Hello everyone. I know it's a little bit off-topic, but I was just wondering... Has anyone ever had any experience with asterisk, a wi-fi meshed lan (with more than one access point) and wi-fi sip phones? I made some tests but I'm not really satisfied.... Wi-fi phones are a curse (as far as I know even Nokia eSeries -I personally own an e70 model- have their flaws): - random sip registration failures - ridiculous battery life - bad audio quality even with optimal radio environments - crashes, system freezes - ... - slow responsiveness to asterisk "qualify" pings (OPTIONS) but I can even live with that. The major problem is... roaming between cells. Is that a dream or something that can actually work? Unfortunately I have to replace a good old DECT network (I know it'll never compare to DECT)... Alberto -- -- Alberto Pastore B-Press Srl - Gruppo MSoft P.IVA 01697420030 P.le Lombardia, 4 - 28100 Novara - Italy Tel. 0321-499508 Fax 0321-492974 http://www.msoft.it
You might check with Aastra, they are showing a DECT phone that will work with Asterisk via sip. I know the release is next year for me, but since you are in Europe it may be avaliable sooner. On 10/27/06, Alberto Pastore <alberto@msoft-italia.com> wrote:> > Hello everyone. > > I know it's a little bit off-topic, but I was just wondering... > > Has anyone ever had any experience with asterisk, > a wi-fi meshed lan (with more than one access point) > and wi-fi sip phones? > > I made some tests but I'm not really satisfied.... > Wi-fi phones are a curse (as far as I know even > Nokia eSeries -I personally own an e70 model- have their flaws): > > - random sip registration failures > - ridiculous battery life > - bad audio quality even with optimal radio environments > - crashes, system freezes > - ... > - slow responsiveness to asterisk "qualify" pings (OPTIONS) > > but I can even live with that. > > The major problem is... roaming between cells. > Is that a dream or something that can actually work? > > Unfortunately I have to replace a good old > DECT network (I know it'll never compare to DECT)... > > Alberto > > -- > -- > Alberto Pastore > B-Press Srl - Gruppo MSoft > P.IVA 01697420030 > P.le Lombardia, 4 - 28100 Novara - Italy > Tel. 0321-499508 > Fax 0321-492974 > http://www.msoft.it > > _______________________________________________ > --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 >-- Bruce Nortex Networks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061027/bddb0343/attachment.htm
On 2006-10-27 08:49:44 -0700, Alberto Pastore <alberto@msoft-italia.com> said:> Hello everyone. > > I know it's a little bit off-topic, but I was just wondering... > > Has anyone ever had any experience with asterisk, > a wi-fi meshed lan (with more than one access point) > and wi-fi sip phones?I don't think I have a "mesh" network technically speaking, but I have wired my how with two Zyxel X-550's one acting as a router to the internet and the other as a WDS repeater. This works well with my Nokia e60 (although the phone still has flaws).> > I made some tests but I'm not really satisfied.... > Wi-fi phones are a curse (as far as I know even > Nokia eSeries -I personally own an e70 model- have their flaws): > > - random sip registration failuresSaw that when I has issues with WIFI signal, once I got that sorted AND update the firmware on my Nokia e60, this seems to be fixed.> - ridiculous battery lifeHeh. No comparison to my old T68i which I would travel for a week with, and not bring the charger. The e60 is one day, if WIFI is used.> - bad audio quality even with optimal radio environmentsNot true here. I am using ulaw and it sounds fine.> - crashes, system freezesYes there where many, but the firmware updater resolve many of these. NOT perfect, but much better.> - ... > - slow responsiveness to asterisk "qualify" pings (OPTIONS)Again, an issue of firmware and WIFI coverage> > but I can even live with that. > > The major problem is... roaming between cells. > Is that a dream or something that can actually work?Mine works perfectly. Here is what I did. Set both bases to be locked to a particular channel(ie 6). Set both bases to be locked to 802.11b only.(don't know if this is necessary, but it works for me.) make sure that through both bases the same DHCP server is providing IP's (in my case neither of the WIFI bases is the DHCP server. Make sure they are close enough that there is no rough spot in the middle (for WDS this is closer then you might think). Set each WIFI router to have the mac address of the other in the WDS config. Make sure your network is secure. Random leeches can hurt you. Many WDS products ONLY support WEP, so this is an issue also. I am running 64 bit (40 bit) WEP, which is good enough to lock out the casual pucks. Good Luck, Marty> > Unfortunately I have to replace a good old > DECT network (I know it'll never compare to DECT)...Never is a long time ;~)
Are you using WDS? While it won't totally fix every issue, I've found in my trials that turning off WDS and making sure all the AP were connected to the same wired network was way more reliable, no more random unregistartion and issue with registering (still seems to unregister at times, but re-registartion won't require a reboot). On 10/27/06, Alberto Pastore <alberto@msoft-italia.com> wrote:> > Hello everyone. > > I know it's a little bit off-topic, but I was just wondering... > > Has anyone ever had any experience with asterisk, > a wi-fi meshed lan (with more than one access point) > and wi-fi sip phones? > > I made some tests but I'm not really satisfied.... > Wi-fi phones are a curse (as far as I know even > Nokia eSeries -I personally own an e70 model- have their flaws): > > - random sip registration failures > - ridiculous battery life > - bad audio quality even with optimal radio environments > - crashes, system freezes > - ... > - slow responsiveness to asterisk "qualify" pings (OPTIONS) > > but I can even live with that. > > The major problem is... roaming between cells. > Is that a dream or something that can actually work? > > Unfortunately I have to replace a good old > DECT network (I know it'll never compare to DECT)... > > Alberto > > -- > -- > Alberto Pastore > B-Press Srl - Gruppo MSoft > P.IVA 01697420030 > P.le Lombardia, 4 - 28100 Novara - Italy > Tel. 0321-499508 > Fax 0321-492974 > http://www.msoft.it > > _______________________________________________ > --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 >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061027/80b5e5fb/attachment.htm