[ILUG] voip & alarm systems

[conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:28:26PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John P. Looney thought:
>  I'm at home, struggling with ISDN. If I threw it out, I'd get NTL
> broadband at about half the cost. However, I need to have a PSTN
> connection for my monitored alarm.
> 
>  If I got in NTL broadband, is there anyway that I could still have my
> eircom phonewatch alarm dial home ? I assume I'd end up having to have
> some sort of a linux router on all the time, acting as a VoIP gateway.

If you subscribed to a voip service, there's a widget that goes between
your plain phone and your network switch.  So long as that has a
connection to the ntl modem, internal phones should Just Work {tm} as
should your phonewatch system.  What eircom will say when you cancel their
phone lines is another matter...

Conor
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