Ever since I moved this blog and the nearby git repos to my home network I have had weird intermittent network problems. I worked just enough for me to convince myself that it seemed to be working, but not enough for people to have convenient access from outside.
After fiddle with cables a bit with no real success I did some more systematic testing and discovered that the wired ports on my Netcomm wireless/ADSL modem were just not doing the right thing.
So I decided it was time for an upgrade. Not only would it then work immediately, but I could have VOIP integrated into the same box (instead of separate) and be ready for ADSL2 - if that ever gets to the 'lucky country' (well... a few exchanges have it, but not many).
A few hundred dollars for an NB9W and a couple of hours later it all works again nicely. The VOIP QoS applied to all my traffic without esoteric routing being required, and my webside gives a consistent 20KB/sec to the world. Now I just have to tidy up the wires before someone trips over...
