Monthly Archives: January 2015
The Best ADT Home Security Plan
Before I moved into my new house, I knew that I wanted to have a security system installed. Even though the real estate agent assured me that we were living in a very safe suburb of Dallas, I knew that there is no place immune from crime. I did a search for Dallas ADT so I could get more information about the company I kept hearing good things about, and I was able to get better informed so I could make the right choice on what I wanted. I knew that I was going to get ADT, but I was not sure which package I was going to get.
They have several different ones, ranging from the Essentials all the way up to Premium Protection. The nice thing about the five different packages that they have is that the price is not that different. Because of that, it just made sense for me to go with the Premium Protection plan that has the ADT Pulse. I got all of the basics that the other plans receive, such as the keypad and fobs, the monitoring, and yard signs and window decal to let others know that my house has an ADT security system.
I did get other things though that the other plans do not have, including the ability to arm or disarm the system remotely and having access to it through either an Internet connection from anywhere or from my own cell phone. I also get notified through email or texts, and I can even get an event history too. To pay just a bit more for these valuable extras made sense to me, and I am glad that I went with their best package. It is so much more liberating, having the freedom to change my system settings anywhere I am.
Thinking About Building a Lake House
I need to find the answers to a couple of questions before I proceed, but I have been looking at this piece of lake front property and thinking about how practical it would be to build a little house there. Of course it is about an hour away from where I live now and it is about forty five minutes away from the plant where I am one of the shop foremen. I need to figure out the details of the local area's high speed internet availability. I could probably do well enough with no internet for the weekend, but that is not going to fly for the rest of the family. My wife has a job where they have a total fit if you go half an hour with no internet connecting you to the home office. The same thing is true of cell phone service. I already know that is not very good here. I see cell phone towers, but none of them are very useful for the cell phone provider that we have.
I figure that I can get around that stuff by putting in a mobile hot spot of my own. At least what I understand about it that should be able to fix the problem. The cell phone company claims that I should be able to get a signal. We drive around with the passenger looking at the strength of the signal on one or two phones. It seems as though you can pick up a faint signal here and there, a strong one in a couple of places. It is very odd to me, but then I do not know where the tower is that we are using and so I might be going in and out of the line of sight of it.
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