Hi List, Hope everyone is recovering from the festive season :) (ok we still have new years i guess!) Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had any successful dealings with WiFi phones and operation with '*' at all? I've been keeping my eye on the LinkSys WIP330 ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/nccxn ) and wondered your collective thoughts? Would I be correct in thinking that (as long as the relevant ports were open on the firewall) it would be possible to still be an extension to * if you could access the internet from, say, a wifi hot spot that was not a part of the lan? Thanks Wayne .
I bought a WIP300 to test and it was aweful. It would either not register a keypress or register it twice. It would also freeze up few minutes at a time. It looks like the WIP330 has a new keypad, so maybe that problem is gone. The WIP300 worked with asterisk, but I can not recall the quality at this point. -- -- Steven http://www.glimasoutheast.org "Wayne" <Wayne@planetWayne.com> wrote in message news:45943509.3080107@planetWayne.com...> Hi List, > Hope everyone is recovering from the festive season :) (ok we still have new years i guess!) > > Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had any successful dealings with WiFi phones and operation with '*' at all? > > I've been keeping my eye on the LinkSys WIP330 ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/nccxn ) and wondered your collective thoughts? > > Would I be correct in thinking that (as long as the relevant ports were open on the firewall) it would be possible to still be an > extension to * if you could access the internet from, say, a wifi hot spot that was not a part of the lan? > > Thanks > Wayne > > . > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Bryan M. Johns
2006-Dec-28 14:54 UTC
[asterisk-users] Re: [OT] Wifi SIP phones - LinkSys WIP330
I recommend the hitachi wifi phones for use with asterisk. Bryan M. Johns Partner Shelton Johns Technology Group Office: (678) 248-2637 X: 1500 Direct: (678) 229-1809 http://www.sheltonjohns.com **Sent from my mobile phone** -----Original Message----- From: "Steven" <asterisk@tescogroup.com> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: 12/28/2006 4:30 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] Re: [OT] Wifi SIP phones - LinkSys WIP330 I bought a WIP300 to test and it was aweful. It would either not register a keypress or register it twice. It would also freeze up few minutes at a time. It looks like the WIP330 has a new keypad, so maybe that problem is gone. The WIP300 worked with asterisk, but I can not recall the quality at this point. -- -- Steven http://www.glimasoutheast.org "Wayne" <Wayne@planetWayne.com> wrote in message news:45943509.3080107@planetWayne.com...> Hi List, > Hope everyone is recovering from the festive season :) (ok we still have new years i guess!) > > Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had any successful dealings with WiFi phones and operation with '*' at all? > > I've been keeping my eye on the LinkSys WIP330 ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/nccxn ) and wondered your collective thoughts? > > Would I be correct in thinking that (as long as the relevant ports were open on the firewall) it would be possible to still be an > extension to * if you could access the internet from, say, a wifi hot spot that was not a part of the lan? > > Thanks > Wayne > > . > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Hi Wayne, I was a very lucky guy this christmas, and received a D-Link DPH-540. Despite the very "first gen" feel of the phone, I have been very impressed so far. You are correct in thinking that it can act as an extension external to your network. So long as the place you're in has a decent router, it shouldn't be a problem. I have tested the phone within my local network, as well as on three other wifi networks that my friends gave me the WEP keys for, and I was able to register fine, as well make and receive calls without issue. On one network, I needed to turn the registration refresh down to 90 seconds (down from one hour) to keep the NAT hole open (but I have to do that with my Polycom 501 at the office too). I set the phone to use G729 (to lower bandwidth usage), and I've found the quality to be great. Depending on where I was, there was a slight delay, but that's typical of any IP phone outside the local net if the router is QoSing VoIP or the net connection isn't up to snuff. The only negative things I have to say about the phone are: 1) You can only store 6 network profiles. I can think of 5 off the top of my head that I visit frequently. If the 6th is left unused for open APs, what happens when I find a sixth wifi enabled venue that I visit? Hopefully this is an artificial limit that will be upped with a firmware upgrade. 2) The refresh rate is _terrible_. It's not really an issue since you're generally not looking at the screen except for dialing, but it would be nice to see some type of fluid refresh. 3) Data entry is rough. There are only two input modes: text or numeric. The text mode defaults to uppercase characters, and if you want to enter a lowercase character, you have to cycle through all the uppercase characters on a key before you reach the lowercase ones. For example, a lowercase "a" takes four taps of the 2 key. WEP keys are case-insensitive, so that doesn't matter, but phone book entries are a nightmare. The only saving grace for this is that you can access the phone via a web interface and edit your phone book from there. I've found that I get a number from someone, type their name quickly in uppercase and then fix it later via PC when I'm connected at home. Cheers, Alex On 12/28/06, Wayne <Wayne@planetwayne.com> wrote:> > Hi List, > Hope everyone is recovering from the festive season :) (ok we still have > new years i guess!) > > Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had any successful dealings with > WiFi phones and operation with '*' at all? > > I've been keeping my eye on the LinkSys WIP330 ( > http://preview.tinyurl.com/nccxn ) and wondered your collective thoughts? > > Would I be correct in thinking that (as long as the relevant ports were > open on the firewall) it would be possible to still be an extension to * > if you could access the internet from, say, a wifi hot spot that was not > a part of the lan? > > Thanks > Wayne > > . > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- Alex Robar alex.robar@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061228/758e3457/attachment.htm
Guido Hecken
2006-Dec-28 16:13 UTC
RE: [asterisk-users] [OT] Wifi SIP phones - LinkSys WIP330
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Wayne [mailto:Wayne@planetWayne.com] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2006 22:20 > An: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Betreff: [asterisk-users] [OT] Wifi SIP phones - LinkSys WIP330 > > Hi List, > Hope everyone is recovering from the festive season :) (ok we > still have > new years i guess!) > > Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had any successful > dealings with > WiFi phones and operation with '*' at all? > > I've been keeping my eye on the LinkSys WIP330 ( > http://preview.tinyurl.com/nccxn ) and wondered your > collective thoughts? > > Would I be correct in thinking that (as long as the relevant > ports were > open on the firewall) it would be possible to still be an > extension to * > if you could access the internet from, say, a wifi hot spot > that was not > a part of the lan? > > Thanks > WayneWe tried the Siemens Gigaset SL75 W-LAN in a customer's asterisk installation. Voice quality is superb, standbytime and range are ok, looks really convincing. Pricing about 169.- ? Regards Guido
Gordon Henderson
2006-Dec-28 16:44 UTC
[asterisk-users] [OT] Wifi SIP phones - LinkSys WIP330
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Wayne wrote:> Hi List, > Hope everyone is recovering from the festive season :) (ok we still have new > years i guess!) > > Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had any successful dealings with WiFi > phones and operation with '*' at all?I've been using an UT Starcom F1000G for a while now, and so-far so good. It has a bit of a "toy" feel to it - monochrome display, but actually, it seems to do what it says it does on the back of the packet, and it's battery life is amazing! (3 days on standby) There is a higher grade model in a clam-shall design with a colour screen, but as far as I could tell (a friend has one) it has exactly the same functionality as the "bar" one I have. It does occasionally lose contact with the base station, but it also has a (good!) knack of finding open access points (when I've been quite surprised to hear it's connection beep go off in my pocket, and then had the ability to make calls through it to my office * server!) I'm not sure I'm quite ready to recommend it to my paying customers yet, but thats probably because they are using rubbish WiFi systems. (I'm not a fan of WiFi, but after building a few community broadband systems out of it will tolerate it!)> Would I be correct in thinking that (as long as the relevant ports were > open on the firewall) it would be possible to still be an extension to * > if you could access the internet from, say, a wifi hot spot that was not > a part of the lan?The F1000G will talk to a STUN server to get round NAT, so as long as the router that hot-spot is connected to isn't doing any real firewalling, just NAT, it "just works" ... I've been able to enter WEP and WPA keys into it through the keypad, without too much difficulty - I guess it would be much easier if you were an SMS junkie though (my mobile phones have always been Nokia communicators with a qerty keyboard for sending messages, so I've never really gotten into using the numbers pad to compose text or search the contacts list!) The one down-side is that if you are connecting to an AP that has a web based front-end to let you enter your usenrame/password or credit card details (eg. BT OpenWallet) then you're stuffed as it doesn't have a web browser. Gordon