On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 09:26 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > A wifi phone with bluetooth and a sane set of ringers and soft button control > would be the cat's ass. So far there is no such thing, though. :-(
Gotta be careful, bluetooth is quite piggy in the rf spectrum, combining that with a 802.11b/g device which uses the same set of spectrum, given how close the BT and wifi antennas would be to each other would cause a dramatic reduction in range from the AP due to desensitizing the antennas of the other rf unit. Basically the two dont play well together especially when the antennas are close. now 802.11a would be fine as that is a different frequency band. You also need to be careful about network saturation, wifi is half duplex, which means that each unit as well as the access point (well most of em, a couple have 2 radios to compensate for this problem) can only send or receive at any given time. If you have a busy network, you will see audio quality go downhill even if there is enough signal. Its generally not noticable on web/email/etc but is when you are doing unbuffered realtime streaming. Now if your network is idle its not usually a problem, but as you increase the amount of data on that network you run into more potentials for this to become a problem. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.trxtel.com the VoIP provider that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
