Technical Notes
LMi.net will provide updates regarding our equipment as well as other pertinent technical information for our customers with regard to our serviceConfiguring the SmartRG Gateway with a Static IP Address
LMi.net is not associated with SmartRG and can not facilitate or answer support related questions relating to this equipment for individuals or businesses who are not current internet customers.By default, all of our DSL circuits come with a dynamically assigned IP...
Recommended Streaming Media Products
More and more people are steaming music and video from the Internet, or from files on their computers. We often get asked about the best way to do this. Here are some of our favorite products... Network Attached Storage (or NAS) If you have your own collection of...
Upload Saturation
From time to time we get calls from customers that tell us their network speed has suddenly dropped way down. We then look at the bandwidth utilization for the circuit and see somethng like this: This is showing data that is being...
Greylisting
LMi.net is now using an anti-spam technique called Greylisting on our mail servers. Greylisting has proven to be quite effective at reducing the amount of spam our servers get. It works like this: When we get an incoming email message from an email server we haven't...
Resetting your Voicemail Password
All of our PHLO+ circuits come with built-in voice mail that can take messages when you are away from home, or on the phone. Your voicemail messages can be retrieved from any telephone, but you will need the voice mail PIN code that was setup when voicemail was first...
Trapping spam sent from certain top-level domains
We have noticed over the past year an inordinate amount of spam coming in from certain top-level domains. (a Top Level Domain, or TLD, is what is after the last period.. such as .com, .net, or .edu). The TLDs we noticed in particular were .CO, .UK, .EU, .ME and .US....