I agree with the comments on the intended target market for this phone. In defense of Polycom, if your TFTP server is external you could connect to a remote access point by setting up WEP/WPA fairly easily from Starbucks or wherever you are. If it requires web authentication to get through the firewall then I suppose you would have a problem. Your config files would need to be location agnostic but that's not such a big deal.
This is the only WIFI phone I have come across that has decent reliability reviews and a "fairly" reasonable price point. Having had it for a couple days now, it is very simple for the user (not necessarily the admin). It appears that not all APs explicitly advertise in their specifications that they support WMM. I have an AP that supports WISH but nowhere do I see any documentation that it supports WMM but it works ok. I think WISH leverages WMM from the brief searching I did. Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Michael Graves wrote: > > >> It seems to me that based upon your comments you miss the point of the >> product. It's design targets large commercial concerns, school >> campuses, corporate parks, etc...not making free calls from Starbucks. >> > > Completely right. I assumed it was a generic wifi based SIP phone. > > >> I had one under test for several months and it behaved really well on >> my WLAN using a Netgear comsumer N type rouiter/AP with WMM. WMM is >> essentially a wireless QoS mechanism. Without it you cannot assure >> voice quality if there's anything else using the WLAN. >> >> Granted, the phone is a bit fiddly to provision. In it's intended >> target markets that's not a problem. If you want to make free calls >> from hotspots you're far better of with trashy consumer oriented stuff >> that has a built-in web browser. In many cases you need it to >> authenticate against the hotspot. >> >> The best option seems to be a SIP client on a dual mode cell phone. But >> then, why use the wifi when you have a cell phone in your hand? Minutes >> are cheap in either case. >> > > Because I still have this dream of having my extension in my hand. I've > had very poor luck with my iPhone and SIP clients I have tried. The best > I have been able to manage is X-Lite on my laptop, which actually works > very well. My laptop doesn't fit in my pocket, though, sadly :) > > There does seem to be a market, if small, for a wifi enabled SIP phone > that maybe isn't a full fledged cell phone. Although I can see how the > Polycom phone might be useful in a wide campus environment where it may > roam among many wifi nodes, that seems a pretty small market segment. For > a regular office or building a DECT phone plugged into an ATA seems to be > the way to go. The Polycom phone, totally against the norm for Polycom > IMO, looks and feels cheap and has funky buttons :) > > I actually haven't gotten mine to work at all. Mind pasting the config > that works for you? Just around the house here I am using DD-WRT on a > Linksys WRT54G, which does support WMM. > > Cheers, > > j > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
