voip handsets

daveyp · 31 Dec 2007 at 15:05

Can i attach an office voip phone to a wireless ethernet bridge and make it wireless?

Hope i made some sense in that

blastman · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:13

i'm no expert, but I'd say no. the limited knowage i have on this subject tells me that the phone has to be plugged in to the VPN router connected to the internet, bridging a connection to another device I don't think will work.

(just my thoughts..)

tolien · 31 Dec 2007 at 20:09

It depends on the phone - if it's an actual VoIP phone, it doesn't have to be plugged into any particular device.
The VoIP (rather than VPN) "socket" that I think blastman's thinking of is a built-in ATA (Analogue Telephone Adapter) for connecting analogue phones. While you could connect a separate ATA to a wireless bridge and then to the router, you obviously can't connect an analogue phone directly to the wireless bridge.

blastman · 31 Dec 2007 at 20:21

Tolien said:
It depends on the phone - if it's an actual VoIP phone, it doesn't have to be plugged into any particular device.
The VoIP (rather than VPN) "socket" that I think blastman's thinking of is a built-in ATA (Analogue Telephone Adapter) for connecting analogue phones. While you could connect a separate ATA to a wireless bridge and then to the router, you obviously can't connect an analogue phone directly to the wireless bridge.

well i did say i was no expert.

daveyp · 1 Jan 2008 at 03:30

Tolien said:
It depends on the phone - if it's an actual VoIP phone, it doesn't have to be plugged into any particular device.
The VoIP (rather than VPN) "socket" that I think blastman's thinking of is a built-in ATA (Analogue Telephone Adapter) for connecting analogue phones. While you could connect a separate ATA to a wireless bridge and then to the router, you obviously can't connect an analogue phone directly to the wireless bridge.

Yes it will be a voip handset with an ethernet port, so Toilen sounds like a wireless ethernet bridge would work.