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Category Archives: VoIP
Controlling ALSA’s output
I use “Twinkle” on my Ubuntu PC, for receiving and making VoIP calls. After testing Linphone, Wengo, and several others, Twinkle seemed to be the one which seemed to be pretty robust. I like to have music going when I’m … Continue reading
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RTP Audio
When you create a VoIP call, you invite the remote peer, who accepts or rejects, and there is a “SIP” session initiated. A SIP session is valid for pretty much anything, text, voice, audio, video, images, data – anything. SIP … Continue reading
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Asterisk VoIP 1.6.11 Addons Issue
Last night I moved an asterisk install from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1, and also upgraded addons. One of the issues that wasn’t mentioned anywhere noticable, but was found (in french.. ) was the extconfig.conf change. The log was flooding with error … Continue reading
How do VoIP calls work?
I was looking at something related to this, this week, and it occurred to me when I was, that most just have no idea, they might think the dial tone generated by the ATA comes from the VoIP provider for … Continue reading
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Oz VoIP Status Reset
I’ve reset all the stats on Oz VoIP Status, the reason being – we changed colocation provider, the statistics and monitoring since the change has been sooo much better, that it’s unfair to the providers to leave the existing outages … Continue reading
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Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
For some time, I was hosting ozvoipstatus.com with Servers Australia. I moved recently, after they absolutely demonstrated their ignorance and incompetence of a routing issue within their network to the good people at MaxoTel, who also colocate with these idiots … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus: 404 Outage Not Found
As the title suggests, OzVoIPStatus was unable to discover and log an outage with a VoIP provider monitored by us. The provider is Freshtel, and they were found to be down for 17 hours yesterday. OzVoIPStatus missed it. One rather … Continue reading
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Top 10 VoIP Providers
That’s right. Instead of writing about the continued increase of idiots on the road, or more on Telstra’s evil plans of industry monopolisation, or the disgusting crimes of murder, manslaughter, rape, and child abuse continually being committed, or the fact … Continue reading
OzVoIPStatus: News
There is finally a new news item on OzVoIPStatus. Yes, it only took me 7 months, though, that’s nothing due to no maintenance on that site at all, it’s more of a, I don’t enjoy sitting there typing an entry into … Continue reading
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Happy New Year
It is now January 2008. Happy New Year to all. On the broadband scene a lot has changed over the last year, yet the one static object is broadband prices have remained stupidly expensive and poor value for those in … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus Results
Seeing the site run more today, has revealed that the accuracy of the monitoring is increasing considerably, to the extent that outages are at new lows. The outage log shows that in the last 24 hours, there have been just … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus Initial Testing Results
After getting my changes live last night, and making some changes to the VoIP Monitoring outages this morning, it seems the system is improving significantly. What happens is if the first packet doesn’t appear, fine, we’ll check for another, so … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus Update Progressed!
At last. It’s taken many weeks to progress on this update to the website. But. It’s live. Running right now is a complete different system for testing for outages. It fixes many of the failures of the previous system, by … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus: Update Progress
I’ve progressed on OzVoIPStatus’s new system, the changes however, are such a pain to implement that I’ve decided to take a different road and instead setup my own local version of the full website, and migrate changes there, once all … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus: Update Delayed
Unfortunately (and its very unfortunate), the update I planned to release tonight isn’t going to go ahead as planned due to an issue with a particular provider. The particular provider issue wasn’t determined until just recently, but has been fixed. … Continue reading
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Server Hardware “Failure” causes delays
Recently, we had a item of hardware fail in my internal server (my in house server). Essentially that was just my older 2 year old machine, which unfortunately, had an accident. It wasn’t the servers fault however. Unfortunately, a Pop … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus Changes
Today I spent a lot of time working on enhancing the status checker. Something I should have put time into a long time ago. A fair while back, I made some changes to the status monitoring program, but unfortunately, introduced … Continue reading
New Server Running Nicely!
I’ve finally been able to set up my new Windows server, and it runs fantastically. I’ve actually not done much in the way of Windows in a hosting setup when it comes to establishing DNS, and POP3 and SMTP. I’m … Continue reading
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Skype approaches another day of downtime
Skype has continued to suffer from sign on issues, and is now approaching another day of downtime. A report on Skype’s heartbeat page (their own status page), mentions they are no where near complete, but are in a better position … Continue reading
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Skype remains problematic
Skype has since yesterday remained very problematic, and not able to maintain sign in! The issue has gone on so far for nearly 24 hours, which isn’t good considering it’s one of the leading chat / phone programs on the … Continue reading
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Server Connectivity Issues
Today I found a lot of connectivity issues on my colocated server. It was rather surprising to discover the continuous streams of downtime. I was even more amazed to discover that I could likely accomplish the same job for a … Continue reading
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Server Moves – Time Consuming!
I’ve recently moved server (again). I’ve had to move between servers for a little while now because of a few issues that were causing software issues. Those issues have been focused on and solved, however, each time I move server, … Continue reading
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Bad Weather/Power on the Central Coast
Over the last few days, we’ve had storms. That is, rain, and thunder, and wind. This has had effects on many people, some worse than others, as can be seen in the news stories plastered all over news.com.au. Last night, … Continue reading
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Server Crashes solved?
Today, we upgraded the crash server to a new BIOS version. This new BIOS version quotes that it Improves Memory Compatibility. And so far, the results seem to be promising. We moved (backwards) from Fedora Development to Trixbox 2.0. The … Continue reading
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QoS that works…
… Is what you get with the Tomato firmware for the Linksys WRT range of routers. I have been messing around with DD-WRT trying to get it up and running in a workable state for VoIP, and my other $network->internet(); … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus moved / Unexplained crashes unresolved.
That’s right. It’s moved data centre this time to Equnix. Now, only the stupid would ever think a mass scale move of any type would go without error. And I mean, only the completely stupid. Every time you move a … Continue reading
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OzVoIPStatus: Provider Status Logos: DONE!
I’ve got them out, yes. They’ve sat idle on my dev server for a while. But at last, we now have OzVoIPStatus VoIP Provider Status Logos. Stick em on your blog, website, wherever you like, and show off just how … Continue reading
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Cable Organisation
I’ve got several machines running. And, we also have a few routers running. For example: 1. D-Link DSL-504T – This is the ADSL Modem for the network (has a buggy SNMP daemon) – It’s a great device, powered by busy … Continue reading
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Vonage being sued by Verizon
I heard recently heard that Vonage are being sued by Verizon for patent breach. I was digging through the patents after I was linked to them, and was shocked to see the wording of some patents. They are so poorly … Continue reading
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iiNet New Plans: Shocking, OzVoIPStatus changes
iiNet’s value for money continues to be diluted as the company gathers more customers. The newer plans from iiNet offer very poor value, and aren’t really that competitive. But they are still better compared to Telstra, and that’s a bonus … Continue reading
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