AlarmTech
Las Vegas,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, December 28, 2009
How is the SIA format old "style" When I think old style I think of 3/1 format or 4/2 which uses the slowest 300 baud rate. SIA and Contact ID are standard fast formats. No undefined signals and they come over 3 times faster than other formats. Listen on your buttset to a 4/2 signal sometime and compare it to SIA, see which is faster. And yes you can get it to work with digital phones, but not VoIP. It seems alot of people in the industry cant seem to tell the difference. Digital phones go through the cable provider to the phone company to Monitronics. VoIp goes from the unregulated internet to the regular phone systems. There is no standards for these and they are not reliable. You should not hook up a system to VoIP in the 1st place, that's what cell units are for.
The is no VRT, there is a website you can acess to do all your testing and signal checks. And with the internet available every where you could do that. VRT are dangerous now because they help verify off caller ID, but these IDs can be fooled not. And being Monitronics is a SECURITY company they seemed to have opted to play it safe.
It seems like to me you could not provide decent accounts to buy and ended up not paying your bill. And when Monitronics has to notify your customers that your have failed to pay their monitoring because they are in danger of have their service cut off. But if airing your sour grapes here makes you feel better than go ahead.