Day: 3 May 2005

Cisco 7920 IP Wifi Phone

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I have had the opportunity to play with the Cisco 7920 Wifi IP phone recently. I have said before I am a fan of Cisco Call Manager (CCM). I use it, I like it. I thought the 7940 wired IP phones were great. This Wifi phone operates just like a 7940 but it is a cordless. I have taken it between 2 locations with the same WEP configuration and it worked seamlessly. I took it between 2 floors with seamless wifi setup and it worked without a problem. The battery life leaves a bit to be desired, and a cradle would be nice for what these things cost, but the phone is still great.

I am tempted to get a wifi IP phone for my personal Broadvoice account. They offer help on configuring them, and they even sell one through Hello Direct. I am just not sure if the quality is as good as the Cisco one? Too bad the 7920 is only a skinny based phone and wont work on SIP.

Cisco Network Conference

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I got my reservations for the Cisco Network conference in Las Vegas this year. I made my reservations and called everyone I know that is going. I will hopefully meet up with Joe out there. He is taking Karen, so hopefully we can get together for dinner one night. I hope to also meet up with one of the Cisco engineers I know. I still have to set my schedule for the conference but with tons (200+) things to do I will have a hard time picking just a few stuff to do. I am really excited to go. I get out of the office that much and this really sounds like an interesting conference. That it is in Vegas has no bearing on my happiness on going!

I also spoke to Sean about the trip. I am hoping to hook up with him on the sunday I fly in. It has been a while since we got together. I hope he and Kelly have some free time with the baby and all. More news as it develops.

Updating Stuff

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I have been really bad over the past year or so on keeping up with my moves. I have had a few statements, and an insurance policy point to old address’s. I never called to update the companies with my new address’s. I have no excuse except for I was lazy. I finally broke down today and called everyone I forgot to call in recent history and updated all my information. I feel better now. Procrastination is a lifestyle but it gets to you over time:)

Static IP Bliss

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I finally took the plunge. I finally forked over the extra money to my cable company for a static IP address. Granted I have had the same ip since I moved in, but my provider (RCN) blocks web and SMTP ports. That means I couldn’t host a website or a mail server. With my static ip (and RCN having $20 a month from me) I can (according to tech support) host stuff on my server now. I am kind of pissed that I have to pay since I was able to do this with Time Warner for free in the past. Granted I am not sure if TW actually allowed it but it was technically possible to do. I could have gotten a port redirector service to allow me to host my site with port 80 being blocked but RCN did offer me this pay for an IP option. I cut back on my cell phone since I haven’t been using it so the cost to me is a wash.

I have just configured my router for the static VPN tunnels that I have. Stupid changes were needed on the Pix’s on the other end to get it to work, but after about 10 minutes on each tunnel I was up and running again. With 2 configuration changes on my router I was able to get a demo page up on apache. Seems to be working now. All I have to do is take the virtual machine I am running my site on, back it up and move it home. Hopefully everything comes up ok. Once I move the site to my home machine I can begin to work on a linux only version of the site.

Once the site is moved I can really test and see if RCN’s claims are accurate about their ip service. More news on that later.