Hooking up an extenstion via a wireless network bridge. Will lag be a killer?

[ghurty]

I am thinking about setting up an extension in my garage.
Instead of wiring a network cable to there, I was think about using a wireless network bridge.

My question is....

While I understand that there may be lag for the phone to start ringing, will the conversation be normal, or will the lag be a killer?

I would be using either b or g.


Thanks

 

[jroper]

Hi

Lag only becomes an issue when it reaches about 350ms according to tests done by Swisscomm. This suggests that the round trip ping time can be as high as 700ms.

VoIP usage above this time drops off rapidly where the customer has a choice of connections.

I have certainly done a PBX over a Satellite link, and it worked well with 50 or so extensions and a maximum of about 8 concurrent calls (it was an expensive top quality satellite set up.)- the ping times were about 590ms.

For a good quality connection, the thing to avoid is dropped packets, not lag time.

Joe

 

[fraggley]

Should be OK

I have used both iax2 and sip softphones on my laptop via wireless with no problems. Latency should be very low in a normal setup. Just ping your phone server via wifi to check this.