Naked But Whole Again

So as with every house move there is a period of 'disconnection' to the world and while the phone may be reconnected quite quickly, a decent internet connection is known to be as delayed as a recent flight to Reykjavik.

With the dawning of the new Dawson premises I've been putting some thought into how I'd like to wire it up............. once! The factors are nothing out of the ordinary: time, cost, effort, return, flexibility and most importantly - as future proof as possible! Recent lengthy discussions with a certain relative of mine who's building a house arrived at the realisation that you need nothing more than a live network port in each room.

In the past it was cool to have audio/video links from room to room, phone ports all over the place but these days, what CANT you do with a network port? Older office PCs are literally being given away so we can say for sure that our kids will have at least 1 PC each. With a network port in each room you have AV streaming from wherever to wherever, internet connections, file sharing, print sharing, web chat, video calling, voip phones etc etc.

I know what some of you are thinking, "why not just go wireless and then you don't have to do anything!". In response to that, I say "ttthhwwwpppppttttt". Home wireless is good for sitting on your laptop out the back browsing the net or on your lap in the lounge - other than that, its fucking crap. Absolute administrative nightmare, limited chocked bandwidth and an ongoing pig to support. Enough said.

With all that in mind I decided to go the full monty, dice the old analog line rental charges and go naked. Sadly, due to their coverage in Edgewater, I couldn't stay with Amnet but iiNet picked up the slack and connected us today. While we were painting I patched up all the analog phone ports so at the moment there is a phone line swinging in the roof, just waiting for a home. I figured that no one REALLY wants a phone point in their kitchen nowadays anyway. Cordless phone with a base station in the office - ding dang do.

With Naked we have been issued a new '6' number and with a fancy new adsl2/router/voip converter I purchased, we can still use normal analog phones, not those poxy usb ones. Call charges are alot lower, especially STD and the only downside is if the power goes out or your internet goes down, you cant ring anyone. No big deal.

Will hopefully give it a try tonight or tomorrow or when I next have a free minute......... in 2016! Another long weekend to power through the remainder of the DIY before DJ is born - we're replacing most of the patio, painting door frames/doors and hopefully squeezing in some relaxation.

So much to do, so little time :)

Later Gators

Soundtrack Of The Day: Sugar Army - The Parallels Amongst Ourselves
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