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| Thread ID: 125885 | 2012-07-25 00:36:00 | adsl socket plus medical alarm | arjay (1202) | Press F1 |
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| 1290674 | 2012-07-25 00:36:00 | The Retirement Village that I live in wants $280 to fit an adsl socket that is required to make it compatible with the Medical Alarm. I believe that Telecom will do it for $199 but do not know if you have to use their plan. Who do I contact to get an adsl socket fitted without signing up for a plan and what should it cost? Apparantly a splitter is needed to be fitted before the Medical Alarm. | arjay (1202) | ||
| 1290675 | 2012-07-25 02:41:00 | Your ISP will arrange a splitter install for your broadband so you may use the alarm. Just contact them and ask for it., |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1290676 | 2012-07-25 06:39:00 | If it's just a plug in medical alarm,you don't need a splitter,justan inline filter | Peter Coleman (597) | ||
| 1290677 | 2012-07-25 08:48:00 | I install medical alarms. They don't need ADSL, they just work from an analogue phone line. Do you have a phone line? Unless it's a new model that I haven't seen before. Which company is it with (the medical alarm), because I can probably find out what would be being installed and what is needed. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1290678 | 2012-07-25 23:04:00 | Plug in filters are unreliable and prone to failure, if an alarm is needed I'd feel safer with splitter myself. Incidentally they are both filters and do the same thing, the "splitter" is just a better quality filter fitted where the phoneline demarcation is to seperate the phone and ADSL service so they each get dedicated jackpoints and the inline filters are cheaper units that do it at each jackpoint instead. I assume you have broadband already or as mentioned none of this is required. Any Jackpoint a normal phone can work from should also work for an alarm system, after all they just dial a phone number automatically. The price does seem expensive, most houses with reasonable wiring could be done in under an hour by a competent installer (or even by a slightly competent amateur like myself). |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1290679 | 2012-07-26 03:05:00 | I install medical alarms. They don't need ADSL, they just work from an analogue phone line. Do you have a phone line? . Yes. They do. Which is generally why you need a splitter to separate these things and the ADSL. |
pctek (84) | ||
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