Who's your favorite alarm monitoring service?

Posts: 26 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 26

see that broadband adapater would NOT work for me because I have my alarm panel downstairs in a crawl space, and my internet LAN wires are all upstairs coming directly out of my wireless internet router. Now if the nextalarm broadband adapter had a Wireless G connection then I could use it, I would just plug the alarm panel output phone cable into the broadband adapter, then the broadband adapter would WIRELESSLY transfer the signal to my upstairs internet router...

Posts: 282 · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:37 pm Post subject:

squale wrote:

see that broadband adapater would NOT work for me because I have my alarm panel downstairs in a crawl space, and my internet LAN wires are all upstairs coming directly out of my wireless internet router. Now if the nextalarm broadband adapter had a Wireless G connection then I could use it, I would just plug the alarm panel output phone cable into the broadband adapter, then the broadband adapter would WIRELESSLY transfer the signal to my upstairs internet router...

You can (according to their web site - no personal experience yet) use a wireless bridge to do what your saying. The bridge receives/transmits wirelessly, but is hardwired Cat5 to the Broadband Adapter (or other ethernet devices), essentially making the Broadband Adapter a wireless device.

Posts: 101 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jun 05, 2005 Posts: 101

I didn't buy their adapter.

The support guy who I talked to said that Voip is about 80-90% reliable. For me, that was good enough.

However, when you login to Nextalarm, they show the current status of your alarm "Armed" or "Disarmed" and it has never missed a beat.

So I am glad I didn't buy that $100 box from them.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 06, 2008 Posts: 1

I have moved around quite a bit over the last ten years and have had security systems from different providers. I recently moved to North Carolina and got a security system from cpisecurity.com. I have to say that I am very pleased and this system is the best one I have had yet. Their customer service is great and although I spent a little more I felt like I was getting a quality product. Good protection means more to me than saving a few bucks. The 2 way speaker and real time response system was a real selling point to me.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 16, 2009 Posts: 1

I just switched from Global Security Systems (http://www.globalsecuritysystems.net) a small Northern California alarm company to Alarm Relay and am very satisfied (and saved $$$ $22 per month!). Global Security Systems did some sleazy things like locking my equipment to prevent anyone else from monitoring it even though I paid for it. Avoid this sleazy two-bit outfit!

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 26, 2009 Posts: 1

I've been using MyAlarmMonitoring for two months and I like the service. $12.95 per month for a fully monitored system with no BS prepay garbage to hassle with. The service is basic and does what I need for cheap.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Aug 12, 2009 Posts: 1

not sure weather i have done this wright but i was trying to reply about monitored alarms.
i went with a company called direct reponse security from birmingham. i rang them after i had a break in, they came to see me the same day and as my wife was terreffied to go back in the house the man arranged to fit the alarm the next day, i have never any trouble with the alarm or the company