On 12 Feb 2005, at 19:46, eric m wrote:
Hi!
I would like to have feedback on wireless (wifi / 802.11b) IP phone to use
with Asterisk PBX. Can you sugest model, The best and also the worst to
use.
I've been using the Zyxel P2000 for a month or so now. I was going to deploy several of them around the office, but after living with it for a while I'm not so sure.
Good points:
1) it is light, feels fine and sounds fine (*)
2) it looks unthreatening and it works.
3) it is relatively cheap.
4) it gets on ok with *
Bad points:
1) The UI is a disaster. I (often) press digits too fast for it
(This is unforgivable in a phone....)
2) It (almost) always swallows the first digit 'unlocking' itself.
3) Configuring WEP keys is a royal pain but you only do this a few times
4) the web gui is odd, but usable in IE (only)
5) picking it up off the charger doesn't auto-answer,
you learn this quite quickly when you put it to your ear
between rings and then it rings again. (talk about loud!)
(*) it took a fair amount of work to get to the point where the sound is
acceptable, you need either:
ulaw and no WEP
or
G729 and wepBasically the chip doing WEP can't cope with 8k/s ulaw, but using g729 slows the data rate down enough for it to keep up.
in a WLAN where asterisk is 'near' you seem to get better results by turning
the packet sizes down, it is shipped tuned for internet use.
In essence I think that the phone would be ok with a 50% faster CPU, but I guess the weight and power figures would suffer.
So _definitely_ don't buy a box load until you have tried one for a while.
Tim
Thanks,
eric.
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