VOIP chaos

It never rains, but it pours - isn't that what they say?

In South Australia, it seems, it pours somewhere else but never here - but that's another story.

Voice over IP - well, it seems that the Linksys WAG54G router has a generic problem of losing its Ethernet connectivity. That, apparently, had happened to ours. Alas, there appeared to be little alternative to replacing the unit. So now there's a sedate looking little box in its place that boasts not only the wireless that was working fine before, the ethernet that wasn't but now is, but a VOIP connection as well.

Now it gets interesting. Our service provider responded, a year or so back, to my partners request to invoice her instead of me for its services by creating a new account. They left, apparently, the NodePhone service on my old account, and they never told me they'd done it. So the voice over IP account I'm working to activate is actually not attached to the account on which I'm trying to activate it on.

Confused yet? You're not alone.