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

[Steve Totaro]

> 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
>

Here is the DC metro area I drove to work with my laptop running network
stumber.  In the 35 miles it takes to get to the office I stumbled 310
wireless networks and more than half of those were wide open.  At least in
this area, a wifi phone can almost replace a cell.