Recent content by Brandon

  1. Brandon

    Switch Telecom's anti-FreePBX shockvertising

    Their service has actually been superb and been using them personally since about 2016, recommended them to all my voice clients as a preferred provider. Now have customers contacting me about the security of their PBX's even though they are fully updated patched and secured. If this is the...
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    Switch Telecom's anti-FreePBX shockvertising

    And for those of us who have fully updated, patched and firewalled PBX's? Is it right to just blanket-block everyone? What about when the next CVE comes out? To add: I do agree with the generalisation to protect unpatched, internet exposed pbx's. By all means - identify them and take action. My...
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    Switch Telecom's anti-FreePBX shockvertising

    Received the below email. Use trunks from SwitchTel on self hosted, fully updated, patched and firewalled FreePBX system. Outbound calls now blocked and must manually unblock. All my clients with a similar setup also received it and been blocked from dialing out. Thanks for ruining my Friday...
  4. Brandon

    Vumatel Trenched : Eliminate the CPE

    For me the benefit has been an overall better connectivity experience. Over the past 3+ years since connecting directly, I don't recall having to ever restart my equipment when the link had an issue. Compared to the past - if the link would bounce or return from an outage the CPE almost always...
  5. Brandon

    MyPBX U300

    Item wanted: Yeastar MyPBX U300 (T1/E1 interface needed) Is packaging essential?: No Desired age and condition: any age, preferably working Location: JHB / PTA Willing to accept a shipped item: Yes
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    Any way to stop getting spammed with the same planned maintenance sms for "Wattville - CHG-000002564"? On message #7 and counting, also not my area...
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    ET Nice DC Blue Advanced e-comms

    Recently got a DC Blue Advanced, was also hoping to use the e-coms data for HA integration. Got some very different readings to the OP's though, wondering if something has changed with the firmware? On mine, only ever seen 2 message types transmitted and they relate to the courtesy light being...
  8. Brandon

    Vodacom e-mails containing links to "portservice.co.za"

    Yes, I can also confirm. It is registered to Business Genetics, as is the sending email server domain insidedata.co.za Seeing as it passes SPF and DKIM for vodacom.co.za, didn't think it to be suspicious and just assumed Business Genetics were outsourced to manage these email comms
  9. Brandon

    The official Mikrotik router thread

    First power then the button - you need to interrupt the boot sequence. If the button is held before powerup then it just loads the backup boot loader and won't ethernet boot.
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    The official Mikrotik router thread

    The button pressing needs to happen during boot: Have done with the device still on the network with mixed results. Using a direct connection is the recommended method. Edit: You can also force ethernet booting by logging into the hap and setting /system routerboard settings set...
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    The official Mikrotik router thread

    Directly connect to eth1 Set a static ip on the PC In netinstall, go to "net booting" set a different client ip on the same subnet as the PC Power up the hap lite then holding the reset button in for 15 secs until usr led is off After a few seconds the hap should appear in the routers/drives...
  12. Brandon

    RISC-V computer entirely inside Terraria

    Original article from PC Gamer
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    The official Mikrotik router thread

    6.49 would use less space by only installing essential individual packages. There should also be a performance improvement. DoH is supported since 6.47 Only major missing element would be wireguard. Forced to downgraded 2x RB750's as they became unusably slow with v7
  14. Brandon

    app or phone with "digit filter" feature?

    It was indeed. AFAIK, truecaller also only allows single numbers to be added, not ranges
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    app or phone with "digit filter" feature?

    Have been a happy LG phone owner for the past few years, particularly due to them having a digit filter feature. Located under call settings -> call blocking, the digit filter allowed whole number ranges to be blocked (matching either a "starts with" or "ends with" condition). For example an...
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