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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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  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. 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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  4. 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

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

    Can you hear me now?

  6. 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.