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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Originally Posted by WilsonTC
And there goes your link with the outside world. No calls to 9-1-1. No police response. Call 9-1-1 from your cellphone? Takes time and doesn't deliver your home address.
The "high end security" companies around here almost always fail to secure the outside phone lines. The line doesn't have to be cut, just shorted (or dialed) to make busy. Without the RJ31x installed properly, there will be no alarm or outbound call.
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...the cops showed because the alarm monitoring called them...I don't know the tech details. Actually, the hole dug by the fence company knocked out not just my line, but several homes around me. I'll admit, if it had been a real breaking & entering, the sheriff's dept wouldn't have been much help...2o minutes or so response time. Deputy told me they prefer silent alarms...gives them a better chance of catching the perps. So maybe they don't respond as fast to loud alarms?
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