Steven McCann wrote: > Has anyone had any experience running an Asterisk VOIP system over a > wireless LAN? Running cat-5 cable to many of them is not an option,
Yes, in as long as the wireless lan is working properly (ie no high amounts of interference etc), I've never had a problem, at one stage I had an asterisk box hooked up to a wifi bridge adapter until cabling could be installed (long story). VoIP uses very little data compared with the available bandwidth of 802.11a/g or even plain old b for that matter. > Another question I had would be that if the current phones and RJ-11 > cable that is already buried could be used with the new asterisk system, > and still support using two lines and the intercom function. This would > save some time and money in intergrating the system and allow further > development to be done later. We were looking at using ATA adapters to > convert the VOIP signal to RJ-11, but with using these adapters would > the same functionality of the phones be available? You can use ATAs over normal twisted pairs but you loose out on some of the nicer features/usability of SIP handsets. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."
