I was thinking ethernet-over-power myself, but I haven't tried it yet.... That plus those 8 port netgear POE switches might work well.
PaulH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Bagnall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:40 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Connecting asterisk over consumer wifi network > > So, I'd like to get some feedback on how it > > might work if we > >simply put a wireless access point at each workstation, and > > used the 4 port switch to connect to the PC + polycom handset. > > In my experience, wireless signals have a really poor range in elderly > buildings - they're usually built of much stronger stuff than the hollow > plasterboard partitioning you get in many newer premises. > > > In old buildings, I have utilized existing cabling with a > > channel bank and analog phones. Many times, if you do a > > little searching, you will find that there is old school 25 > > pair cables running though the building. If you can find > > that cable near where you would like phones, just take a pair > > and put in a jack. > > If you've already got existing analogue telephone cabling into each area > where your workstations are located and it's reasonable quality cable (i.e. > at least 2 pair, some sort of twisted pair arrangement) you may be able to > re-use that to create the equivalent of Cat 3 structured cabling. Quite > often you can even get away without the cable being twisted pair, just as > long as you've got 2 pairs to work with. > > You might also want to consider HomePlug (ethernet-over-power) as a > possibility for something relatively low bandwidth devices like IP phones. > Put one of those into each work area, plug a small desktop switch into each > of them and you'll have however many ports you need for the phones. > > I would be inclined to avoid wireless if at all possible, particularly if > coverage is marginal or if the clients (in this case APs) are constantly > changing between different repeating stations. > > Regards, > > Chris > -- > C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited > This email is made from 100% recycled electrons > > > _______________________________________________ > --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 > _______________________________________________ --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
