Re: is wireless mature yet

["cdn_bcn" <jonathan_h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for the info.

> Jackcsg

> My God! Imagine being new to this group, and doing a Google "search" about
wireless...

Yes, as you can imagine, this did provide *a lot* of entertaining reading.

A couple of follow ups ...

I wish to avoid the big players because -- ADT huge fees that I would
actually call 'insane', a friend had problems with them; Alarm Force you
don't own the system plus you still pay huge fees and I also don't believe
anything is free.  Chubb interested me because they didn't push the low cost
install lease-to-own type thing when I said that basic install wasn't going
to cut it in my place.  That's when they mentioned Simon3.  When I said I'd
prefer to buy the system, their monitoring rate came down to much more
reasonable but their contract went up to 5 years.  That's when I became
'less interested in Chubb'.  Weird, actually, wouldn't you think they'd be
excited that I'm willing to buy the system outright and offer a *shorter*
contract?

With these experiences, I thought I'd look local, but in speaking with two
local's, they are really not excited about wireless to put it mildly.  One
did say they would do the downstairs wireless (Paradox or DSC), but then I
began to wonder a) does this mean they feel it's an acceptable risk putting
in half the house wireless when they'd rather not, and b) if not and they're
not worried about putting wireless downstairs, then why not the whole house?
Hmmm.

Regards.