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Well I abandoned my search for a good and cheap SIP cordless phone or SIP wireless phone and picked up a DECT 6.0 set from Costco. It's a philips and comes with 4 handsets. Finally I don't have to worry about my 2.4ghz cordless phone interfering with my wireless network anymore. It's not quite a feature laden as a VOIP phone and doesn't integrate quite as nicely into my Asterisk PBX setup but it was a lot cheaper. At least it responds to the voice mail message indicator that my Asterisk server spits out.

Yesterday we picked up a brand new washer and dryer. The supersized Maytag Epic 9600 frontloading washer and frontloading dryer. You might be thinking that the Maytag brand isn't very good, and you'd be right. It wasn't very good in the past because of poor corporate decisions that sent it's products down the drain. But then Whirpool came along and bought up Maytag in a $2.7 billion dollar deal. And to try and boost the Maytag street cred they are releasing Whirlpool made items under the Maytag name. Sweet deal for us. The Manitoba Hydro credit doesn't hurt too bad either.

Well finally I update... and on a brand new internet connection too.

I was stuck on the crappy 900mhz capped at 40kb/s wireless connection for the last 10 months. I had to trench in a 300 foot pvc pipe to a barn on the other side of the treeline so i could set up a 2.4ghz receiver. Now i've more than double my speed.... not as good as ADSL or cable but a lot more comparable now.

My house is in shambles due to ongoing renovations and my home-office is torn apart as well. I'm going to be installing new vinyl flooring and then building myself a proper desk/workbench. Once I get that all in place I'll be sifting through my spare hardware (at least 4 or 5 computers worth) and building myself some brand new servers to go with the new connection. I freed up one of my computers by building a spiffy new glossy black mini-atx media computer to sit beside my tv. I put in a wireless card to clean up the cables running across my living room floor. Since the house is in ruin anyways i'm taking this opportunity to run network cable to every room possible. Silly electricians think that ONE phone cable to a bedroom is enough.... hah, try 4 network cables.

Anyway, more updates to follow... and i hope at a lot faster pace too. toodles.