You might have a DSL modem and router and wireless access point integrated as one single unit.
This ADSL wireless router is meant connect to the internet via DSL and at the same time provides you wireless connectivity. If you don’t want to use your DSL connection but have some other means of connecting to the internet like Cable or WiMax than the situation can become a bit tricky and these devices might not always work.
Anyway here is the procedure which can be used to connect a TP Link Wireless ADSL2+ Route TD-W8910G to a external WAN.
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To utilize Voice over IP (VoIP), you need a high speed Internet connection and an analog telephone adapter (ATA). The ATA is the device that allows you to connect your regular telephone to the Internet. You can purchase these from a retailer or use the one provided by the VoIP provider when you sign up for their plan.
The ATA connects to the broadband Internet jack in your house. Since you likely won’t have many broadband outlets in your home, you’ll likely want to use a multiple handset cordless telephone to conveniently use your VoIP service throughout the house.
There is only one potential downside of a VoIP service compared to traditional dial up services. The VoIP services requires both power and the availability of a high speed Internet connection to operate. If either of these are down, the VoIP service will be unavailable, a limitation not faced by traditional dial up services. On the other hand, most people have a cell phone they can use as a backup so even a power or Internet connection outage wouldn’t be a problem.
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Some of the phone systems I’ve looked at such as Shoretel’s implementation require a license per extension. Asterisk on the other hand, does not require any cost for the software, only the price of the server, any switches need, and the phones themselves. This is another big point for the Asterisk system: You can use quite a variety of phones with the system pretty easily. From what I’ve seen the Cisco 79xx line and the Polycom SoundPoint 30x and 50x are the best phones around. The Polycom seem to be quite a bit cheaper for the same feature set as the Cisco’s though. Currently, I’ve got a test implementation running that took about an hour to set up, and tested with soft-phones and a pay as you go account from Iaxtel.
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I’ve been playing with as a possible solution to use Polycom 501 IP Phone with asterisk.
I’ve been looking into the usability of the Polycom 5xx series phones as well as a few others, and now have two phones in house to play with. The phones out of the box are nice, though, I’m not too happy with the ring tones that are available with the phone itself. To me, it seems like this wouldn’t be a normal office phone that anybody would want to use, the rings are quiet, and not very alerting. I might be a little biased in this opinion due to the fact that I work in operations, BUT nonetheless, a ring is one major part of the feel of the phone. That said, there are quite a few nice points about the phone worth mentioning. First off, it’s usability with Asterisk is pretty damn good. Right out of the box, the directory is easy to configure(via xml and tftpboot), config for the phone is xml, and remote rebooting the phones works flawlessly. I must say that it did take me a few clicks to find out the procedure to do this, as I’m new to both Asterisk and the Polycom phones. For those interested, the Polycom’s use sip, and inherently the sip notify feature of asterisk, which has a builtin script for Polycom phones in particular(there are some others as well, search for “sip notify”). Also, the Polycom’s configuration is pretty easy to sort out as well, assuming you have the correct options for dhcp setup(i.e. boot server, etc) config is pulled off the tftp server immediately.
Nice for something like this to work right out of the box!
I have had my current laptop for about 16 months, in the begining the laptop had a backup time of 1.5 hours but now it has quickly fallen down to only 10 minutes
A bit of investigation revealed that I need to re-calibrate my battery to improve the performance.
Following are the steps that you need to follow
Fully charge your battery
Go to your Control Panel:
Start->Control Panel
Open Power Options
On the Power Schemes drop box click on “Always On
Click on the Alarms Tab and uncheck the low battery alarm, and the critical battery alarm
Now unplug your adapter from your computer and leave it on until it loses power and shuts off by itself
Do not use your computer during this process.
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I had been playing namecheap holiday trivia contest on twitter so I required a nice twitter client for my Nokia Symbian S60 3rd edition Mobile Phone
A quick Google Search lead me to Gravity, I installed and fired it up without any problems, it was an excellent client with ability to run in the background, automatic polling of new tweets, ability to copy and forward tweets as text messages, profile viewing, option to upload photos taken by mobile to twitter and also showed you the amount of data used by the application.
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SEA-ME-WE -3 or SMW 3,It is the submarine cable network which has been providing us with internet access for years, to parts of Asia and Europe .
Called the SEA-ME-WE 3 (South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 3), this undersea cable network adopts the most advanced telecommunication technologies such as wavelength division multiplex, optical amplifier and synchronization digital hierarchy to connect three-quarters of the Earth’s population by phone, fax, Internet and video.
Sea-Me-We 3 is the world’s longest intercontinental submarine network connecting Northern Europe to East Asia and Australia, spanning approximately 40,000 km. It also provides its services to some of the leading telecom companies of the world like British Telecom (BT), France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom China Telecom, and SingTel (Singapore). Sea-Me-We 3 is the most complex network architecture of any undersea system in the world.
The SEA-ME-WE-3 project was started in 1994 by Singapore Telecom and France Telecom after the success of the Sea-Me-We 2 (“South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 2″) SMW 2submarine cable project.
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The Wireless and Telecommunication world achieved another milestone last week with the commercial inauguration of the World’s very first long term evolution or LTE based network offering 4G Services. The Network boosts speeds about between 20 MBps and 80 Mbps, which is pretty impressive.
Network operator is TeliaSonera and the first sites to go commercial were in Stockholm Sweden, while Ericsson and Huawei are the proud providers of the LTE network infrastructure and technology
The signs of new networks and expansions would be a very positive for the Communications community and equipment vendors whose finances have been stretched to the limit due to the ongoing credit crunch and the virtual stagnation of networks and technology.
Oh what the world is coming to!
Today Twitter again got spanked, this time by some Iranian dudes, claiming to be from ‘Iranian Cyber Army’
The news was reported by various tech blogs and people also posted screen-shots of Twitters hacked page indexed in Google. I myself checked and found twitter to be down, although the search was up.
As per Twitter, it was their DNS which got the beating and was ‘compromised’
I think, it is sheer negligence on part of twitter, how come they can’t even manage basic security, how you even seen same happening to Google, MSN or Yahoo!
The message posted by the hackers gave us a good laugh
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….
NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST 
I got a Western Digital My Passport Essential 320 GB portable hard drive last week, when I plugged-in to computer it automatically installed WD Smartware for syncing stuff between drive and PC, all good till now.
WD Smartware appears as an icon in the Windows Status bar and there was no option to ‘exit’ and stop this application from running, after all I was not going to keep the portable drive connected to the laptop all the time, so why should I keep its software running indefinitely ?
Not only that, WD Smartware Service WDDMService.exe was eating up System Memory like anything, It was among the top 5 memory users, using even more than Firefox with 4 open tabs and When you terminate WDDMService from Task Manager, it just keeps on restarting itself! all this essentially wasting the precious resources of PC
and of-course, how WD could have forgot to make this crap smartware auto load with every restart!
anyway, for now, I have disabled the auto load of ’smartware’ from msconfig, I hope that now the next time, when I boot my laptop, I will not have to deal with this good for nothing software!