[Asterisk-Users] Looking for a wireless phone... wifiortraditional wireless ?

Paul Fielding paul.fielding at shaw.ca
Thu Jan 13 10:34:45 MST 2005


You shouldn't need any port forwarding.   I've found any SIP phones I've 
worked with have happily moved from site to site behind NATs, etc.  So I see 
no reason to believe that the WiFi phone would be any different - it's just 
connecting wirelessly instead of with a wire.

And to answer your second question, I suspect some people would have very 
good use for such a phone.   Myself personally, I travel often - in the last 
6 weeks I've been home for precisely 4 days.  Most of the hotels, etc I stay 
at have wireless of one sort or another, most of my friends have wireless in 
their homes, may offices I work at have wireless.    So I could see very 
good use for having a wifi phone I can take with me....

regards,

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List -Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Looking for a wireless phone... 
wifiortraditional wireless ?


> In that example you could make outgoing calls only correct? (since 
> incoming
> likely needs port forwards)
>
> I guess the questions becomes "how often are you going to do that to 
> justify
> the extra $100 or so you going to pay for a wifi sip phone?"
>
>
>
>
> Paul Fielding (paul.fielding at shaw.ca) wrote:
>>
>> I think some people are missing the point.   You can't throw your 
>> cordless
>> phone in your pocket, go to your office, hotel or buddie's house, turn it 
>> on
>> and get a signal.     You can with a WiFi phone, however....
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kim Lux" <lux at diesel-research.com>
>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Looking for a wireless phone... wifi
>> ortraditional wireless ?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > I don't know why people keep making the statement about range with wifi
>> > versus a cordless phone.  I can easily get a good wifi signal when I'm
>> > over at my neighbors but can't get reception with our cordless (2.4GHz)
>> > phone.  (Both receivers are at home...)  It seems to me that the wifi
>> > range is at least as good as the phone range if not better.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the tip on the SIP phones.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 18:53 -1000, James H. Thompson wrote:
>> >> Uniden and Vtech both just announced cordless phones with SIP ATAs
>> >> built into the base station.
>> >> You get better range and battery life compared to a WiFi phone.
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>
>> >> James H. Thompson
>> >> jht at lj.net
>> >>
>> >>         ----- Original Message -----
>> >>         From: Kim Lux
>> >>         To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> >>         Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:49 PM
>> >>         Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Looking for a wireless phone...
>> >>         wifi or traditional wireless ?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         An unflattering zyxel review:
>> >>
>> >>         http://slacker.com/~nugget/asterisk3.php
>> >>
>> >>         I can't help but think my questions are out of place on this
>> >>         list... I'm
>> >>         asking questions about SIP phones and everyone else is talking
>> >>         about
>> >>         asterisk.  Sorry.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 20:08 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
>> >>         > My wife wants a cordless phone for around the house.  We are
>> >>         going to be
>> >>         > using VOIP exclusively very shortly.  Our current cordless
>> >>         phone is aged
>> >>         > and on the verge of replacement.  The other phone we are
>> >>         going to use is
>> >>         > a SIP Budgetone.
>> >>         >
>> >>         > Should I buy a SIP to POTS converter and a new cordless
>> >>         phone or a wifi
>> >>         > SIP phone ?
>> >>         >
>> >>         > Is anyone using the Pulver WiSIP phone ?  Any comments ?
>> >>         >
>> >>         > How about the zyxel ?
>> >>         >
>> >>         > Thanks
>> >>         >
>> >>         --
>> >>         Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
>> >>
>> >>
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>> > Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
>> >
>> >
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