Re: NextAlarm and ABn Adapter Question

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, thanks for that.
So who (whom?) exactly is Next ?

This gets more curiouser :-)

btw...and it's only 8.95 if you prepay a year...if you pay monthly its
14.95.


"Jen...tel" <poleclimber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Jackcsg, the ABN does communicate with the computers at Nextalarm
| frequently.  It does not communicate only once a night like other
| alarms.  It does not communicate all the time so disconnect it and it
| could be an hour before they know.  It will tell you at your computer
| that a network device was disconnected but if your not there????
| You need to connect it to a wall outlet with aplug in transformer.
| remove the plug and your ABN is dead.  (had that happen with the
| digium).
| Nextalarm does not monitor any alarms at all.  They operate a computer
| server center.  If all you use is the e-mail notification or auto cell
| phone notification, it's through their computers, no human involved.
| If you have monitoring with humans involved, the alarm goes to Next and
| is rerouted to their contract centers in CA or NJ.  They become only a
| middleman to send signals.  I had the actual human service and the
| response sucked.  Took longer for the monitoring to get the rerouted
| message.  Had it delayed for over 15 minutes once.  they claimed they
| got it later, BS, Next's computer said 10am received, the monitoring
| center said they got it from next at 10:15 am, A delay for what?
| The ABN also simulates so much that the alarm does not know if the
| message went through.  IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE TALKING TO THE ALARM
| MONITORING FOR THE ABN TO TELL THE ALARM SYSTEM IT WAS SUCESSFUL.  All
| it does is pretend everything worked even if it didn't, and hopes it
| can eventually get through to send the alarm message.  I had a DSL
| service outage and the alarm never told me it didn't communicate.
| Before going with Next, it would dial and dial and say it didn't
| communicate.  I did switch to a real service.
| Crash, U B Right on the Head!  Next has no idea if what they get from
| the alarm is what is really going on.  You can tell them a door is on a
| zone when it's a panic button.  Ypou can tell them all your zones are
| holdup alarms and that's all they know.  You can make up anything and
| they dont know.  I was dumb when SO stopped responding to alarms and
| decided to go with the low price.  After buying one adapter only to
| have to buy another, i bet they make lots of money selling adapters.
| Thats probably where their bread and butter comes from.  I got a tip
| from one person who said to hook the entry items to 2 zones, one listed
| as a entry the other as a motion.  Open a door and they got both door
| and motion, was a good way to simulate multi-zones to get response.
| Next didn't have a clue, still don't.
|