Re: Home Alarm and Vonage

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

"Mike" <mskaeser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.

That will do nothing

> 2) Some complicated rewiring to directly connect the Vonage router to
> the phone lines.

That will do nothing

> 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

> 4) Drop the monitoring

Thats up to you

> Anyone had success ?

It's a 50/50 shot if an alarm panel works or not, the problem is there is no
standard for Vonage