I am planning to get a pager alarm for my car but having a hard time deciding.. I tried the search engine and have seen good remarks towards both alarms and the only big difference is that the compustar has a 1mi radius when the viper only has 1/4 mile. but who really needs it to be that far... Please give me your expert advice.thanks

 

Pager alarms are all but useless. If you're close enough for the pager to work when you're in buildings (such as the mall), you can hear the car alarm itself go off...if you're much farther away, there's no point in knowing your alarm went off because everything worth having is stolen already anyway.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MacGyver
[B]Pager alarms are all but useless.

 

i have the viper 790vx or whatever pager alarm i like it but sometimes i accidentally push the buttons

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ruexp67
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Wow, you can hear your alarm from inside the MALL!?!?!?

 

i would agree that the pager is pretty useless but a lot of people are always like whoa those are your keys cool thats about all you get out of it and thats not worth it

 

I don't think that the pager will work in the mall. The distance quotes are generally for an unobstructed range. Once you add in the walls (and especially office building and mall walls which tend to have metal structure) the distance will decrease alot.

 

Compustar is a good little device. I have just the 2WFMWS (not even the furthest-range version.

I did a distance test indoors. I parked my car in the parkade at one end of a Sears store, and then I started walking towards the other end (everyone keep in mind that most Sears stores are almost the same size, so you know approximately what I'm talking about). My remote could query the car as far as the other end of the Sears store, all the way through.

So to say a pager alarm is useless isn't entirely true.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by koala
[B]Compustar is a good little device. I have just the 2WFMWS (not even the furthest-range version.

I did a distance test indoors. I parked my car in the parkade at one end of a Sears store, and then I started walking towards the other end

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by PokS2k
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Have you tried it in an area like an office building or mall with many more walls in between you and the car?