Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-16 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 19:10 -0700, Andrew Hakman wrote: 2 cables is definitely the best, followed by a cheap gig switch at each desk. GB lan for interconnecting computers would be optimal. Seperate cabling for voip: ok, but i wouldn't put a switch at every desktop: A 100MB switch with

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-16 Thread Thomas Kenyon
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote: If you connect your pc with GB-lan card to an dual-ported ip-phone, you and up with an 100Mbps lan connection to your pc. Only way to avoid that, is to insert a cheap second lan-card in your pc, and connect your phone to

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-16 Thread Leif Neland
Jeff LaCoursiere skrev: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote: If you connect your pc with GB-lan card to an dual-ported ip-phone, you and up with an 100Mbps lan connection to your pc. Only way to avoid that, is to insert a cheap second lan-card in your pc, and connect your phone to

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-16 Thread Leif Neland
Hans Witvliet skrev: During my last blackout i found out that all but my switches were on the UPS... bummer! Coincidentially, in danish, oops is spelled ups. It also gives funny images when your packages are delivered by a company called Oops... Leif --

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Rob Hillis
On 01/15/10 17:54, randall wrote: hi all, i noticed that a lot of VOIP phones have a double network interface allowing you to use only 1 LAN cable for both the phone and your desktop, a really nice feature that can save a lot of cable, but most are 10/100 connections while i have a

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread randall
On 01/15/2010 12:41 PM, Rob Hillis wrote: On 01/15/10 17:54, randall wrote: hi all, i noticed that a lot of VOIP phones have a double network interface allowing you to use only 1 LAN cable for both the phone and your desktop, a really nice feature that can save a lot of cable, but most

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: randall To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 7:54 AM Subject: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection hi all, just subscribed to the list and first mail, nice to be here. Hopefully i'm in

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread randall
On 01/15/2010 02:00 PM, Leif Neland wrote: - Original Message - *From:* randall mailto:rand...@songshu.org *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Sent:* Friday, January 15, 2010 7:54 AM *Subject:* [asterisk-users] 10/100

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: randall To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection On 01/15/2010 02:00 PM, Leif Neland wrote: - Original Message

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread randall
On 01/15/2010 02:19 PM, Leif Neland wrote: - Original Message - *From:* randall mailto:rand...@songshu.org *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Sent:* Friday, January 15, 2010 2:11 PM *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, randall wrote: Sure. My point was just that IF you only got one connection in the wall, its cheaper to get a switch than getting a phone with dual 1Gbit ports. Leif OK, point taken. but i have 6xisdn2 and already 2x24 gigabit switches (will need to replace one

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread randall
On 01/15/2010 02:54 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, randall wrote: Sure. My point was just that IF you only got one connection in the wall, its cheaper to get a switch than getting a phone with dual 1Gbit ports. Leif OK, point taken. but i have 6xisdn2 and

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread David Backeberg
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, randall rand...@songshu.org wrote: does anybody know of another solution to this or is my conclusion above simply all the choice there is? So let me get this straight. You're planning on buying multiple Gigabit, PoE switches, and you're quibbling over the price

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread randall
On 01/15/2010 05:01 PM, David Backeberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, randallrand...@songshu.org wrote: does anybody know of another solution to this or is my conclusion above simply all the choice there is? So let me get this straight. You're planning on buying

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 14:11 +0100, randall wrote: its not the network switch that i'm worried about, its the build in switch of the phones with the double network card -- Hi, Don't think you'll find phone's with an internally gbit switch. As for voip it is not needed. If you connect

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Cary Fitch
If the phone is first, then it slightly limits the PC and rebooting the phone causes loss of contact with the PC. If the PC is first you have to have dual ports on it (a few bucks of hardware, plus configuration costs), then rebooting the PC causes the phone to loose contact with the world. Not

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote: If you connect your pc with GB-lan card to an dual-ported ip-phone, you and up with an 100Mbps lan connection to your pc. Only way to avoid that, is to insert a cheap second lan-card in your pc, and connect your phone to the second lan, so your pc

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Andrew Hakman
Windows, yes, but used to be through 3rd party software. Doubt this has changed as Windows has no focus on any useful network anything. Linux, yes, and it's definitely not complicated. Probably take 2 minutes to setup if you already had bridge utils installed, maybe 5 if you had to install the