The new WiFi Phone

Posts: 605 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:28 am Post subject:

I beleive you have to get an additional line. This is so you cannot use your WIFI phone away from home while someone is using the phone at home too. I could be wrong though.

Posts: 328 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 328

To go back to the original toipc here:

Cloning the Phone's MAC on the PC and logging into a hotel network should work fine. The IP address conflict may or may not be a problem - particularly if the PC is not using the SIP ports (if it is using the SIP ports - as with soft phone - then there definitely will be a problem).

I would also recommend getting a travel AP (Linksys and Netgear work very well, the D-Link travel model 730 is nice looking but has poor software). That is handy for hotels that offer wired LAN connections in room and WiFi elsewhere. If you plug the mini-AP/Router into the LAN and connect your PC through it, then the AP's MAC ends up registered to the hotel and the PC and WiFi phone both get private IPs off the NAT's router.

This gives you two advantages - your WiFi phone works AND you don't need to sit near the LAN jack in the room to use your PC.

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

I just got my WiFi phone and gave it a try. I must say that I am stunned by how well it works. I figured this would be version 1, "bleeding edge," barely works, kind of technology but I was wrong. I admit I've only made 2 calls with it so far, but the quality was perfect. I asked the other person if it sounds just like a cell phone call and they said "no, it sounds like a land line call."

So far so good. Now to see if I can make it work on access points that require authenticating via a web page. I will let you all know next week if the MAC address cloning works.

-S

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

A word of advice that may save you some money:

If you own any stock in Cingular, Verizon, or Sprint..... SELL!!!!

WIth cities such as San Francisco and New York planning to deploy wireless internet throughout their cities, it's only a matter of time until the GSM cell networks become worthless. This is the future.

-S

Posts: 4 · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: Already have Vonage

Hi, I've had Vonage for just over 1 year now. How do I get a F1000 WiFi phone? Everything I've seen shows it for new customers. Thanks, Dan

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 12

danrgray wrote:

Hi, I've had Vonage for just over 1 year now. How do I get a F1000 WiFi phone? Everything I've seen shows it for new customers. Thanks, Dan

I had to open a new line. If I like it, I'll probably cancel my home line and transfer the number.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 25, 2005 Posts: 4

sebgood wrote:

WIth cities such as San Francisco and New York planning to deploy wireless internet throughout their cities, it's only a matter of time until the GSM cell networks become worthless. This is the future.

-S

I doubt that. T-Mobile is reported coming out with UMA next year, combining the best of WiFi and GSM. Unless the only place you go is in the big cities offering WiFi, celluar will be around for years to come.