Category Archives: Tech

IPv6

By James | Published: August 19, 2009

I’ve been playing around with IPv6 over the last few days; my ISP doesn’t give out IPv6 addresses yet, but thanks to Hurricane Electric I now have a /48 being routed straight to me. In theory I could subnet that /48 into 65536 subnets, each containing a ridiculous number of hosts. This is a strange [...]

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Affordable Video Conferencing – Part 1 – Hardware

By James | Published: December 23, 2008

After receiving a quote for a Polycom video conferencing unit for around the $5000 mark excluding extras, I set out to put together an affordable conferencing solution. In this two or three part series I will cover the design, build and implementation of a solution for under $1500 NZD.

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Affordable IP Phone Systems

By James | Published: November 4, 2008

Asterisk has been around for a number of years now, most tech consultants will be aware that there are open source PBX solutions that can run on your PC. However, until I discovered the Atcom IP series of Asterisk appliances, I knew I would have a hard time convincing small businesses of the benefits of [...]

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DNS Performance Test Utility

By James | Published: October 3, 2008

Recently I have been trying to tune the internet performance at work (and find out whether it is faster to run a DNS forwarder on our VPS hosted in a data centre, or to do queries directly to OpenDNS), and found this cross-platform tool which looks very useful for checking out query speeds of different [...]

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2talk SIP Termination for Small Businesses

By James | Published: September 18, 2008

I have been interested in getting the place I work for to switch over to VoIP to reduce the cost of our tolls – mainly in the area of 0800 calls. My initial plan was to use a VoIP provider, purchase various numbers around the country, and use geographical routing on our 0800 number to [...]

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