On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:38 +1200 John Carter <john.car...@taitradio.com> wrote:
> So my home life is getting sufficient twangled that having some more > advance facilities (voicemail / caller id / ...) would be good. > > I was looking at Xnet VFX Fusion. But that means I'd have to replace > my router to have a phone plug. > > This seems... unnecessary. > > Googling (gargling?) for voip and openwrt turns up Asterix running on > a Linksys WRT54GL... just so happens I have a WRT54GL running Openwrt > "Backfire". > > So what I need is... > * A cordless voip phone or a way of tacking a standard cordless to, > umm, something. i use this to connect to my asterisk system: http://nicegear.co.nz/analog-telephone-adaptors/linksys-pap2t/ never had any problems > * Access to a cheap gateway from the IP to Christchurch local > telephone system > * Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas > tend to do that to you) i use 2talk but ive never really looked around... http://www.2talk.co.nz/ 2000 mins/mth free with each local number for local calls > So carry on with the digital convergence... > > After buying, trying and returning to the #...@$#! red shed under > gaurantee two TV's... and having similar problems with DSE TV's... > > I'm very reluctant to waste money on a TV again... > > Yet the Sprats want TV and a place to plug their game consoles into. > Dang. > > Now with netbooks being cheaper (and better quality) than many > TV's... what I need is... > > * Some way of getting TV & game console inputs on to the display. > > Hmm. There is an ADSL2+ to city block cabinet a 50m down the road.... > > Would it be worth replacing my DSE ADSL XH1175 router with an adsl2+ > one anyway? > > Suggestions most welcome. > -- aaron m
