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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On May 6, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Calvin Powers wrote:

> For the past year or so I've been on a long drawn out campaign to  
> get rid of the land line phone at my house. The *** thing costs me  
> $27 a month and i never ever use it. So I've got all my friends and  
> family trained to call my mobile number now. I've got the tivo  
> going out through the cable modem. So every thing is groovy.
>
> But the last thing in my house that still needs that phone line is  
> the security system. If someone breaks in, it uses the phone line  
> to call the security company.
>
> I would think that in this day and age, they'd have designed  
> security systems that could go out over the net instead of the  
> phone. But I've called both my current company and ADT and neither  
> seemed to even know what the hell the internet was.
>
> Anyone out there know of a home security company that can do this?

I have a security system in my office that goes over a VOIP  
connection, but its through a box shared by the fax machine.  The box  
in question is a gateway for a standard phone device to work through  
a VOIP system. The security system installer was familiar with the  
gateway device and just spliced the alarm system phone connection  
into the system.  As far as the security system is concerned its a  
regular phone line.

Of course this way of doing things is less secure in the sense its  
unlikely to work if the power is out, but a Bell South business land  
line was costing $65/month, and I received an invaluable sense of  
connection by kicking BellSouth completely out of the picture.

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