Re: is wireless mature yet

["petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been using wireless at my place for a long time...about 1/3 of my zones
are wireless..Mostly cause I didn't want to pass wire to those spot cause I
am lazy...;-)

and because I trust it..

I use wireless for contact ,I don't like wireless PIR,and I don't use any
here.. 2 of my smoke are wireless and I have one hard wired (was already
wired when I got the home ;-) )


never had a problem from RFI (and I am an ham radio operator,and I transmit
to up to 1000 watt RF power on some band(HF) )

only time I had a prob was when my transmitter was dead cause it was too
cold in the garage and battery could not cope...I got a small trouble on the
keypad and I just had to open the thermostat in the garage 1/2 hour later
all was back to normal..


I use an hybrid system from DSC power 832...but I like Paradox too...

ITI is ok...but didn't played with there new system lately..

Ademco...I don't like anything from them...period...



"cdn_bcn" <jonathan_h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
dej98v$jo4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
>