Re: Home Alarm and Vonage

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"bdebj2" <djoiner3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> >> 2) Some complicated rewiring to directly connect the Vonage router to
> >> the phone lines.
> >
> > That will do nothing
>
>
> yes, it will, but you need line siezure on the phones...
> but you ALSO need to call vonage and tell them
> to change the packet size to "10" and change the voice quality
> to "high".....they will know what you are talking about....
>
> >> 3) Ask my monitoring company to try to fix it, for a heft price.
> >
> > If you can't send signals now they won't be able to without adding a
> > cellular module of some kind
>
> no  "cellular module of some kind" needs to be installed......
> after calling vonage, and changing the above mentioned,
> everything should work, but if not, have the alarm company
> come out, reprogram the board so there is no =automatic=
>  upload of any kind

As I stated before most VOIP companies send you a module or a cable/DSL
modem capable of VOIP hence it will not have a battery backup

1. No internet = no phones
2. No power to the house = no phones

I would never recommend connecting to VOIP without some kind of backup