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Internetworking with Internode. 97%

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Quiet week in the 'cottage.
Phase 1 of the de-installation of Bigpond as our ISP: Internode, all the way! Added ADSL via Internode: the highest quality Aussie-owned ISP in Australia, to the home network. Once Telstra Wholesale get their act together, the next step is 8Mbit/s. It seems that Telstra has not correctly provisioned their IT [...]

VoIP is probably easier than I thought

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Churn to Internode Issue in our household is the nGb/month - not mGb/second. Whilst Internode has yet to install ADSL+ into our exchange, I am happy to wait for 'em, and rid outselves of Bigmuddle/Bigpuddle.
Purchase Nodephone service, and get a "incoming" phone number
Install Asterisk on our Debian server
Install a Softphone, maybe buy an ATA (or [...]

Notes from the the Web

Friday, November 10th, 2006

As per yesterday's post, I am attempting to live outside desktop applications.
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Signed up for Google Apps for Your Domain. As I am entering a "micro-business", I really don't want to set up all the infrastructure. I hope Documents, Spreadsheets and soon GoogleSharepoint (formerly known as JotSpot) will flow into these custom apps soon.
VoIP. Interesting thing [...]