Re: Calling for free using wifi devices

John Navas wrote:
> How could that possibly work? Don't you want to talk to anyone outside
> of the range of that one Wi-Fi LAN?
Exactly, only within ragne of wifi lan.
> If you do, traffic has to go over the Internet.
Don't think i'm stupid. Sure i know it.
What i'm intrested in:
1) Is there any software for WM which makes direct voip calls.
2) What is the stable range of mobile wifi adapters.

On 23 Jul 2006 10:53:45 -0700, "q23r" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>John Navas wrote:
>> How could that possibly work? Don't you want to talk to anyone outside
>> of the range of that one Wi-Fi LAN?
>Exactly, only within ragne of wifi lan.

Why not just talk face to face?

>> If you do, traffic has to go over the Internet.
>Don't think i'm stupid. Sure i know it.
>What i'm intrested in:
>1) Is there any software for WM which makes direct voip calls.
>2) What is the stable range of mobile wifi adapters.

A few hundred feet at most outdoors, less with intervening walls and/or
interference. I doubt that you'll have enough range to make it
practical. Consider FRS radios instead.

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On 23 Jul 2006 10:53:45 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , "q23r"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>John Navas wrote:
>> How could that possibly work? Don't you want to talk to anyone outside
>> of the range of that one Wi-Fi LAN?
>Exactly, only within ragne of wifi lan.
>> If you do, traffic has to go over the Internet.
>Don't think i'm stupid. Sure i know it.
>What i'm intrested in:
>1) Is there any software for WM which makes direct voip calls.
>2) What is the stable range of mobile wifi adapters.

He means he wants an IP based intercom system.

Apparently, if you have something like a Grandstream Handytone 386,
you can dial from one computer to another on your LAN, using the IP
address as a phone number. Presumably the handytone firmware has a
servlet of some sort inside to route the traffic.

I've no idea if this works. I might be able to tell you in a couple of
days, I'm about to take delivery of said ATA.
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Mark McIntyre

Windows messanger can do this.
but what about his mobile analog?

Windows messanger can do this.
but what about his mobile analogue?

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:33:29 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless , Mark
McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Apparently, if you have something like a Grandstream Handytone 386,
>you can dial from one computer to another on your LAN, using the IP
>address as a phone number. Presumably the handytone firmware has a
>servlet of some sort inside to route the traffic.
>
>I've no idea if this works. I might be able to tell you in a couple of
>days, I'm about to take delivery of said ATA.

To follow up my own post, the Grandstream Handytone series allow you
to do direct IP-to-IP dialling inside your LAN or outside it, if you
have suitable fw rules.
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Mark McIntyre