I would stick with POTS over using the internet. With the internet there are more points of failure (IMO). As far as people cutting the wires we have both. We have a reg. pots line and a prepaid cell phone connected in for backup.
--- Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Bob for your response. Yes, I am looking for > a way to have 100% > VOIP, if it's still unreliable, I guess the analog > line stays, of course > there is the cell-option, do you still have to have > a analog port if you get > the cell-option and as far as I know that's > reliable, in fact, IMHO more > reliable, someone could always cut your phone line > and then if you have > cell-option AFAIK you are ok? > > I am hoping the alarm companies adopt quicker to the > internet. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob McDowell > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:31 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial > Discussion > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm > dialing through Asterisk > > > Be very careful here. I work in this industry and > can tell you that > certain alarm formats are VERY sensitive to VoIP. > Your best bet is to > avoid it until the industry comes up with an > Alarm-over-IP standard. It > may work today and not tomorrow. It may work over > long distance > numbers, but not over 800 numbers. It gets weird. > Personally, I blame > the cost-saving efforts of our friendly neighborhood > telcos... > > Now if you're talking about analog-Asterisk-analog > then you'd probably > be fine. > > > > Bob McDowell > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lists > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing > through Asterisk > > > > Has anyone successfully hooked up ADT or Brinks home > alarm system to say > a analog port or SIPURA through Asterisk? > > > > TIA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com > -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com > -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
