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Originally Posted by MrRonFL  If the telephone adaptor emulates a phone line properly, |
Is there a way to tell if this is the case?
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| (like any voice over digital solution, it has some drawbacks). |
Are there any major ones besides the limited battery backup time? I can live with that, but I would not be satisfied if, for instance, line seizure didn't work.
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| The FIOS phone adaptor _is_ a version of voice over IP, |
I guess what I meant is that my impression is that it is not the same as, say, Vonage.
I'm not sure what I should do at this point. I thought the alarm company would come out and set me up with a year of monitoring and I would just pay the fee. I'm kind of swamped right now (trying to get settled in the new place and we have a baby), but in a year or so I thought I might like to try one of the do-it-yourself oriented monitoring services that are a lot cheaper.
But now the alarm company thinks I need to spend $300 on IGSM + the monitoring service, and if they do the monitoring they will change and lock the installer code so I won't be able to do anything with the system myself in the future (not sure if this is negotiable). And I'm annoyed to realize that I don't have any keypads advanced enough to program the system anyway (it's an Ademco Vista-20PSIA, and I only have fixed text keypads, not the 2-line one you need for programming). So I'd be tempted to chuck the company and put in a new keypad, but I'm not sure how complicated it will be to set up the monitoring myself for the first time (as opposed to changing the monitoring arrangement on a system that was already monitored), especially if FIOS makes it more complicated.