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Ian has over 40 years of experience in I.T. ( Information Technology or as it used to be Information Systems ). He worked for a number of years as a commercial programmer in various computer languages, has worked as both a Systems Analyst and Business Analyst, a number of years Read more
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Due to changing how we access the internet, moving to 4G data internet connections, it became tricky to host this website ourselves. We use multi internet providers which are selected automatically by our load balancing router, so our outbound I.P. can suddenly change. Using Dynamic DNS servers wasn’t really practical Read more
For the last twenty-plus years, we were contracted to either Sky or Virgin media, who provided our telephone, Internet and TV services. First to go was the telephone due to the number of spam and scam calls we were getting to our landline. This was with a call blocker and Read more
Back to part 1 – Switching from fixed-contract Internet, telephone, and TV providers Cord cutter or Cord buster generally means not getting your TV services from the likes of Virgin or Sky, streaming rather than using packaged TV services. Though we have taken Cord Cutting a stage further. Whilst we Read more
Back to part 2 – Really joining the Cord Cutters & Busters We made the move to having the equivalent of ‘fixed’ or landline telephone numbers again, after a few years of not having one, due to spam and scams. This time we have again gone for rolling 30 day contracts, Read more
The first thing we would advise any user is to update your device to the latest firmware, as these usually contain the latest fixes and online protection. You can find the latest GrandStream firmwares by clicking here. Here are the settings we use successfully to connect a GrandStream HT-812 to Read more