima? If its an 
outside area an AP in the
"middle" is not necessarly practicle.  You can't just use any antenna 
combination you want  There are
rules governing use.  Are you certified to assemble and test such a 
system for Part 15 compliance?
Do you know the specs and ERP limits?  Who has presidence FCC or OSHA 
regs?  What about
other ISM bands?  How long can you make your ethernet runs or should you 
use Fiber Optics? 
These are the types of things that an Engineer addresses. 

"...one access point in the middle. "  It may work it may not.  One 
thing for sure is that the system
probably won't perform as you expect it.

Mark C