Re: I was broken into ... last questions before purchase

[Armadillo Soup <louispoint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:o7R4f.18$71.902@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> You sound confused. On one hand you want protection against jamming on
> the other hand you dont think the thieves where you live are
> sophisiticated. You're concerned about false alarm fines, but you
> intend to be a local system (not monitored).

I'll certainly admit to being confused !

My hunch is that these are not overly sophisticated thieves ... I just
didn't have any idea how easy/hard it is to jam/screw up these wireless
systems. From what you just said, it sounds like that is not as easy as
just running to radio shack and buying a $5 piece of equipment ... so
that gives me a little more confidence in them.

Of course, I'm guessing about their skill level, but I don't think they
are terribly sophisticated. One thing they are clearly good at, however,
is jimming the locks open in the types of old buildings that exist around
here ...

> On wireless...I have hundreds of them out there an have never had one
> be jammed or circumvented...in fact the only false alarms I get from
> them are homeowners opening the transmitter cases, which are tampered,
> without telling us.

Cool ... I was a little worried about that.  You hear lots of horry
stories about lots wireless equipment interferring with itself.

> And you want CCTV over the net too.

Well, I didn't necessarily mean CCTV. Just a simple webcam type set up,
that takes a photo every 2 seconds and uses ftp to shoot it up to another
computer. I don't intend to monitor this all the time. The reason for the
camera was simply to check and see if I really had an intruder if the
alarm went off.