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I have an Elk M1 Gold system newly installed and am trying to figure out the best and most cost effective setup for monitoring.
From reading this forum, I surmise that Alarm Relay is a good monitoring company to use. Has anyone had any reliability problems with them (i.e. not being notified of an alarm) or is there any other reason to use someone else?
Also, from this forum (and from calling Alarm Relay), I hear that the HAI C3 would be good to get to protect against a burglar cutting our FIOS connection or a power outage (and that Uplink is another option but that folks have had trouble with it). Again, is there any reason not to get the HAI C3 or are there better options?? (the Alarm Relay rep also mentioned "RokoNet" but not a specific product -- anyone know of what she might have been referring to?)
A couple general questions:
*Should my primary connection to the monitoring service be the FIOS phone line (already connected to my Alarm Panel) or IP via the M1XEP (also already connected)?? Does it make sense to use both in some way (given that both are through FIOS)?
*Is there any way to be notified if my phone line and/or IP connection to the monitoring service goes down??
And I doubt anyone can help me with this, but is there any way to test whether I'll get a TMobile or ATT signal from my basement other than getting a phone or the C3 and paying for the service or finding someone who has a phone on those services? (most folks I know around here have Verizon)...
Thanks much for any/all advice!
Dave.
From reading this forum, I surmise that Alarm Relay is a good monitoring company to use. Has anyone had any reliability problems with them (i.e. not being notified of an alarm) or is there any other reason to use someone else?
Also, from this forum (and from calling Alarm Relay), I hear that the HAI C3 would be good to get to protect against a burglar cutting our FIOS connection or a power outage (and that Uplink is another option but that folks have had trouble with it). Again, is there any reason not to get the HAI C3 or are there better options?? (the Alarm Relay rep also mentioned "RokoNet" but not a specific product -- anyone know of what she might have been referring to?)
A couple general questions:
*Should my primary connection to the monitoring service be the FIOS phone line (already connected to my Alarm Panel) or IP via the M1XEP (also already connected)?? Does it make sense to use both in some way (given that both are through FIOS)?
*Is there any way to be notified if my phone line and/or IP connection to the monitoring service goes down??
And I doubt anyone can help me with this, but is there any way to test whether I'll get a TMobile or ATT signal from my basement other than getting a phone or the C3 and paying for the service or finding someone who has a phone on those services? (most folks I know around here have Verizon)...
Thanks much for any/all advice!
Dave.