Firstly, I am quite new to VOIP for our office deployments, particularly with cordless options. I have a location that we had deployed 6 W56H phones to, and a W70B for the base.
The building is mostly open, and is not very big and would not have had problems with a traditional landline cordless phone. The base station is setup in the open area as it is most central in the office space. There are two office rooms that are not too far away from the base station, however the connection to it is really bad when going through the wall.
As distance is not an obvious part of the issue, does anyone know what the recommendation is to resolve a connection issue for these phones?
From what I can tell, buying an additional W70B base station won't allow for us to roam between bases when walking through the office, which will be problematic for us, and the multi cell system would cost significantly more than I expected for this project as I would seemingly need at least 2 W80Bs for what is a fairly small area.
Does anyone have experience using the RT30 repeaters who may have a sense for if they work any better with wall penetration than the actual phones? I know that with APs in general, you always want to have them located where it still has a decent connection to the one it is meshing with. From what I understand, these repeaters can not be hard wired to the base over the network, so I am really unsure how useful they would be. Are there any other recommendations on how to handle this sort of issue?