Re: Home alarm & phone lines question

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

telcos won't do it. read my post above...basically you'd cover the feed from
the ground up and into your garage with EMT or Rigid conduit. I've even done
this with concrete.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





<runderwo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Jul 23, 9:58 am, "Bill" <bill190nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| > 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,
|
| I don't really own a lot of stuff, it is more for secondary personal
| protection than for protecting any sort of valuables.  (Primary
| personal protection is under the bed)
|
| > then you can get a concealed inside phone drop and leave the
| > existing drop as a dummy drop.
|
| How does this work with buried cable and a slab, would the telco
| charge a big fee for this?  I can mount and wire the box myself but
| I'd need them to bring the buried wire into the house somehow.
|
| > And/or get a cell phone backup. If silent alarm, can set it to be
audible if
| > can't get through to monitoring center.
|
| Yeah, I'm considering that now since several posters mentioned it.
| Sounds like it'd be a lot less trouble and no less reliable.
|