"Joseph Meehan" writes:

R.H.Campbell wrote:
Depending upon where the inside hydro panel is located, it might be best
to
dig down about two feet underground and drill through the basement wall,
and
remount everything inside the house. Although this can cause some
inconvenience later when the telco has to visit to repair the local loop
from the GWI to the house, it's nothing compared to the "inconvenience" of
being broken into and having the monitoring non functional......

It is likely bet to check with your phone company first. However I
suggest rather just moving it all in side, that it would be better to leave
it all there. Bring the hot line inside as you suggest to a new box and run
a new wire underground to nowhere. That way someone would think they have
it and stop looking when in reality they just killed a dead line.

Not sure what underground has to do with it. The real problem in my
mind is not the location of the box but the fact that a clearly
exposed wire runs down the side of the house from the telephone cable
above to the place where the wire enters the basement (independent of
whether the network interface device is inside or outside). Does that
makes any sense?




R.H.Campbell
Home Security Metal Products
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
www.homemetal.com