asterisk users - Jan 2005 - How to demo wired phone set on a wireless network

I need to demo a Grandstream phone to a customer, but his IT is not able 
to give me for the demo a Ethernet cable with DHCP!!!

I need therefore a "wireless hub" ??? with the upstream connection to 
wireless!!!
Since I do not know how to name it I cannot google it!

Has anybody done such thing?

bye

Ronald

Try getting a 'wireless bridge'

i have one set up with my gradstream sitting next to me... - Netgear 
ME101 is the model...


Cheers

Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
> I need to demo a Grandstream phone to a customer, but his IT is not 
> able to give me for the demo a Ethernet cable with DHCP!!!
>
> I need therefore a "wireless hub" ??? with the upstream
connection to
> wireless!!!
> Since I do not know how to name it I cannot google it!
>
> Has anybody done such thing?
>
> bye
>
> Ronald
>
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> I need to demo a Grandstream phone to a customer, but his IT is not able
> to give me for the demo a Ethernet cable with DHCP!!!
> 
> I need therefore a "wireless hub" ??? with the upstream
connection to
> wireless!!!
> Since I do not know how to name it I cannot google it!
> 
> Has anybody done such thing?
> 
I think what you are looking for is a wireless bridge.  I have never
used one, so I can't tell you which ones to look at, but it should do
what you want.  I'm sure D-Link, Linksys, etc.  make them.

Hope this helps,
Patrick

There are 2 options available to you.

If you know the brand of wireless access point, you are able to try find a
repeater or bridge for that particular brand. Eg. If they using dlink
equipmenk, the DWL2100 can act as a repeater for it. Quite a few brands of
wireless equipment will only bridge to the same brand.

The second option is to use a "generic" style bridge, ie. One that you
are
able to set to act as a "client" on their network. The Senoa
client/bridges
are ideal for this and have a good power output too. I believe some linksys
equipment does this too but I have never tried it.

One thing to be careful of, when you are using a bridge, rather than
client/bridge, some equipment maps its own mac address to the IP address you
use, and will not allow you to have more than one real ip on the other end
of the bridge. This caused a few problems for me


Hope this helps.

David Norton

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I need to demo a Grandstream phone to a customer, but his IT is not able 
to give me for the demo a Ethernet cable with DHCP!!!

I need therefore a "wireless hub" ??? with the upstream connection to 
wireless!!!
Since I do not know how to name it I cannot google it!

Has anybody done such thing?

bye

Ronald

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, David Norton wrote:
> If you know the brand of wireless access point, you are able to try find a
> repeater or bridge for that particular brand. Eg. If they using dlink
> equipmenk, the DWL2100 can act as a repeater for it. Quite a few brands of
> wireless equipment will only bridge to the same brand.
> 
> The second option is to use a "generic" style bridge, ie. One
that you are
> able to set to act as a "client" on their network. The Senoa
client/bridges
> are ideal for this and have a good power output too. I believe some linksys
> equipment does this too but I have never tried it.
> 
> One thing to be careful of, when you are using a bridge, rather than
> client/bridge, some equipment maps its own mac address to the IP address
you
> use, and will not allow you to have more than one real ip on the other end
> of the bridge. This caused a few problems for me
Minor nit: you can have as many ip numbers as you want, it is the mac 
address that is used and limited.

Apparently the process of establishing more than one mac address for one 
wireless client device is not standardized. I know that the Zyxel 
wireless access points and the cheap zyxel wireless adaptors can work 
together to connect several mac addresses. One has to read the 
specifications to find out what works.

Peter