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Fritz MT-F phones and German Language firmware notice

Posted: 26/04/2012 11:59:56 AM
The Fritz MT-F phones are shipped with German language as default, firmware version 1.02.27. It will come up with German message to register alternating with the English message: If left for a few ... [more]

Not Enough Bandwidth for your VPN Tunnel?

Posted: 23/04/2012 1:07:09 PM
A DrayTek multi-WAN router with VPN load balance may be the answer. Click here for more info at DrayTek Australia's blog Click here to check out the DrayTek range. Click here for DrayTek's mo... [more]

Children grow up addicted to online porn sites: Third of 10-year-olds have seen explicit images

Posted: 19/04/2012 4:23:46 PM
I just read this disturbing article at the dailymail.co.uk about a report submitted to British MPs stating that 4 out of 5 16 year old boys and girls regularly access online porn while one in three 10... [more]

DrayTek FAQ Updates

Posted: 12/04/2012 2:21:19 PM
DrayTek Australia  just added a few new FAQs to their knowledge base including: How to identify and recover a router with corrupt firmware. (See also my blog post here)  Configuring a router for... [more]

Draytek 2830 series and ReadyNAS Jumbo Frames

Posted: 2/03/2012 12:50:27 PM
A customer reported an interesting problem this week which had us all scratching our heads for a while. He upgraded to a new Draytek 2830Vn+ from a Billion router and suddenly found that a Windows 7 P... [more]

Planet PoE Injector Hubs

Posted: 19/07/2011 12:29:27 PM
Planet's Aussie importer recently introduced a new line of products called "injector hubs" which I thought warranted a little futher explanation. These at first glance appear to be similar to a PoE sw... [more]

95Mbps download on a FritzBox

Posted: 28/06/2011 5:26:46 PM
Raaj Menon, CEO of PCRange who import the Fritz and Billion amongst other products, recently got hooked up to the NBN and achieved an amazing 95Mbps downstream and 35Mbps Upstream using a Fritz AVM739... [more]

Fritz 3G Modem Compatibility List

Posted: 15/06/2011 3:45:18 PM
We're still waiting on an official compatibility list from Fritz but they can confirm so far that the following modems will work - Huawei E160/E/G Huawei E169/G Huawei E170 Huawei E172 Hua... [more]

VoIP Router Comparison

Posted: 30/05/2011 5:37:30 PM
I get a lot of enquiries asking whether one product or brand is better than another and/or which one is the best. The problem is there isn't a simple answer I can give in most cases because it all com... [more]

Routers that support a block of public IP addresses

Posted: 7/03/2011 3:43:49 PM
I occasionally get requests from people wanting a router that can deal with blocks of public IP addresses, also known as IP Aliasing (information I don't have in the Find-A-Router tool). This old Sna... [more]