setting up VoIP with wireless connection?

Khattab

Hi Guys,

I dunno a great deal about VoIP so i'm turning to you guys....

I i have a wireless connection from the building across the road which i have full access to (and currently administer). I am also looking at subscribing to a VoIP service (just the phone line - not the internet connection) which i would like to use with the wireless connection i have access to.

The question i have is, how do i do it? How do i (or should i say, can i) set up the VoIP phone to use the wireless connection from across the road? Can i get it working by plugging the VoIP phone into my laptop (i dont see how this would help??).

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

liven

Can this be done?


Sure...

If your wifi connection is stable and pretty error free you should be ok.


But speaking from experience it can be a nightmare.

Once I set up a wifi shot from building to building. This wifi shot passed data and voice traffic.

Well the roof of one building was not "controlled" and the owner let anyone and everyone who wanted to put an antenna up there do so. Every time I went up on that roof there was at least one more antenna... Over time all the channels were over saturated and the connection became very unstable. I found out the hard way that data deals with this type of a situation better than voice traffic does. Sure the data slows down, but the voice stuff just sounds like garbage. Now granted this was not a voip service like vonage or something like that. It was all in house....

Khattab

So is there anything in particular that i need to do?

Do i just get the VoIP phone and plug into into the eithernet port of my laptop and thats it? Nothing else i need to do?

dtlokee

No you will most likely need a wireless AP acting as a bridge to connect to the AP across the street. The VoIP provider will ususally provide you a gateway of some type that will connect you to their servers. I would also enable QoS on the wireless network and prioritize the VoIP traffic.

liven

dtlokee wrote:

No you will most likely need a wireless AP acting as a bridge to connect to the AP across the street. The VoIP provider will ususally provide you a gateway of some type that will connect you to their servers. I would also enable QoS on the wireless network and prioritize the VoIP traffic.

BUMP