Re: sms messaging without a net?

[Brett <bretton () gmail com>]

Any reason the monitor can't be external, then send an SMS via email
directly to the cell phone provider, rather than an alias on the down
network?

If it's a private network, it could do a web request every minute to a
monitor.  If it hasn't received a request in two minutes, send the
page directly to the SMS provider.


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 02:17:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Hollis <goemon () anime net> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
> connection?
>
> Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly
> runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins
> know their net has gone down. :-P
>
> AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
>
> The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS
> messaging capability.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> -Dan