Wireless to wired converter for IP Phones

[OldAndKnackered]

Howdy,

I came across a Cisco WBPN Wireless-N Bridge Adapter when on the internet. It would seem to be the sort of thing that I want, but does anyone know if it's any good, or could reccommend an alternative? We have a customer who has ordered a hosted VoIP system with deskphones, but didn't think that they needed structured wiring, on the basis that laptops/tablets/smartphones are IP devices and are wireless, ergo all IP devices must be wireless!?!?

 

[jrgood0852]

I don't know exactly what you require, but this place has almost every adapter you could need. Let me know if it helped. Thanks.................

http://www.l-com.com/content/TechnicalResources.html?cmp=hnav

Always look out for the next guy because it may be you!

 

[donb01]

So I'm sure I understand this, it sounds like what you are looking for is a little cube sort of thing that has a wireless adapter so it can connect to the wireless network, and then has an ethernet port so it can pass that through to the phone?

Here is a Netgear job on Amazon that's like $29:

http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WNCE2...&sr=1-2&keywords=wireless+to+ethernet+adapter

Thing I don't know is if your hosted provider is doing QoS, VLANs and stuff like that if these kind of gizmos are going to handle those functions. You would have to read up more....

One other caveat I can think of based on our network at work is that if you are using a Cisco Wireless Network, and you are using the LEAP protocol, that it is kind of a proprietary protocol and not a lot of devices can support that protocol (most of them will do PEAP and EAP, but not LEAP).

 

[intrigrant]

I wouldn't rely on Netgear, I have very, very bad experiences with it.
Buy a Wifi repeater from a decent brand which has LAN ports on it.

 

[jrgood0852]

As I stated, this place seems to have quality goods and, no, I am not affiliated with them in any shape or form:

http://www.l-com.com/content/TechnicalResources.html?cmp=hnav

Always look out for the next guy because it may be you!