In my efforts to increase options, functionality and features for my home network, I have run my total of computers, servers, switches, routers and other networking devices up to 15 total.
The days of simply hooking up my computer to my phone line are long gone.
Today, my Linksys WRT54GS comes in, via a big brown truck, and in a matter of hours I will be uploading a replacement firmware for it. This third party firmware is called Tomato and is advantagous to what the router comes with in that it has a very strong reputation of being stable efficient and easy to use.
I will disable any router type functions on my craptacular DSL "Modem" and run all of my QoS, port forwarding, and any other routing functions on this modded Linksys.
After that is set up and realitively stable, attention to the voip adapter wil be next on the list.
It is a GS-502 and I just need to do some configuration tweaks to get its sound quality acceptable. I am still undecided weather this device should go at the "top" of my network, just after the modem, or have it hanging off of one of the ports on my switch. Experiances and opinions seem to to be mixed on the forums I have been trolling on about this.
Somewhere during all this, I'll also be calling Qwest to purchase the new 7MB line.
Then there is still, getting the website transplanted onto the Linux LAMP that is up and running, currently hosting the Teamspeak server. and more of course...
Might as well be fishing for whales...
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