From: "KJ1" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Home Security Question-REPLY TO ALL....
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:21:30 -0400

Thanks for the reply.

This house isn't pre-wired.  I looked into wireless, but the system I saw
still needed the phone line.

I will look up DSC on google.  If there is a website that you know of,
please let me know.

Thanks again.

God bless,
KJ


"Clark W. Griswold, Jr." <73115 dot 1041 at compuserve dot com> wrote in
message news:sj9kd0lq93pi2gtsstlmnffsrr03p1a8u5@4ax.com...
> "KJ1"  wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to have the equip montiored where it will call me instead
of
> >the police?  Where it would call my cell for example?  Then maybe I could
> >know and call the police myself and just buy the equipment and have it
> >notify me?  Just a thought.
> >
>
> Absolutely. In fact that is exactly what I did. The house was prewired for
> alarms, so I found a local dealer that would do an equipment sale and
install
> only for a reasonable price (IIRC around $600 for equipment - 3 panels, 2
> sirens, 1 movement, all doors & windows - and install - it would have been
> higher if he had to pull wires or go wireless (battery - yuch).
>
> The DSC equipment is fully programmable. 10 years ago it supported all
alarm and
> pager protocols. Nowdays they probably do email & direct internet as well.
I
> have it set to call my cell phone in pager mode. You can even have it tell
you
> what kind of alarm (zone #, battery, etc.)
>
> No monitoring fees. If it goes off when I am out of town or unavailable, I
call
> a friend or neighbor to check things out.
>
> >Another thought was the phone line issue. I do have where my outside line
> >can be cut (if a person knows what they are doing) and the co. rep. said
> >that only happens 2-3% of the time, and they would have to know which one
is
> >your phone line, but my set up is pretty obvious and towards the street,
but
> >the system they are installing is wired to the phone line.  I am thinking
I
> >might cancel and want to go wireless.   Just another thought.
>
> DSC offers a cell phone option as cell, where the cell phone is built into
the
> alarm system. Somewhat like Onstar - doesn't matter if they break the
wire.