A Gift Idea for the VOIP User
When it comes to holiday gift giving my wife has to ask me for a list. Otherwise she knows that she has no hope of getting me anything techy that I'll actually appreciate. In some ways, for those of us…
A Tale Of Woe….And Cordless Phones: Part 1
I was trying to not write this, but week upon week the trouble persists, and my search for a cordless phone continues ad nausea. This entire story I've now told to several people who hazarded to ask, "what's wrong?" So…
Where there’s will….there’s a way
a.k.a. The logic behind the third Asterisk in my home office I work from a home office. I have for over 10 years. About three years ago I gave up my last land line and went 100% voip. Since then…
Followup On My QoS / Traffic Shaping Question
Following up on the question I asked last week (Nov 9) about QoS/traffic shaping, specifically comparing a vlan vs IP range based strategy. My issue stems from the fact that I've added a number of new voip devices to my…
Why Asterisk Has Merit In The Home
This is arising from the VOIP Users Conference call of Nov 9 where someone commented to the effect that "Asterisk may not have much use in a typical home environment." I can't completely agree or disagree. It's not that simple.…
How To: Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX
Back in January of 2006 I wrote an article about my experience building an embedded Asterisk server based on the Astlinux embedded distribution and a Soekris Net4801 single board computer. Here's the link. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/24210/72/ What with all the recent enthusiasm…