Re: DSC 1555MX and PC1616 in alarm

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 24, 4:43=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:08:00 PM UTC-4, tourman wrote:
>
> > RHC: It's been a week now and the silence is deafening. To me that
> > says a lot about the state of our industry....:((
>
> Silence in the group or this thread?
>
> Group has been slow but not dead silent.
>
> But,I told you how this is going to end up, Robert. Ya gotta picture it n=
ow. Two old geezers, down in Florida in their respective nursing homes, sit=
ting on the sun porch in their wheelchairs with lap blankets, "think typing=
" to each other on their IBrainphones about the pro's and con's of long ter=
m contracts. Both of us not realizing that it is long =A0past the time afte=
r Magic Jack has taken over all alarm monitoring in the world, in The Cloud=
.

RHC: Well you could be right about it, at least as far as this
newsgroup is concerned. There's not much life left in the old lady
anymore. Seems to have died off right after RLB passed away...dunno
what that says, but it is what it is.

I wouldn't worry about VoIP; that's never going to amount to much for
alarm purposes, since it is designed without error checking, and was
never designed for digital data. Besides IP communications is coming
up so strongly that it will quickly surpass it, since it works. Five
years from now, every board manufactured will come with IP on board
including the necessary RJ45 connector. VoIP...also a dead issue

I'm not sure I'm going to bother with this newsgroup much anymore, but
after 15 years it's hard to discard. It's also discouraging to think
that few others care to deal with the ills of our industry unless they
directly impact their bottom line...