It's been about 5 months since I installed the Portech GSM gateway. It's working well. I stand by the decision to buy a GSM-to-SIP gateway over one that presents an analog FXS interface. We've never had the kind of call…
Sometimes the apparently simple, little things take longer than you'd expect. In my recent travels I've had some trouble when trying to VPN connect back to my home office. This generally happens for one of two reasons; The ISP at…
This week has been crazed. I started out on Houston and had meetings in Waco TX, Dallas TX, Lawton OK, Austin TX. Not all of it was planned at the outset, and the planning was being done (so I thought)…
As previously announced snom has made available a DECT repeater for their m3 cordless SIP phone system. This should further enhance the phones appeal. VOIP Supply has the unit listed at $133. Not cheap, but not unreasonable either. We've really…
There has been a little rumble of late in the blogosphere about Magic Jack. Ike Elliot had an good overview of the service here. And a little more here.
I first heard of Magic Jack literally a couple of years ago when visiting Durham, NC. It was the topic of conversation on an ABC radio talk show. The host was raving about cheap long distance calls using his PC, and paying $40/year for unlimited calling.
Ho hum. Cheap minutes. I don’t generally get worked up about such things.
The new HD for my SlimNAS box arrived last Friday. So the time to rebuild my SlimServer system is fast approaching. Right now it’s running on a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, but since I’ve abandoned the idea of the Inguz on-the fly room correction in software it just doesn’t need all that CPU power. Nor does it need to be making all that heat & noise.
However, I don’t expect that the simplest solution will work. The T5700 has a 44 pin connector for the flash “disk-on-module” that it normally boots from. A reader in Denmark has indicated that he had some trouble getting the small HD to power-up when connected here.