Anybody use the J179 with the wireless connections yet?

[Z-man]

Just curious if anyone can give me some feedback as to how well the wireless connection works on the J179 phones. I have a customer that wants to deploy some of these phones at the homes of their telecommuters, most of which just use wifi... So being unable to really hard wire a phone in, this no becomes an option. I would have to upgrade them to R11, so I want to do my homework before they pull the trigger.

thx

 

[sizbut]

It works fine. I've only done it with one phone but its been here in my house and connected to a Containerized IP Office system for months now.

I would be wary of doing as a solution for multiple phones at the same site and retaining voice quality, but what you describe is exactly the scenario its useful for, a remote location where the domestic hub doesn't do PoE.

Stuck in a never ending cycle of file copying.

 

[JKillops]

I have a customer who has 8 within there office, they all work great and with no issues other then some areas with low Wifi signal.

 

[Westi]

Have a customer in a big building that has 10 phones and the voice quality is intermittent crap because they have so many different WiFi networks around that the bandwidth fluctuates.
They found 25+ different SSID's within range and they fight of course for bandwidth.

We tried it out in our office where we only have 2 other WiFi networks bleeding in and it worked OK

Joe
FHandw, ACSS (SME)

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