OT: VERY SIMPLE HOME NETWORK

[charles day]

Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Putting quill to paper and scribbling furiously on Mon, Dec 27 15:36  
> charles day missed achieving immortality when he said: 
> 
> 
>>Brian K. White wrote:
>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "charles day" <daychls at verizon.net>
>>>To: "filePro List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>>>Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:56 AM
>>>Subject: Re: OT: VERY SIMPLE HOME NETWORK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Fairlight wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', guy_templin done said:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Art,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I just set up a DSL line for a friend of mine in Verizon area. 
>>>>>>Verizon supplied a wireless DSL modem/router. I don't know where you 
>>>>>>are located at but you may want to check out what is supplied or 
>>>>>>available from your DSL provider before buying anything else that 
>>>>>>you may not need. Just my $.02 worth.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>In my experiences, the modem and router are usually two entirely 
>>>>>separate
>>>>>entities.  Any idea what make and model they were doling out?
>>>>>
>>>>>mark->
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Verizon sent me 4 line filters and 1 wall phone filter along with a 
>>>>Westell VersaLink 327W. This 327W has 4 ports for my local network 
>>>>connections. I have no idea if this is a modem/router or a modem/hub 
>>>>or whatever.
>>>>
>>>>It set up fine and I did not have to filter my alarm system.
>>>>
>>>>The Verizon office (wherever that is) had to Sync me line and modem. 
>>>>It took 2 techie calls to convince them the filters were installed on 
>>>>my end. After that, they synced my line 6 hours later (1 AM) and 
>>>>followed that with a call to check on things at 8 AM.
> 
> 
>>>If the alarm system uses the same phone line, then it seems like a 
>>>no-brainer that you should filter it since:
>>>a) it's on the line and it's not a dsl modem
>>>b) you had any sort of problem at all
>>>c) actually, "a)" was enough already
> 
> 
>>a, b or c. Maybe, maybe not. I am not an alarm expert either.
>>I spoke with my alarm man and explained it to first Verizon
>>techie who said it need not be filtered. The second V techie
>>told me it had to be filtered. I explained it to her, she left
>>and talked to someone and came back and said it did not have to
>>be filtered.
> 
> 
>>As was 'splained to me, wire goes to alarm box, through a relay
>>and back to the phone junction box where the line comes in from
>>outside. I ran a line for the DSL modem diretly to the phone
>>juction box.
> 
> 
> Is there a possibility that the alarm circuit to the alarm company
> is dry copper?   That's the way older alarm systems were and that
> may explain why the confusion over filters.   Maybe Jay can weigh
> in on this.
> 
>

The alarm is an automatic dial-out system, not a monitored system. I am 
guessing the relay system is what makes it "non-filtered" in that the 
alarm wire with the relay open is the same as a jack with nothing 
plugged into it?

charles day