Re: Home alarm & phone lines question

[surfer349 <madarengeil@xxxxxxxxx>]

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adam4firstline@xxxxxxxxx

On Jul 22, 6:17 pm, "runde...@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <runde...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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?