[Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone

[Dustin Goodwin]

I have not looked at products from every company but I do know a few
offer 100mbps FastEthernet connections to the switch and the PC.

- Dustin -

Andrew Thompson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dustin Goodwin" <nospam-arisk at voipexperts.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone
> 
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>>>I'm looking at ADSI phones simply because I don't have to re-tool my
> 
> entire
> 
>>>building; I can use the existing phone network and (I think) get all the
>>>functionality I need with the (far) cheaper ADSI phones.
>>>
>>
>>Why wouldn't you just use your existing Ethernet infrastructure putting
>>the  IP phones inline between the wall jack and the PC? There are a
>>number of IP phones that have builtin switch/hub that allows the PC to
>>daisy chain off the IP phone.
>>
>>- Dustin -
>>
> 
> 
> It was my impression that these phones had 10MB ehternet connections and not
> 100MB. Not that most of us would notice the difference in browsing the net,
> it does defeat the purpose of having 100MB switches. (I believe I also saw
> people on this list talking about strange things happening when they wired
> the phones/pcs up this way.)
> 
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