Home Office Business Continuity

Sunday/Monday our Verizon FIOS stopped working as did our Verizon telephone (via FIOS.)   I went through the MY FIOS troubleshooter (it solved my problems once).  A few calls to Verizon later we had a repair scheduled for Thursday – 4 days later. This presented a problem, currently, we have 4 people, all with jobs, living …

Still Here

Amusingly, (amazingly?) tell 1and1 to update my wordpress and BOOM-my ancient blog is back in it’s minimalist glory. Since the last time I touched it my kids are taller and both are better programmers and web designers then I (https://sam.daitzman.com, http://jdtzmn.github.io). Anyway, nice that the blog is sort of back :-). -Michael      

Android = Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (11 August 1993) (Long)

If you are old enough to remembrer Windows for Workgroups 3.11 you probably remember it fondly.  It connected to the internet (14,4000 for the lucky, 28,800 or faster for the incredibly lucky!) and rarely crashed if you knew what you were doing. Stable, but just barely. A phone should not require a nightly reboot  as …

VOIP/SIP as a business phone

Vonage monthly cost for a telephone line: $24.95 SIPPHONE costs: however many calls I make plus $0.33 for caller id. Way better deal. Even once Grandcentral starts charging (expect $15 a month) this is still a good deal. SIPHONE Minutes for outbound calls: $0.02 cents a minutes PAP2T ATA for dialtone: $59.95 Inbound calls via …

VOIP/VONAGE and NetGear FVS124G

Whether the FVS124g gigabit VPN router is a good piece of equipment or not I leave for another day. But, if you want it to work with Vonage you must do the following (thanks to Netgear Enterprise post moderator endurorider – used with permission) endurorider Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 35 Re: Peaceful Coexistence …