Does your system recover if the power fails and comes back or do you have UPS? I have been reading reviews of the USB modem Lowes sells and apparently on a power fail the system has to be manually reset.
Kevin thanks for sharing, a lot of my boating friends are looking for an alarm system and one that uses ready available non marine components that save us boat bucks is great. You said that the cell modem can provide the internet connection, as well as the wired ethernet port. My question is can the system use the dock wireless internet at the dock and the cell when away, to save on data usage. When checking on another Z wave system it would not work with the Verizon Hotspot for some reason?
The trick here is to separate the network and the alarm functionality.
I wuld buy a router that can use wifi as the uplink port, and fall back to cellular if the wifi is not available.
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Kevin...I think they are confusing the built in router/modem that the verizon hot spot has with the need for a separate stand alone router that has the ability to connect via a WIFI or cellularly through the verizon hotspot to the internet.