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Is VOIP Over WLAN DOA?

Posted by timothy on from the premature-death-certificate dept.

prostoalex writes "Voice-over-IP in Wireless LAN environment - a futurist's dream of always-on always-connected service. Guy Kewney from eWeek tests the technologies that try to satisfy this market today and finds nothing but disappointment. " The best result we got was that just once, I heard his voice with a delay of about 15 seconds, saying "You just have to speak up!"--which was part of a 20-second burst of speech from him. The rest was lost.""

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  1. That does it by worst_name_ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    VOIP over WLAN is DOA? WTF? I'm going back to DTMF over POTS ASAP!

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    1. Re:That does it by paul248 · · Score: 2, Funny

      STFU! (JK)

  2. Actually, the real question.... by Stick_Fig · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are acronyms overused, or is Slashdot focusing on making their posts palatable for SMS capable phones?

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  3. IMHO... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    VOIP/WLAN isn't DOA, but it might be MIA. OTOH CSCO, NT and LU have put a lot of money in IP that might result in BFD if they can improve their QOS ASAP. AFAIK, CSCO's VOIP/WLAN might present legal troubles although IANAL. But WTF, IYKWIM.

  4. someone... by abscondment · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone needs to implement this in PHP. Then we'd get some real performance.

  5. VOIP over WLAN? by Cytlid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it just me, or am I the only one who ever thought this was completely stupid? Some company came to where I work and had a big presentation on VOIP over wireless... I thought it was ridiculous.

    Let's see... you take your voice, turn it into packets to be reassembled a short distance away (espcially indoors). Ummm this has been around for millions of years... voices going "wirelessly" over the air... it's called "yelling".

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  6. VOIP WLAN DOA? (YAFIYGI) by joelparker · · Score: 5, Funny

    IMHO the VOIP RFC for WLAN was OK, FWIW.
    But IIRC, its FUBAR WRT the FCC and maybe IRS.
    A FOAF says the MSFT will BSOD it b/c its w/o DRM.
    IAC, the US DOJ, FBI, CIA & IRS also dislike it.
    So FTTB VOIP WLAN is SOL. HTH... HAND! -JPH

    1. Re:VOIP WLAN DOA? (YAFIYGI) by EMH_Mark3 · · Score: 2, Funny

      QED.

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  7. Obligatory... by cynic10508 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you hear me now?

  8. Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    VOIP (Voice Over Invisible Photons) over WLAN (Wimpy Lose-it-All Network) is DOA (Dropping Out Again)? WTF (Well, isn't That Fine)? I'm going back to DTMF (Deal with That Mother-Fscker) over POTS (Pissed-Off Technical Supervisors) ASAP (Real Soon Now)!

  9. Acronyms by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Funny

    > VOIP over WLAN is not DOA. If you tweak the QOS etc

    IANAE, but perhaps change the TCP/IP settings so you dont waste so many SYN/ACKs then upgrade the WIFI to 802.11g perhaps with a VPN/IPSEC or maybe SSH over RF ASAP. FWIW the WAP shoud be IEEE standards compliant, the company who sells it should be ISO9000 compliant too. HTH.

  10. Re:No Mr. Enderle. by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Funny
    The same people that don't change the default password on their Linksys wireless router?
    I thought we just found out that this was pointless anyway...
  11. Re:too early by Morth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Voice quality was so good, the whole thing was kind of anti-climatic

    Yeah, gotta hate those nonweathers.

  12. Re:too early by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    Ingredients: 1. PowerBook G4 2. Mac OS X 10.3 3. iChat AV 4. AirPort (802.11b version) 5. Comfy bed, little computer lap tray, Collie sitting on your feet (all optional)

    That's because Apple can do no wrong. If Steve Jobs were to come and take a dump on the average Mac fanatic's head they would claim it smells like fresh cut roses and ask for more. iChat AV is a miracle program clearer than the phone network itself! Uh huh.