[117743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Tue Sep 29 21:22:47 2009
To: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:22:03 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0909220929w7b4ea46bvcd21f10efc897122@mail.gmail.com>
(William Herrin's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:29:13 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com> writes:
> The Multitech Multimodem GPRS model MTCBA-G-EN-F4 has an ethernet
> port. Add a SIM card from your favorite wireless carrier and you can
> send and receive SMS messages via "AT" commands over a TCP socket.
> Problem is, it seizes up or otherwise founders every few weeks and has
> to be power cycled.
>
> Has anyone heard of other products with a good reliability record?
Sorry to be late to add to the hate, but the MacOSX drivers for the
USB flavor (MTCBA-G-U-F4) have issues. Finally got it running on a
standalone Intel mini that we use just for text messages. :-P
-r
