wierdo
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Tulsa, OK Reviews:
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| reply to PX Eliezer
Re: VoIP and Burglar Alarms: Bold thinking or old thinking? One of my clients recently moved, and with the move ended up with a new alarm system. It uses the Internet primarily, with the landline only as a backup. The alarm company likes it because they can manage things remotely.
If your alarm's only circuit to the outside world is over VoIP (other than VoIP provided by your circuit provider, like Cox, Comcast, or what have you), there's not really anything to be gained by having it dial in at all.
Personally, if I were the sort to have an alarm, I'd buy a metered rate land line. It's only a few dollars a month. You can't get anything like that from cable, although there are a few VoIP providers with similar rates. (Future Nine and at&t charge about the same for the same 200 outgoing minutes, and both with essentially unlimited incoming)
I'm currently paying $13 a month for an unlimited minute landline with no features whatsoever. (yes, that includes tax, as does the metered rate figure) Luckily, touch tone is free now. Otherwise it would be $14. 
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