Small Office VoIP On The Cheap
It's easier than you think to equip a small office with VoIP-based service.
Smart Home Articles
Cordless SIP Phone vs Traditional Cordless + ATA. Which is Better?
Both can get the job done. But there are advantages to keeping things simple.
HD Streaming Smackdown: Draft 11n vs. Powerline
You might think that the winner between these two "alternative" networking technologies is obvious. But think again.
ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Notworking? (in the US)
Why should anyone care about a 128 kbps Internet connection technology? Michael Graves can think of two reasons.
A Beginners Guide To Successful VOIP Over DSL – Part 2
Part 1 of this series covered VoIP basics and introduced the topic of Quality of Service. This time, we look at Traffic Shaping and Power Considerations.
A Beginners Guide To Successful VOIP Over DSL – Part 1
This guide will help you steer around the potholes on the road to a happy VoIP experience.
Home Control Need To Know
Thinking of getting into Home Control and Automation? Our Need To Know will get you up to speed in a jiffy.
The Hidden Gotcha of VoIP phones
Sometimes you just need an operator. It's not often, but there are services that a real, live operator can perform that you just don't get when you subscribe to one of the popular VOIP services such as Vonage. Of course, you're not gong to make collect calls from your VOIP line, and international calls likewise need no operator intervention. But what happens if you need to check the status of a line? That was the scenario I recently faced.
Fall VON 2006 Report: VoIP is Dead…Again
The view from the Fall VON show this week in Boston is that VoIP's time as a profitable market has passed...again.
Linksys Prepping Wi-Fi Skype Phone?
Linksys may be getting ready to join the competition for Wi-Fi Skype phones
Video Streaming Need To Know: Part 2 – The Real World
In the final Part 2 of this tutorial, Tim Higgins finds truth and lies about wireless streaming.
Video Streaming Need To Know: Part 1- Encoding, Bit Rates and Errors
Consumer networking vendors are constantly pitching us to stream video wirelessly around our homes. In Part 1 of this tutorial, Tim Higgins looks at what it takes to mess up networked video.