Re: Is low-priced Internet monitoring reliable?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should by a card for my XR-200 im pretty sure my cs is setup for it...I
need to learn that setup anyway.
Do you have a glass keypad? They look cool.



"blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
| > I'm pretty sure my CS is setup for DMP, I;ve never used the internet DMP
| > though. I should set mine up for it, but Im too lazy.
|
| I've been very pleased with the Internet module for multiple reasons:
| - Contact is faster since it doesn't require dialing and modem handshake
|  (this may not be significant but it is true...)
| - You don't lose your regular phone connection when the alarm dials
|  out either during a real emergency, a false alarm, or a test
| - You can remotely monitor and change settings on your alarm using
|  something like RemoteLink. I find this very helpful since I am on
|  the road a lot. Also, it makes programming a LOT easier than using
|  the keypad
| - Finally and maybe most importantly, if the Internet connection is
|  down the trouble keypads signal a continuous tone and display
|  NETWORK -TBL. Also, the receiver, can be programmed to poll for
|  connectivity every X minutes and to report a failure if no
|  connectivity after Y minutes. This is not really feasible with an
|  ordinary dial-up connection.