Re: Home Alarm and Vonage

[Crash Gordon® <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I quit trying VoIP...good thing I only had a handful. Too unreliable. =
Told the homeowners to order pots lines...now I can sleep at night.



"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
news:MJKdnVKDD5yI4ijfRVn-jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|=20
| "Mike" <mskaeser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:1119163299.376731.196550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > I recently switched to Vonage and for awhile my home alarm system =
could
| > not dial the monitoring station to check in, when I lost my local =
phone
| > service.  I recently isolated the home phone lines and can use them =
as
| > before with multiple phones, but the home alarm still cannot call =
out.
| > I've read a few ideas as to a solution :
| >
| > 1) Re-program the alam to append a '#' at the end of the number it
| > calls.  Assuming I can reprogram it at all.
|=20
| That will do nothing
|=20
| > 2) Some complicated rewiring to directly connect the Vonage router =
to
| > the phone lines.
|=20
| That will do nothing
|=20
| > 3) Ask my monitoring company to try to fix it, for a heft price.
|=20
| If you can't send signals now they won't be able to without adding a
| cellular module of some kind
|=20
| > 4) Drop the monitoring
|=20
| Thats up to you
|=20
| > Anyone had success ?
|=20
| It's a 50/50 shot if an alarm panel works or not, the problem is there =
is no
| standard for Vonage
|=20
|