I mentioned this to various people earlier, and they seemed interested, so I thought I'd vaguely float the idea here.
Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk? I've been playing with it this week and setting up a connection to the normal phone network using an ISDN line, with a hardware VoIP phone locally. I'm also planning to look at Linux based softphones over the next week and should have a magic PCI card coming which will let me hook up to a normal phone line, so hopefully should be able to come up with bits of interest to anyone who's curious about this stuff.
Takers? Do we have any locations for talks were we could get a reasonable net connection for a live demonstration perhaps?
J.
Same here - interested in finding out a bit more about this. As for the Broadband hardware - I use aDraytek Vigor all in one router /modem at work - never had a problem in the past two years.
At home an ethernet X-modem from ADSL nation, in conjunction with a Buffalo Airstation. This has worked fine with a combination of Yellowdog Linux, OSX and Mac os9 no problems. Still unplugged it last night though - anyone with experience of how ADSL modems handle lightning!? Phil
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:17, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Friday 23 July 2004 06:14, phil wrote:
anyone with experience of how ADSL modems handle lightning!?
Better than the cheapest internal PSTN modem cards, but still not very well.
I think that my Dlink broke on Thursday nights lightning over Woodbridge. Either that or the DSLAM went down.
The D-Link is fine on the LAN side, but reports physical line errors on the WAN port. Zen weren't very good at answering the question of if there was a problem on the DSLAM, just said that their side of the DSLAM was fine.
So I've had to put the laptop in front of the laptop with the working dial-up modem (under Windows). I guess I should have prepared for this sort of thing- but the amount of attacks against Windows while downloading a 5Mb firewall was unbelievable.
Dial-up seems to be working at full speed for a 56K modem (connecting around the 48,000 bps rate ~ 35K without IP/PPP overhead). I thought that once ADSL was activated the voice portion of the line would reduce so that somewhere around 28k would be the top speed.
Oh well, this is the first outage in a year (other than a few dropped connections during planned maintenance).
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Wayne Stallwood