Discovered a little wrinkle in Windows 7’s Network Identification feature.  If you’re pushing an OpenVPN tunnel to a machine and not substituting the default gateway (because, for example, you want a split tunnel) with the VPN’s gateway, then Windows just consistently won’t identify the network, which means you’re stuck with the “Public” firewall profile.

I wound out replacing my existing router (which had a buggy NAT issue) with a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND running OpenWRT.  It was pretty damned easy to get it all running and set it up as an in-place upgrade.  However, I wanted more out of it.

Well, my VOIP ATA has been working just fine for the past few weeks.  Except for yesterday.  My ADSL modem lost sync and therefore gained a new external IP address, and there the problems started.  From that point on, my ATA could not register with my SIP provider.  I even rebooted the ATA, and it made no difference.

With the release of OpenELEC 4.0, XBMC 13 (Gotham) is now available!  For those of us driving a media center with a Raspberry Pi, this is great news (there’s significant performance improvements on the RPI).

As discussed in the last post, I adjusted my dial plan to the following;

Picked myself up a Cisco SPA112 to replace the wonky built-in VOIP capability of my router.  However, I seem to have some unusual behaviour.  Namely, when I take my cordless phone off the hook, I only get about 4 seconds to start entering numbers before the ATA switches over to the “off hook alarm” mode and rejects any further digits.  Unfortunately, the phone’s built-in dialer waits a few seconds before starting to dial, so it’s pretty random whether you can dial or not.