[asterisk-users] Polycom Spectralink 8002 Configuration

[M Hulber]

I agree with the comments on the intended target market for this phone.  
In defense of Polycom, if your TFTP server is external you could connect 
to a remote access point by setting up WEP/WPA fairly easily from 
Starbucks or wherever you are.  If it requires web authentication to get 
through the firewall then I suppose you would have a problem.  Your 
config files would need to be location agnostic but that's not such a 
big deal.

This is the only WIFI phone I have come across that has decent 
reliability reviews and a "fairly" reasonable price point.  Having had 
it for a couple days now, it is very simple for the user (not 
necessarily the admin).

It appears that not all APs explicitly advertise in their specifications 
that they support WMM.  I have an AP that supports WISH but nowhere do I 
see any documentation that it supports WMM but it works ok.  I think 
WISH leverages WMM from the brief searching I did.

Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Michael Graves wrote:
>
>   
>> It seems to me that based upon your comments you miss the point of the
>> product. It's design targets large commercial concerns, school
>> campuses, corporate parks, etc...not making free calls from Starbucks.
>>     
>
> Completely right.  I assumed it was a generic wifi based SIP phone.
>
>   
>> I had one under test for several months and it behaved really well on
>> my WLAN using a Netgear comsumer N type rouiter/AP with WMM. WMM is
>> essentially a wireless QoS mechanism. Without it you cannot assure
>> voice quality if there's anything else using the WLAN.
>>
>> Granted, the phone is a bit fiddly to provision. In it's intended
>> target markets that's not a problem. If you want to make free calls
>> from hotspots you're far better of with trashy consumer oriented stuff
>> that has a built-in web browser. In many cases you need it to
>> authenticate against the hotspot.
>>
>> The best option seems to be a SIP client on a dual mode cell phone. But
>> then, why use the wifi when you have a cell phone in your hand? Minutes
>> are cheap in either case.
>>     
>
> Because I still have this dream of having my extension in my hand.  I've 
> had very poor luck with my iPhone and SIP clients I have tried.  The best 
> I have been able to manage is X-Lite on my laptop, which actually works 
> very well.  My laptop doesn't fit in my pocket, though, sadly :)
>
> There does seem to be a market, if small, for a wifi enabled SIP phone 
> that maybe isn't a full fledged cell phone.  Although I can see how the 
> Polycom phone might be useful in a wide campus environment where it may 
> roam among many wifi nodes, that seems a pretty small market segment.  For 
> a regular office or building a DECT phone plugged into an ATA seems to be 
> the way to go.  The Polycom phone, totally against the norm for Polycom 
> IMO, looks and feels cheap and has funky buttons :)
>
> I actually haven't gotten mine to work at all.  Mind pasting the config 
> that works for you?  Just around the house here I am using DD-WRT on a 
> Linksys WRT54G, which does support WMM.
>
> Cheers,
>
> j
>
>
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