Re: Home alarm & phone lines question

["Bill" <bill190nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually most residential burglars are not smart enough to snip wires -
watch America's Dumbest Criminals to get an idea.

If they are smart enough to snip wires, they would not be trying to rip-off
someone's TV or whatever, they would go after something more worthwhile.

If you have a lot of stuff which is more valuable than what a typical
homeowner would have - something which might attract a higher class burglar
with brains, then you can get a concealed inside phone drop and leave the
existing drop as a dummy drop.

And/or get a cell phone backup. If silent alarm, can set it to be audible if
can't get through to monitoring center.


<runderwo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>I noticed in my telco box that the red/green goes to the alarm panel
> first, then the rest of the house is wired off two other wires that
> return from the alarm panel.  I am guessing that this is so that the
> alarm can isolate the rest of the phones in the house and dial out
> even if a phone is off hook somewhere?
>
> Also, the buried telco cable runs conspicuously up to the phone box on
> the wall, and the wire to the alarm panel runs conspicuously out of
> the phone box up the wall and into the soffet.  I could take care of
> the latter problem by drilling through the wall behind the box and
> running the wire through the wall.  I could also armor the supply wire
> with conduit.  But I'm not sure how much these measures really matter
> if the burglar could just get into the box with a flathead and snip
> the wires.
>
> I know they have those services that monitor for an open phone line,
> but I've already had several telephone outages since moving here and
> it is my understanding that a telephone outage in conjunction with
> those services would product a false alarm, correct me please if I'm
> wrong.
>
> Am I chasing my tail or is there a way to make disabling the phone
> system less easy or obvious?
>