Yes, I see that on a lot of older homes. I don't have a proper answer to
give you, nor a good way to actually harden the line in that situation. My
only suggestion would be to reroute the cable into the house higher up at
the second floor, but then you have the added difficulty of going from the
upper floor to the basement inside the home.

Perhaps your best bet would be to consider one of the wireless backup
communication solutions...

RHC

"Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" wrote in message
...
"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