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Looking at signing up with SunRocket for VOIP but have 2 concerns.

1. Will my ADT alarm still work? I know the alarm itself will but is
there a way to still have it contact ADT when there's an issue?

2. I own 2 older Panasonic Replay units (like Tivo) that dial out and
download channel guides each night...no option to use broadband. Will
these units still be able to dial out if I got VOIP?

Perhaps you should keep at LEAST ONE PSTN LINE CONNECTIN. AND USAE A CLT
SWITCH HERE, TO AUTO SWITCH AND ROUTE BETWEEN THE TWO LINE SOUCES?


marc

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"The Other Mike" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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Looking at signing up with SunRocket for VOIP but have 2 concerns.

1. Will my ADT alarm still work? I know the alarm itself will but is
there a way to still have it contact ADT when there's an issue?

2. I own 2 older Panasonic Replay units (like Tivo) that dial out and
download channel guides each night...no option to use broadband. Will
these units still be able to dial out if I got VOIP?

Perhaps you should keep at LEAST ONE PSTN LINE CONNECTIN. AND USAE A CLT
SWITCH HERE, TO AUTO SWITCH AND ROUTE BETWEEN THE TWO LINE SOUCES?

"The Other Mike" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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Looking at signing up with SunRocket for VOIP but have 2 concerns.
1. Will my ADT alarm still work? I know the alarm itself will but is
there a way to still have it contact ADT when there's an issue?

"Marc Popek" <LVMarc@Att.Net> writes:
Perhaps you should keep at LEAST ONE PSTN LINE CONNECTIN. AND USAE A CLT
SWITCH HERE, TO AUTO SWITCH AND ROUTE BETWEEN THE TWO LINE SOUCES?

"The Other Mike" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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Looking at signing up with SunRocket for VOIP but have 2 concerns.
1. Will my ADT alarm still work? I know the alarm itself will but is
there a way to still have it contact ADT when there's an issue?

Why wouldn't he just want to plug the alarm into the outside line?

Most alarms have a modem that transmit the data to the central office. I
don't know how reliable a modem is over VOIP.

"Vox Humana" <vhumana@hotmail.com> writes:
Most alarms have a modem that transmit the data to the central office.
I
don't know how reliable a modem is over VOIP.

I agree. The voip line is a bit of a crap shoot with data over it.
The one thing that may help is that the alarm modems are downright
ancient and only transmit a few bytes of data. Compared to faxes or
modern v.92 modems, I'd give the alarms a lot higher probability of
making it out.

Of course, there are many more things to go wrong in a voip system.

(My objection to the 2-line -> 1-line Radio-Shack device was that it
didn't solve the stated problem. Mixing the two lines doesn't help in
getting the alarm signal out. Personally I'd just keep the pots line
but go for the cheapest pay-by-the-minute billing plan and hook the
alarm to that.)

I wish the phone company would offer a rally cheap "life line" service for a
few dollars a month. Unfortunately it is an all-or-nothing situation here.
They were nasty when I wanted to port my number to the VOIP provider, but
they offered no competitive alternative. All things considered, they should
offer some minimal service to try to retain customers. I think that Time
Warner is really snatching their customers, both for VOIP and internet, even
though TW's VOIP price is insanely expensive.

As for the combine-a-line device, it has its problems. I guess I didn't
fully understand how it worked when I bought one from Ebay. I does route
the call for either port on my ATA to my common phone line which rings all
the phones in my house. The problem is that the default line becomes which
ever line someone last called in on. I had my local line ported to one
service and bought an out-of-town DID from another provider so relatives in
another city could call me without paying long distance fees. Each is set-up
on a different port on the ATA. I hadn't intended to dial out on the
out-of-town line, but I had to buy minutes from both companies because I
never know which line will be selected. The switch is in the basement so it
isn't convenient to run up and down steps to change the switch to the line I
prefer to call out on.

"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
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"Vox Humana" <vhumana@hotmail.com> writes:
Most alarms have a modem that transmit the data to the central office.
I
don't know how reliable a modem is over VOIP.

I agree. The voip line is a bit of a crap shoot with data over it.
The one thing that may help is that the alarm modems are downright
ancient and only transmit a few bytes of data. Compared to faxes or
modern v.92 modems, I'd give the alarms a lot higher probability of
making it out.

Of course, there are many more things to go wrong in a voip system.

(My objection to the 2-line -> 1-line Radio-Shack device was that it
didn't solve the stated problem. Mixing the two lines doesn't help in
getting the alarm signal out. Personally I'd just keep the pots line
but go for the cheapest pay-by-the-minute billing plan and hook the
alarm to that.)

I wish the phone company would offer a rally cheap "life line" service for
a
few dollars a month. Unfortunately it is an all-or-nothing situation
here.
They were nasty when I wanted to port my number to the VOIP provider, but
they offered no competitive alternative. All things considered, they
should
offer some minimal service to try to retain customers. I think that Time
Warner is really snatching their customers, both for VOIP and internet,
even
though TW's VOIP price is insanely expensive.

As for the combine-a-line device, it has its problems. I guess I didn't
fully understand how it worked when I bought one from Ebay. I does route
the call for either port on my ATA to my common phone line which rings all
the phones in my house. The problem is that the default line becomes
which
ever line someone last called in on. I had my local line ported to one
service and bought an out-of-town DID from another provider so relatives
in
another city could call me without paying long distance fees. Each is
set-up
on a different port on the ATA. I hadn't intended to dial out on the
out-of-town line, but I had to buy minutes from both companies because I
never know which line will be selected. The switch is in the basement so
it
isn't convenient to run up and down steps to change the switch to the line
I
prefer to call out on.

So then I'm taking this to mean that the answer for both 1 and 2 is no
unless I keep my existing local service and add this switch. Correct?

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:01:29 GMT, "Marc Popek" <LVMarc@Att.Net> wrote:

Perhaps you should keep at LEAST ONE PSTN LINE CONNECTIN. AND USAE A CLT
SWITCH HERE, TO AUTO SWITCH AND ROUTE BETWEEN THE TWO LINE SOUCES?


marc


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"The Other Mike" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:52t1p1htbvht9jp7fr15bm08a4invuhud9@4ax.com...
Looking at signing up with SunRocket for VOIP but have 2 concerns.

1. Will my ADT alarm still work? I know the alarm itself will but is
there a way to still have it contact ADT when there's an issue?

2. I own 2 older Panasonic Replay units (like Tivo) that dial out and
download channel guides each night...no option to use broadband. Will
these units still be able to dial out if I got VOIP?

vox,

what you say is true about the combine-a-line, the outbound is not
defaulted
to a specific line out for outbound...

Upgrade is planned to address this issue........