the fishing hat means leave me alone

the shoe is now donning SUPRBLQ license plates (er, a plate).

and since i figured it would be more professional to give superblock a real phone number, i setup asterisk on a machine here at home to have a simple pbx with menus, extensions and voicemail. i bought a polycom 500 (i hate cisco phones, but then again i hate asterisk too) and got a phone number from dls (plug: dls offers this sip peering service!)

i setup asterisk with some basic menu routing and used at&t's tts (which i use in my phatsync script) to "record" the menus because i hate the sound of my voice. callers are greeted with a welcome message and dialing 1 or 2 goes to sales or support (which just prefix the caller id with "[sales]" or "[support]" and both route to my phone for now).

the only problem is that i have no ethernet upstairs, everything is wireless. so i had to setup this silly configuration of the polycom phone connecting (via its silly power-over-ethernet cable that still needs an ac adapter) to a hub, which connects to the laptop i have sitting on the floor via its ethernet interface, which then does nat and routes over its wireless interface to the access point in the basement, which bridges to the firewall, which bridges to the router, and then to the t1 to dls. packet loss what?