Category: Business

  • VoIP at home with a Linksys SPA3102, trails, tribulations but it's working now

    So far my experiments with sipgate VoIP have been good. The next step has been to buy an adapter that will convert our home phone into a VoIP phone. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the sipgate softphone is fine for me when I’m using my laptop but it doesn’t have the same convenience…

  • Welcome to the Christmas Party Season

    Was it 12 months ago already since last Christmas? Sure is, so Sunday was the day for the Roots Christmas party. As Root’s has grown our parties have gone from a small gathering at mum and dad’s house to international travel and superstars for the entertainment. Last year we hired a 70 seater coach and…

  • VoIP – testing sipgate

    I’ve been playing with VoIP for a while now. VoIP = “Voice over Internet Protocol” and it’s essentially using computer networks as your phone network. Skype is a form of VoIP. The one thing I have against Skype is it’s closed protocol that means only Skype things will work with Skype. The more open standard…