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Wi-Fi VoIP At 80 mph

Posted by timothy on from the 130-km/h-in-mexico dept.

fredo123 writes "Almost faster than a speeding bullet. As reported in Muniwireless minutes ago, RoamAD and WI-VOD have tested mobile VOIP over Wi-Fi at over 130 Km/h over an 8km stretch of Interstate highway somewhere near the Mexican border. Gee... I wonder what this is for?" No need to guess: according to the MuniWireless link, "the network is for public safety personnel (police, fire, ambulance and border patrol) first, with various community agencies, schools, business and local residents being added as the deployment expands beyond its targeted coverage areas."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And now for something completely different...

    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You being a n00b fucktard isn't different, and you even failed at that... Sorry! Now back to detention with you!

  2. And so what if it is? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do Mexicans have some divine right to ignore the laws of other countries?

  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The pope said so

    1. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah... Catholics are funny that way. They preach a lot of selflessness as long as it's other people being selfless. Nice of them to appoligize for the church's actions in WWII, only took half a century.

      I propose we catch all the illegal boarder crossing Mexicans in bear traps and ship them in unpressurized cargo aircraft to the Vatican. We can pay for this through the seizure and auction of church assets. Then everyone can be happy.

  5. Consumer access points: Speed of Roaming ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi,
    a question for the experts.
    Can you have an in-building WLAN with many access point and use a wi-fi VOIP phone, for example the hitachi WIP-5000
    http://www.abptech.com/mainpages/product s/HCL-Wire lessIP5000.html

    and walk through the building without get too long interruptions ? (ideal would be 1sec when roaming).

    Assume all APs are on the same subnet, so the client keeps his IP while roaming.

    Does consumer / enterprise class APs make a difference , or does it depend more from the client ?
    For example I tried two different brands of pocket PCs with a softphone and one brand roamed really bad (call dropped, took long to find associate to the new AP), while the other was more acceptable (a couple of secs dropout).
    The APs were two consumer APs (d-link).
    Tried the same with an XP laptop running xten and the roaming dropout was barely noticeable.

    Any direct experiences with VOIP over wi-fi roaming ?

    thanks,
    Mark