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I'm looking for feedback on how well the multi-cell wireless works.
Are there any problems with the handoff from cell stations?
Is there any differance between the 7680 and 7690 phones besides style?
Which one has better reception, range and sound quality?
This is going into a home to replace an Avaya Partner because the owner(the CEO of the company I work for) wants mostly wireless phones. The only wireless phones that work in this large estate are the EnGenious long range phones and they are to ugly for the decor.
I really need this to work well.
HELP, I love my job!!

The cell sites can work really well if they are positioned in the right places, hopefully your boss has his house wired up pretty good.

I've heard that the 7690 has a little better coverage than the 7680 but that was only from one customer. And I don't think you'll get complaints about bad handoffs.

But I hope you know that the 848 can only hold up to 4 cell sites so if this is a really big property you might have to install a tda50 (up to 8 cell sites) or the tda100 (16?). But the TDA's can only be installed by panasonic certified techs. ie:Me

7690 is too small. Kids love it and for tech junkies it has great Cool factor,
but normal adults will like the 7680 better.
Louder volume from earpiece and better speaker phone
for Handsfree calls or Auto Answer intercom.
You can stand a 7680 on it,s end on a table by the Pool and hear the Speaker on Auto Answer as long as it not too crazy loud, the 7690 would be weak here.

Thanks for the info. House isn't to large, around 10,000 sq ft.(2 stories) and well wired. I was hoping to get away with 1-2 cell stations on 1st floor and 1 on second floor. They only want 2 phones upstairs which is kids (and Nanny) quarters and 7 phones downstairs.
Also meant to ask about interference from wireless data access points. I noticed the cell stations use same frequency, is that a problem?
I'm trying to keep the cost down so there's money left over for my bonus.

Only if you put them on the same channel(s). I picture a two story 60x80 structure and it's fairly hard to see that many WAP's in the place.
I think your 3 cell sites will be fine if you center the upstairs one and hang the two first floor ones about 50 feet away from the 2nd floor box, but however much outside territory you want to cover and your site survey will pretty much tell you where to place them. Of course, you could always put in a Redfire 1000 with a 15dB Omni antenna and not have to worry about all of those nasty WAP's but that would tend to REALLY shrink your bonus.

Carl

Carl, can you tell me more about this Redfire 1000?

It's my favorite. https://www.wirelessinteractive.com/pdf/radios/RedFire_specs.pdf

You'll be in the hot spot business with this coupled to a high gain antenna. You can also get a mesh antenna to blanket a pretty large area. We use ours in motels that get retrofitted for WiFi. The unit is pricey, but it still is about the price of 8 rooms on DSLAM's.