6 thoughts on - Connect Asterisk To WiFi

• All you need is a Wi-Fi interface for your computer, or a wired Ethernet adapter for Wi-Fi. Such as any of these on amazon:
  http://www.amazon.com/b?node983791

  Asterisk doesn’t care whether it is wired or wireless, it is just talking via IP over your network interface. The s101i was an IAX to Analog adapter that also communicated with Asterisk over IP.

  Connecting a cell phone directly to Asterisk is a whole different story. Do you mean an actual cellular device such as a GSM cell phone?
  Or do you mean a phone that connects to a 802.11 Wi-Fi signal?

• Just realized I linked to USB to Wi-Fi adapters, but that works too.

• Most cell phone don’t have a USB port but you are correct, maybe I just need IAX2 soft-phone like:
  Zoiper – it works on most of the platforms.
  I think Zoiper registers directly with Asterisk IAX2 (if configured) as an extension, isn’t it?

• If your cellphone is capable of a Wi-Fi connection and you can find a softphone such as zoiper that will run on it, yes it could talk directly to Asterisk via IAX2 protocol. A softphone could also talk to Asterisk over other protocols such as SIP.

  The configuration will depend on whether you are trying to connect over a local wireless LAN, or from the Internet back to your server.

  Here is a tutorial that features zoiper:
  https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Hello+World

  The tutorial assumes you are running Zoiper on the PC, but setting it up should be similar.

• Will call them and let you know.

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• I used zoiper the setup was easy and I like IAX protocol; easier to setup over the firewall. I codec options are: (g723|gsm|ulaw|alaw|g729|speex|ilbc)

  I think g723 or g729 are not free so my only options are gsm, ulaw, alaw. Since the connection goes over the WAN and wifi, I’m limited to gsm.