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Bridging the gap
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Not everyone has access to their broadband router and I don't mean the people who are sneaking onto their neighbor's unsecured wireless network ;-) College dorms are frequently provided with WiFi clouds, but students have no way to hook a voip internet phone adapter to the university's modem. Hotel rooms and internet coffee shops are other places where you might not be able to physically hook into a modem. So what can you do about it?
A wireless voip phone might be the easiest solution, however you shouldn't overlook the possibility that a WiFi bridge might solve your problem. Bridges receive the wireless internet signal that's being broadcast and allow you to physically plug in devices like voip adapters or a computer. Then you can connect your phone line to the adapter and bam! You have voip! Without all the geekery of speaking to your computer.
Unless your alter-ego is named Cyber Dork. If that's the case, you might be interested in finding out that you can use your computer as a wireless voip bridge if you use your Wireless and Ethernet cards at the same time. Just, plug your phone adapter into the Ethernet port and grab a signal using your wireless card. Enjoy your voip :-)
