Re: Bypass Telco's NID box?

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jen...tel wrote:
> Let me tell you Crash, you are full of it.  What you said is why we
> look at you alarm guys as wannabe-technicians.  You guys are never
> wrong in anything are you?  20+ years and you say you never had a
> single case where you screwed up a phone line and the NetTech was
> right to cut you off the loop?  Thats bull up to your ears.  We make
> mistakes, all of us, and if I see something our tech did screwy, they
> will hear about it.  I can tell you about mistakes we make that will
> make your hair curl. You alarm guys simple talk the shit like you
> never do anything wrong.  That's why you get what you get from us.
>
> I also don't think you understand what it takes to trouble shoot a
> phone line.  You are only looking at the wire you installed from the
> NID to the alarm and back.  We have to look at every circuit,
> including yours.  To unplug the alarm Rj is to forget that there are
> wires going to and from it that can be the problem.  Your simple
> explaination is another one of those things you think is correct but
> not so simple anymore, is it?
>
> I read the post on the NID and you alarm guys keep saying all this
> crap about what to do and screw the phone company or they won't do
> it.  The guy who actually did something about the NID said he had no
> problem with the phone company moving it and the cost was not so bad.
> That makes what you guys say plain old bull.
>
> If all you who want to get on our case for charging for out labor,
> tell me what you charge per hour to add equipment or do service.  You
> guys have one lousy house on a street with one phone line to the
> alarm yet you think you are the master technicians of the
> communications world. We have hundreds of lines with various
> operations on that street and they all work unless you mess with it,
> now who's pulling who's leg?

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js