Which cable company/security (Rock Hill, Lancaster: house, school, living in)

[misfit]

Is better in your opinion?

Time Warner or Comporium? (sp?)

I can use either or....

Also, who would you recommend to handle a home security system?? what is the monthly cost??

TIA

[nothanks23]

CPI should service your area. They have a real time monitoring which allows them to come over an intercom to communicate with you. Also you have the option of getting cellular backup should your phone line go down in event of an emergency. Comporium was in the news recently for not responding to a call for a school breakin until later. They said an email was sent showing the alarm was tripped.

Burglar Alarm Fails To Sound, Thieves Get Away With Rock Hill School’s Equipment - Charlotte News Story - WSOC Charlotte


Also Just hope your 911 service works..

Glitch Keeps Lancaster County Residents From Calling 911 - Charlotte News Story - WSOC Charlotte

[MilesBFree]

In my opinion, avoid CPI at all costs. They wired our house, and screwed it up royally. To rectify the problems, one of their clowns, I mean technicians, suggested that they could have a waterproof box built outdoors in which our satellite receiver would be housed. That is a $700 piece of electronics with DVR... Wires were ran to the wrong parts of the house, some terminated outdoors (such as the ones for the video cabling above), etc.

They refused to fix the problems, so I ended up doing it myself. I re-ran almost all of the coax and Cat5 cabling. This required a LOT of drywall work to cover up all of the holes.

I suppose it is possible that once someone competent runs the wires, that CPI might be qualified to monitor security service, but I personally did not bet on that and went with Brinks.

[nothanks23]

Originally Posted by MilesBFree

In my opinion, avoid CPI at all costs. They wired our house, and screwed it up royally. To rectify the problems, one of their clowns, I mean technicians, suggested that they could have a waterproof box built outdoors in which our satellite receiver would be housed. That is a $700 piece of electronics with DVR... Wires were ran to the wrong parts of the house, some terminated outdoors (such as the ones for the video cabling above), etc.

They refused to fix the problems, so I ended up doing it myself. I re-ran almost all of the coax and Cat5 cabling. This required a LOT of drywall work to cover up all of the holes.

I suppose it is possible that once someone competent runs the wires, that CPI might be qualified to monitor security service, but I personally did not bet on that and went with Brinks.

Most of the times companies will sub contract which in the underlying paperwork are actually the people under the orginal builder. I am just curious if they acutally worked for CPI. Also if you have issues the rentention department is the best place to contact with any company especially CPI.

The big thing for me with CPI was the 2 way security and wireless backup system which costs an arm and leg with any other company. Just a note about the Cat5 its easier to use wireless . I wired my old roomates house which in my opinon if you want wires done you should do them yourself because you tend to hold a higher standard since its your home too. hehe.

My ex-father-in-law worked for brinks and told me things I could have lived without my who life knowing. However thats just my own experience. To each his own.

[MilesBFree]

The clowns that wired our house showed up in a CPI van and had CPI uniforms on. Even if they were subs to CPI, which I doubt, CPI should have been responsible for their subs, managed them properly, and had the integrity to fix the problems.

The house was a disaster area for weeks while I sorted their mess out. Drywall ripped out, dust every where, drywall refinishing, dust everywhere, furnace duct cleaning, etc. They cost me a fortune not to mention the aggravation of living in a house that had to go through that to right the wrong.

I can't say this strongly enough: I! Hate! C! P! I!

Wireless is indeed easier, but much slower and less secure. Although the speed issue isn't that big of a deal in terms of Internet connectivity - if Comporium limits you to 1 - 5 Mbps, and WiFi G is around 54 Mbps, you know where the bottleneck is...

But in backing up my laptop to the home server, it is an issue. 54 Mbps does not compare to 10 Gbps (10,240 Mbps). The 240 Mbps at the end of 10 Gbps can almost be considered rounding error, and it is still almost 4 times as much as wireless.