News
Posted by Michael Dale on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 4:29 PMWell I now have some news to share.
We (myself, max, josh and bryn) have just put down $3000 as a deposit to the new house we are moving into.
Yes that is right, I'm moving house!
The place is in enmore and is costing $490/week.
We are moving in on the 17th of december (8 days!).
We found this place last week and really liked it. All a bit of a rush.
Pictures of the house are here.
More news to come.
We have everything, but a fridge and washing machine :p (we have a drier and stuff). Although we have some stuff on loan for a few months.
We’ll get the phone line connected early next week. We have internode DSLAMs in the exchange, but currently there are no free ports. We have been told there should be more installed soonish (hopefully this year).
We are going onto the 24mbit ADSL2+ Extreme plan (with 1mbit upload and static ip). I finally get to run my DNS :)
All servers are being replaced with bigger, better and faster stuff and we're going to wire the house with 6 cisco VoIP phones.
The thin clients will be placed around the house too! :)
I propose a LAN Party as a housewarming!
Hah! You actually HAVE A USE for the TCs! Wow. I'm impressed :P
So you're paying $490 a week for the house, $~20 a week for internet, and $400 a week for power? ;-)
Oh, psst, if you want a hand running Cat5/6 cables or whatever just give a yell.
I suspect we will have a REALLY fun time running ethernet cables....I envisage us living amidst blue cables hanging everywhere ;)
Call it the LANAmazon or something... it'd be a forest of ethernet cables then. :P
Mmm yes...the mythical Hanging Gardens of Cat5ylon....
Yes we're going to need to organise cabling.
The photos of the house are pretty poor, so it is a bit hard to explain everything.
We have 3 bedrooms upstairs and one down. We're also going to put servers downstairs.
Wow, that's gonna be one "connected" house. Got room for one more? ;)
well, we could always have someone sleep in the little alley down the side between the kitchen and living room.....but you'd have to pay equal rent ;)
Developing world accomodation at developed world prices. Sounds good. :P
I've got to order the Cat5...I'm just going to buy a 500m roll I think, I have some networking jobs coming up early next year :)
How many servers are you intending to actually keep in there to start?
Erm, we're thinking 3 to start with (hehe).
Asterisk (VoIP) server
Web/DNS server
Mail/Terminal Server/Storage
Nothing like an internal VoIP network to show off our exceptional level of geekiness ;)
Wooo! Congrats!
Heh, do you have a fridge and stuff? :P Washing machine?
Now I've asked the important questions, what kind of DSLAMs are installed in the area? ;-)