On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John Carter <[email protected]> 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.
http://www.nicegear.co.nz > * 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) > > 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... Sony LG or Samsung seem to be the ones. Dove stock Sony. > > 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. > > -- > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected] > New Zealand > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > >
