jm1
Aug 1st, 2007, 08:26 AM
I'm wondering if anyone's signed up with this new service. My ADT contract is up, and the Bell offering seems interesting:
https://www.bellhomemonitoring.ca/portal/en/PreSale.aspx
It looks interesting, in that there's a web interface and it's over a cellular network, so they can't cut your telephone line (the additional charge ADT wants for a cellular link is very high). You can even add video cameras to the web interface. Monthly self-monitoring is $20 and it's $25 if you want their call centre to monitor, so it's comparable to ADT and Chubb prices, but you get the niftier features.
I know there's The Monitoring Centre, etc. which is cheaper or I can negotiate with ADT or there are fancy X10 solutions available, and I would have some additional upfront hardware costs with Bell, but putting that aside, can anyone who has put this or looked into it in comment on the reliability, etc. of the Bell system?
For something that needs to be reliable, I don't want to end up being a beta tester or guinea pig for a something that Bell might have rushed to market.
https://www.bellhomemonitoring.ca/portal/en/PreSale.aspx
It looks interesting, in that there's a web interface and it's over a cellular network, so they can't cut your telephone line (the additional charge ADT wants for a cellular link is very high). You can even add video cameras to the web interface. Monthly self-monitoring is $20 and it's $25 if you want their call centre to monitor, so it's comparable to ADT and Chubb prices, but you get the niftier features.
I know there's The Monitoring Centre, etc. which is cheaper or I can negotiate with ADT or there are fancy X10 solutions available, and I would have some additional upfront hardware costs with Bell, but putting that aside, can anyone who has put this or looked into it in comment on the reliability, etc. of the Bell system?
For something that needs to be reliable, I don't want to end up being a beta tester or guinea pig for a something that Bell might have rushed to market.