[clug] Asterix at home

[Ben Coughlan]

And I can plug my handsets directly into my router.  Landline calls  
come in as normal, VOIP is used automatically whenever I dial out.

I'd have no how to make a PC do that.

On 15/07/2009, at 8:28 PM, Mike Carden wrote:

> I'm reminded of the years I spent running a custom Linux firewall box
> for my home network. I tended it carefully and assiduously applied
> updates, read its logs and basked in my time-consuming but powerfully
> protected home network.
>
> Then I bought a teeny tiny linux based router that ran off the smell
> of an oily rag.
>
> To feel more geeky I immediately gave it community firmware and
> tweaked it to within an inch of... doing what it did already.
>
> And I still had a secure home network.
>
> Now I have a Wireless router / ADSL2 / VOIP device that doesn't care
> what OS talks to it and gives me seamless VOIP at the same time as
> doing all of the wired and unwired local data provisioning that I
> need.
>
> By all means hack 100 watts of old PC into being a VOIP gateway, but
> it's no longer the province of hackers. Your corner store can sell you
> a smaller, cheaper, working version for less than the cost of the
> power to run an old PC[0].
>
>
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>
> [0] Some statistics may be completely imaginary.
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