[Asterisk-Users] Survey: Grandstream improvements.........

[Michael T Farnworth]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, rnc Info Lists wrote:

> Michael,
> How would you be able to connect all phones in a room to one socket?  The
> Ethernet specificiation has a limit to the number of hubs/switches that
> can be inline.  (or at least it used to).  The only way I can see to
> connect all phones to one socket would be to daisy chain them.  This would
> not be a good solution since:
> - all phones would use the same 10mbps segment, chances for collisions
>   would be high
> - rules of Ethernet would be violated so even if it did work it may stop
>   at any point with some other normally minor change.

I defer to your knowledge in this area, but I would be interested to know 
what the limit is in terms of the number of devices that can be put 
inline.

On the subject of collisions it seems to me that individual phone
bandwidth use is relatively limited when compared to the 10Mbit/s
available, so would the problem really be that substantial?

Personally I currently have:

Hub <-> Phone <-> Phone <-> Laptop

No visible problems here, so certainly 3 phones in a line would seem to 
work.  I suppose it all comes down to how many phones you put in a line.

Michael