We have just received an update from Fritz! about the famous, or should we say infamous Fritz! phones. We were expecting the Fritz! phones to come in on the 9th April but sadly this date has

come and gone. We have just been informed by the CEO of the Australian distributor for Fritz! (PC Range), that the shipment is due to arrive in their warehouse on the 1st May and we should have our allotment a few days later, making Warcom one of the first online stores in Australia to have stock of the Fritz! Fon MT-F.

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FREE Shipping on all DrayTek ADSL Modems for the last week of September!

From midday today, until next Friday (September 30th), all DrayTek Modems include free shipping Australia-wide.

This is of course in conjunction with our DrayTek price match policy

So in conclusion, Warcom are offering the best prices in Australia, free shipping Australia-wide and same day dispatch (while stocks last) on all DrayTek modems.

This is the time to buy! Please see below for a list of modems available under this promotion:

• DrayTek Vigor 120
• DrayTek Vigor 2710e
• DrayTek Vigor 2710ne
• DrayTek Vigor 2710
• DrayTek Vigor 2710n
• DrayTek Vigor 2710Vn
• DrayTek Vigor 2820
• DrayTek Vigor 2820n
• DrayTek Vigor 2820Vn
• DrayTek Vigor 2830
• DrayTek Vigor 2830n
• DrayTek Vigor 2830n+
• DrayTek Vigor 2830Vn
• DrayTek Vigor 2830Vn+

Wireless modem/routers with upgraded antennas are also available for free shipping!

If you have any queries regarding this or any other Warcom products, please don’t hesitate to contact us

Cheers,
Adam

Starting a small business can be a daunting task, there is so much to organise, plan and execute all whilst ensuring that the ship sails and doesn’t sink. One of the last things that is on a business owners mind is how to setup a telephone system, who to speak to, or where to go – and inevitably what will it all cost?

For most startups there is often difficulty knowing when to implement a telephone system. Most entrepreneurs are used to working primarily from their mobile phone. Operating solely on a mobile phone can be a limit to your growth especially when you start bringing on new staff. You are also always tied to the one number and the one simultaneous call and if it’s a personal mobile number you could have potential privacy issues after hours. There are a number of benefits to using VoIP and setting up a phone system, the main of them come out of flexibility, cheap phone calls, and in particular with vtalk the ease of setup and implementation. One of the great benefits of being a startup looking to implement VoIP is that if you choose to go IP right from the start. Which means that like your new venture you are literally boss of where you calls go, who you are with, what plan you go on and best of all you can own everything.

As a start up, here’s a couple of hot tips we’d like to share with you:

Internet Connectivity

For a startup business running from home, you can get away with using an ADSL 2+ connection (even naked connection with no line rental) in conjunction with a basic VoIP (SIP) service/plan. This type of service on a home connection should take you all the way until you’re ready to make the move into your own office as far as phone calls and use of internet go for up to 5 people.

Head over to our Broadband Deals page, to checkout the awesome offers we currently have available.

VoIP Plan

VoIP plans are what are now supplied by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Lines are now called channels and having two channels is now consider standard. Most ISP’s will charge about $10 per channel per month as opposed to having line rental at around $30 per month on traditional phone systems. Picking a VoIP plan can be tricky as there are so many out there, we recommend having your VoIP/SIP plan with the same provider as your Internet. We recommend and use Internode NodePhone.

Whilst you are setting up and deciding which number to advertise, it’s also a good time to consider if you should look at obtaining a 1300 number. The benefit is that like a VoIP number it moves with your business if you grow and relocate. Callers in also pay a local call cost only and it can give your business a national footprint overnight!

For 1300 numbers – we recommend Telecube.

Hardware:

As a one off cost of $1499 or $1500 bucks in non retail speak, you can grab yourself a vtalk that will plug directly into your network and run your telecommunications for your next 10 staff! If you’re serious about vtalk one of the great things is that the vtalk box is compatible with different handset manufacturers like Snom, Aastra, Yealink & Linksys, so you can pick which handsets you’re comfortable with. The other things to consider are, is your modem / router going to be suitable for VoIP and do you have enough free ports in your router/Switch?

We generally politely recommend you upgrading your modem for a quality DrayTek  modem anyway.

What You Need:

If you’re a start up business and looking to get your hands on a vtalk,  here’s an awesome bundle that you should take advantage of.

Our 3 user special including a vtalk, 3 Basic Snom handsets and a draytek modem router.

(1 x vtalk – IP PBX Telephone System)

(1 x DrayTek Vigor 2820n 4 Port ADSL Modem Wireless Router)

(3 x Snom 320 Full Featured VoIP IP Phone)

All for $2550 including delivery.

Speak to us today to place your order for this fantastic offer!

- Cheers,
Paul

So now that we’ve been using the vtalk for more than six months we thought that it was about time that we posted an article as to how things have been going for us.

Overall, we have been super impressed with what this little blue box can do and more importantly, how ‘easy’ everything is to actually setup and maintain!

Before I start harping on to much as to how amazingly fantastic this product is, it’s worth  mentioning the reasons ‘why’ we actually switched to vtalk and ditched our trusty old Trixbox.

Trixbox Issues:

• Calls kept dropping out.
• The box kept crashing.
• IAX connections dropped every few days, for no reason at all.
• Port 5060 was open therefore there was a continual threat of brute force attacking.
• Our 1300 number would just completely stop working!
• And many more!

So overall, Trixbox was not a great VoIP experience for us …. Needless to say, we’re glad we swapped when we did.. I was sick to death of fixing the box.

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We love the vtalk as it was simple, it  gives all the important features, that Trixbox did – but it is a whole lot more reliable and stable.

(At the time of writing this article I had not rebooted the vtalk in almost three months).

It’s also worth mentioning:

We’ve also switched to Internode NodePhone and have had vastly superior call quality!

We’re now using the all new DrayTek 2830N+!

The other cool thing that we’ve noticed is that it’s compatible with more of the products we use and sell, like the Linksys, Draytek and Yealink brands – so we didn’t need to ditch any of our gear to make it work!

So far so good – stay tuned for further updates as we continue exploration into the land of voip and vtalk.

Cheers,
- Paul.