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So how is high speed internet going to be any better when you can cut that physical wire just as easily as any telephone line?

People's internet connections are frequently always-on, so that "monitored" means what, apparently, a monitored phone line doesn't anymore. To whit: The monitoring system can ping your alarm system every minute or so, and if it doesn't get an answer, freak. I recommend not using anything created by microsoft in such a system.

--Goedjn

If the cops showed up everytime my broadband connection was out I would need to widen the driveway.

HAHAH... Yeah, me too. Broadband isn't very stable, always down.

Did you know every time the cop show up and it's a false alarm it's $25?

On 24 Nov 2004 18:00:37 GMT "Greg" used 8 lines of text to write in newsgroup: alt.home.repair

As I already noted, this technology is not ready for the primary communication in residential use. It is currently deployed in high-end government facilities and private high security applications. These locations usually have T-1 or T-3 multi-homed Internet connections.

In the meantime there are cellular backups, and proprietary long range radio solutions.