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ADT has great sales reps, but when the techs come out, they bash the quality of the product and highly recommend going with a separate video company, which is the main reason i wanted a system to begin with. Comcast has definitely upped their game and has a good system and for the bundled price cant be beat. As far as customer service, hell who has good CS these days no one its not the 80's any longer!ATandT which owns direct TV now and Comcast are monopolies and get away with lack luster support, speak clearly with the stupid bot and be polite to the rep and it always seems to go pretty good. I've only had to call 2x per user confusion other than that its worked very well!Not too many complaints. Since we pay our home insurance a yr up front the hefty discount check of 252 didn't disappoint either. All seems well for now. Just moved to a Home after living in the condo for the past 10 years the first thing we did was to contract security service of course after after living in the condo for the past 10 years the first thing we did was to contract security service of course after soon. After seeing a Comcast offer which sounded great because I would pay just one bill, I had the system installed and paid a bit over $500 for additional sensors. Within a week the app did not work and I thought the problem was with my phone. 2 weeks later I receive a call from Comcast saying something was wrong with the system and to make a long story short after over 20 hours on the phone and 3 installations attempts, my account monitoring was cancelled for no apparent reason. I filed a complaint with the Florida division of agriculture and consumer, affairs and requested my initial investment to be reimbursed.

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You can monitor the system yourself, but at the price Ring is charging for professional monitoring—just $10 per month $100 per year if paid annually with no long term contract—it would be foolish not to sign up for it. That goes double for people who already have other Ring devices, because it includes video storage in the cloud for an unlimited number of Ring cameras. Ring’s sensors operate on battery power, the keypad and base station come with AC adapters, and the Z Wave range extender plugs directly into an AC outlet. All three of those components have battery backup, so the system will continue to operate in the event of a power outage. The base station connects to your home network via hardwired ethernet or Wi Fi. A Ring Protect subscription activates an LTE module in the base station that will keep the system connected to the internet if your broadband connection goes down. You can even run the keypad on battery power full time if you choose, since most homes don’t have AC outlets right next to doors. An LED will tell you when the battery needs to be charged. There is currently no support for controlling the system with voice commands, but it should come as no surprise that Ring is developing an Alexa skill. Once you can arm your security system using a voice command, you won’t want to do it any other way disarming it that way is whole other question. Harris was slightly more circumspect about supporting Google Assistant.