Month: March 2013

  • O’Reilly Media book: Packet Guide to Voice over IP

    Packet Guide to Voice over IP: Go under the hood of an operating Voice over IP network, and build your knowledge of the protocols and architectures used by this Internet telephony technology. With this concise guide, you’ll learn about services involved in VoIP and get a first-hand view of network data packets from the time…

  • my new NAS (and so much more): Synology DS213+

    DS213+ Products – Synology Inc. Network Attached Storage The box makes itself known as diskstation.local resp. DiskStation on my LAN. (Reliability …) Of course it deserves a “1 Gbit/s” on my FRITZ!Box. The box’s OS is BusyBox; here are a few more details: DiskStation> uname -aLinux DiskStation 2.6.32.12 #2668 SMP Tue Dec 11 13:01:16 CST…

  • AVM’s LTE Router: FRITZ!Box 6842 LTE

    FRITZ!Box 6842 LTE As opposed to its elder FRITZ!Box LTE siblings (6810, 6840) this one supports 3 bands: 800 1800 – that’s the band, that Deutsche Telekom supports in German major towns like Berlin and Hamburg 2600 conrad.de announced the availability on … for …: 2013-03-22: “available” … 2013-03-11: 2013-03-13 2013-03-13 .. ___ : 2013-04-03…

  • my new file server

    Producers synology.com (preferred) qnap drobo (good, but too expensive) They all offer some kind of flexible disk mirroring with non-identical disks resp. disk sizes. Main criteria: mini tower, not rack … My colleague’s good advice: Use Samsung disks! Apparently “they all” have hardware compatibility lists, i.e. they don’t work with every disk. I think, it…