I’ve just setup two IP phones this weekend and was surprised how simple the whole process was.
My partner Ann talks to her mother on the phone each day and often her mother calls us as well, so they are on the phone to each other at least three times a day if not more.
So I thought it was about time I did something about this, given that I had convinced Annâs parents to be a host one of Air-Streamâs APs on their roof, it seemed an ideal situation to really test the voip system over wireless. Specially as it will give her parents another really good reason for keeping those strange Antennas on their roof, other than just good community spirit.
At home I have set up a local AP which is on the Air-Stream network and could already connect to this using a wireless SIP phone I have ZyXEL P2000W WiFi .
I also had another Grandstream BudgeTone 101 which is an Ethernet phone so to make that wireless I connected directly to an old Minitar. This was the idea choice for Annâs parents as it looks and operates like any domestic phone. The Minitar I told them was just a modem to connect them on the network. This was an easy concept for two people in their late +60s.
The Minitar was used to associated to the AP on their roof and then it was just a matter of configuring the handset to have an IP on the Air-Stream network.
I got an account for them on the Air-Stream Asterisk Server and once this was done I configured each handset with outgoing and proxy SIP settings to pont to the Asterisk Server at 10.114.2.4.
It really worked well and the sound quality is better than that of a domestic phone other than the odd click here there, due to data traffic on the network, but I expect Qos might fix this, but still not that you would notice.
Also the handsets work just like a normal phone and it took Annâs mum no time to start using it frequently ;-|