asterisk users - Oct 2006 - WiFi Phones (was Looking for Wireless Heaset for Polycom 501)

Martin:

I had seen your other post and sent you a message off-list, but I never got
a response. What do you feel is the most lacking that does not make it ready
for a production enviroment.

-

I've been using a SIP deskphone in my office and usually some sort of ATA at
my house, both as the primary phone. I've also had mobile phones from almost
every carrier. Each one of these devices has offered just below the
reliability of the PSTN, maybe 96% vs 98% or so for the PSTN. But every
single WiFi phone I've tried has not gotten anywhere close to that. When
playing with these devices they are about 90% reliable, but for some odd
reason, moment I actually go to use it for a real call, something goes
wrong; the phone freezes or the network disconnects or it says its connected
but nothing happens when you try to place a call or the call is setup but
there is no audio, etc, etc, etc......  I just sort of figured that Nokia
would have gotten this one right.

Is there any chance you did not do this testing with the latest firmware? I
had heard that it really improves the SIP.

What is the potential market for a USD 200-300 WiFi SIP or IAX phone that is
known to be reliable. I haven't tested that many handsets, but the Linksys,
Pirelli, D-Link, 3Com, Neuf Twin, and who knows how many others are all made
by the same ODM so I don't think any of the variations might be any better.
There's a Samsung phone that was announced a while back but I can't find
anything of it, same for some Senao models and their site didn't load the
VoIP wifi page (404 error) months ago and is the same today. Cisco.... well
chan_sccp seems to have not been updated in 19 months and how feature-packed
is chan_skinny? Has anyone encountered a WiFi phone that is reliable besides
SpectraLink?


Regards,

Andrew

On 10/25/06, Martin Joseph <ast@stillnewt.org>
wrote:
>
> On 2006-10-25 15:00:52 -0700, "Andrew Joakimsen" <
joakimsen@gmail.com>
> said:
>
> >
> >
> > Also the Nokia E60 and E61 are hybird GSM/WiFi phones, when you have
> WiFi
> > coverage your calls will go over that technology and when you
aren't its
>
> > just a regular mobile. Works great if you only want to purchase one
> device,
> > and they both support Blackberry email.
> I use the e60 and although it's slick and very promising, it's
> definitely not ready for a "production" environment...
>
> Marty
>
>
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I'm using 7920 with chan_skinny (from 1.4branch), it working quite well
I reported some chan_skinny bugs in bugtracker and I can confirm, that 
are solved very quickly :-)
Is true, that chan_skinny have less features that chan_sccp, but more 
important for me is active development/maintenance

we also use Nokia E70 (with latest firmware that solve issues especially 
with low bitrate codecs),
so I think, that these combo phones have great perspective and excelent 
price/usability ratio  ;-)
PJ




Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> Martin:
>
> I had seen your other post and sent you a message off-list, but I 
> never got
> a response. What do you feel is the most lacking that does not make it 
> ready
> for a production enviroment.
>
> -
>
> I've been using a SIP deskphone in my office and usually some sort of 
> ATA at
> my house, both as the primary phone. I've also had mobile phones from 
> almost
> every carrier. Each one of these devices has offered just below the
> reliability of the PSTN, maybe 96% vs 98% or so for the PSTN. But every
> single WiFi phone I've tried has not gotten anywhere close to that.
When
> playing with these devices they are about 90% reliable, but for some odd
> reason, moment I actually go to use it for a real call, something goes
> wrong; the phone freezes or the network disconnects or it says its 
> connected
> but nothing happens when you try to place a call or the call is setup but
> there is no audio, etc, etc, etc......  I just sort of figured that Nokia
> would have gotten this one right.
>
> Is there any chance you did not do this testing with the latest 
> firmware? I
> had heard that it really improves the SIP.
>
> What is the potential market for a USD 200-300 WiFi SIP or IAX phone 
> that is
> known to be reliable. I haven't tested that many handsets, but the 
> Linksys,
> Pirelli, D-Link, 3Com, Neuf Twin, and who knows how many others are 
> all made
> by the same ODM so I don't think any of the variations might be any 
> better.
> There's a Samsung phone that was announced a while back but I can't
find
> anything of it, same for some Senao models and their site didn't load
the
> VoIP wifi page (404 error) months ago and is the same today. Cisco.... 
> well
> chan_sccp seems to have not been updated in 19 months and how 
> feature-packed
> is chan_skinny? Has anyone encountered a WiFi phone that is reliable 
> besides
> SpectraLink?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
> On 10/25/06, Martin Joseph <ast@stillnewt.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2006-10-25 15:00:52 -0700, "Andrew Joakimsen" <
joakimsen@gmail.com>
>> said:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Also the Nokia E60 and E61 are hybird GSM/WiFi phones, when you
have
>> WiFi
>> > coverage your calls will go over that technology and when you 
>> aren't its
>>
>> > just a regular mobile. Works great if you only want to purchase
one
>> device,
>> > and they both support Blackberry email.
>> I use the e60 and although it's slick and very promising, it's
>> definitely not ready for a "production" environment...
>>
>> Marty
>>
>>
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