On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:28:26 +0000 "John P. Looney" <valen at tuatha.org> wrote:
| 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.
To be honest, any solution which depends on multiple pieces of network
hardware to be powered and working like that sounds a little prone to
failing at some crucial point.
One of the reasons I didn't go with ISDN was that (as far as I'm aware)
the BRI end point needs mains power to operate. I suppose the ideal
solution would be if one of the mobile operators provided a monitoring
service based around GPRS, but I'm not aware of such a thing actually
existing.
Paul
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