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Portech GSM Gateway: Prior Art

A number of people in the VOIP user community have deployed this device already, some have even documented their efforts. Such prior art will no doubt help me get mine working also. Here are their notes: The VOIP wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Setup+MV-370+GSM+Gateway+with+Asterisk…

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The snom m3: Range Limitations & DECT Extender vs Roaming

Two weeks ago my wife told me that the small snom m3 handsets are not working as well as they should. To be specific, when she’s in the front bedroom the call quality is not good. I was out of town at the time but eventually got around to looking into the matter.

It’s is a simple matter of signal propogation. That bedroom location is the furthest possible point from the base radio, which was in my office.

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Jared Valentine’s “Application Aware Triggered QoS”

Jared Valentine has posted an interesting description of a system he developed for automatically manipulating QoS & bandwidth allocation to support the use of VOIP over his DSL service. He calls this “Application Aware Triggered QoS.”

He described his initial problem as being trouble with inbound bandwidth management. This is something that I’ve never experienced myself. My trouble was always related to limited outbound bandwidth.

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Rave: I Really Like T-Mobile

For the past three years T-Mobile has been my cellular carrier. I chose them back at a time that I was traveling to Europe periodically and wanted a service that would provide access via the European GSM carriers.

Prior to T-Mobile I had been with Verizon Wireless.The more time goes on the more I like T-Mobile. Their customer service has been pretty good, at least when I needed something it was possible to get it done. I’ve had my phone replaced at least twice. I’ve also had a failed SIM card replaced.

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