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I got my hands on an Eircom Advantage VOIP phone this morning to see how it works.
The handset looks standard business like. Grey, and buttons. Branded Eircom also.
When I connected it to our LAN, it firstly looked for our DHCP server (is it possible to give it a fixed IP?), then I presume got across […]

I came across this useful bandwidth tool from Shane.
Looking at an Eircom DSL line of 4Mb:256Kb (down:up) the possible simultaneous VOIP calls available would be 3 (Using codec G.729).
Obviously not enough for a telephone heavy company.

Speaking with Antoin (Ireland’s Chief Fonero) ealier in the week, I mentioned a few things that would be really super to see Fon taking on. After doing a little more thinking, heres a few other points:
1. give the Fon AP owners a user editable portion of the landing page. This would allow them enter extra […]

Back in February this year, I posted a simple test of Blueface’s free test account.
10 months on and I have now subscribed for their Freedom Basic account. I have also bought Linksys PAP2 ATA for our DECT handset.
All is going perfectly. If I was able to remove 1) my Eircom phoneline, or 2) remove my […]

Skype, the free PC-PC, and cheap telephone line phone calls company has released Skype Zones.
Skype says “you can now access Skype and make calls from more than 18,000 Skype-friendly internet hot spots round the world.”

The application is powered by the Boingo network, which in Ireland has a roaming agreement with Bitbuzz.
It sounds like a cool […]

Right, so I have have managed to make some progress on installing *@home as I mentioned earlier.
My main issue was installing the *@home ISO image on a Mini-ITX Via mobo. This is documented in the asterisk@home handbook here.
After finguring out that I needed the *actual* CentOS ISOs first, it worked fine.
[A quick tip: if you […]

[UPDATE: Ok, so using a different HDD with something else installed didn’t work. I will have to grab the CentOS 3.4 ISO tomorrow. bah!]
[UPDATE: I found what I think is the answer. Apparently “You cannot use the A@H ISO. It isnt configured to run on a I586 CPU witch is on those boards.”
Also, someone posted […]