Still Nice And Warm

The local weather bureau is suggesting the hot dry spell we have been having should begin to break up later in the week. They are even suggesting we will get some rain come next weekend. The front lawn could do with a couple of inches of rain, it has dried out again.

Not a lot of news. All incoming phone calls to us come via the Telstra service while our outgoing calls are all made with VoIP, that is via the computer. We use the same handsets to make calls as we do to receive them. However the VoIP service isn't perfect and every few days we have had to reset the DLink modem/router to get everything back running again.

I have a couple of VoIP enabled modem/routers, my DLink and a second one made by Billion. The Billion is certainly more difficult to set up than the DLink. The DLink has a wizard, you just type in the basic information and your router is then setup for you. The Billion requires most settings being entered manually and this can be a bit of a hassle. There is a 100 page User Manual available online for the Billion and this is a must have. I guess the setup wizard is what you get when you purchase the more upmarket model. The Billion was much less expensive to purchase than the DLink!

The DLink has not been behaving well with a modem/router reset required weekly so I have put the Billion back in to service. There has been a firmware upgrade for the Billion which fixes some of the problems it used to have especially with VoIP. So today I upgraded the firmware to the latest and reset all the settings and have put it back in to service.