December 14, 2004

Up and running...

Our house is up and running. The only thing we are missing is our VOIP hardware. We have power, gas, cable, and DSL. We don't have a phone connection as we are moving to Voice Over IP from Speakeasy. It took ComCast a week to get cable installed. The DSL almost just worked. We had a short in a pair that was sharing the line with the pair our DSL line was on. We are also just a little too far from the CO to get 6.0Mb down and 768Kb up. We now have 4.0Mb down and 768Kb up. There is a slight problem with the stove that causes the burners to burn high on one side. PGE came out and looked at it. They declared it safe but old. They said the fix would likely be replacement. They also went over what it would take to add a gas tap in the garage for our gas dryer.
To top it off we have an undecorated Christmas tree. That should change in a few days. Hopefully, it will become a decorated Christmas tree.
[Posted with ecto] Posted by pqbon at December 14, 2004 12:17 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Paying a mainstream provider for VoIP? I'm so disappointed! What about running an asterisk server, and getting a cheaper setup (http://iax.cc/, http://connect.voicepulse.com/, or one of the many others: http://voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Service+Providers)

Posted by: bp at December 14, 2004 4:28 PM