| The best fast and dirty test, is if you can send a fax over it, usually, it's good enough. Services like vonage have limited ability to call normal landline.
Line seizure is based on your in house wiring. See the FAQ. Basically the adaptor takes the place of the telco.
The wildcards boil down to the quality of the adaptor. Some do a better job than others. Also, any downstream outage hoses you.
In my opinion, I think your alarm installer is trying very hard to upsell you _and_ lock you into their service.
Read the archived posts. The Vista 20p is nearly a daily topic. It's really not a difficult system to work with.
FIOS isn't really the issue. It's poor installer service. __________________
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