On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 13:08 -0700, Nicolas Pottier wrote: > Thanks Kenny, > > It looks like the Huawei E160G is available pretty cheap on eBay as well.
Huawei E620 works well. I am a newbie but I managed to make it work. Not sure of the price though > > One question on the Modem vs Phone approach. In my head it seems like > the phone would be more reliable as it would be receiving SMS's on it's > own regardless of what the attached PC is doing. The PC would then > retrieve them from the modem. This seems like it could lead to less > dropped messages. > Not really. When I was struggling to have my modem work, kannel wasn't receiving sms, but i could retrieve them all when I use a phone with the same simcards -> message are not lost. > Is my understanding correct here? Or do the modems and phones work more > similarly than I am giving them credit for? yeah, almost similar (my observation) > Will the modems buffer > incoming messages on their own as well as long as they are powered? Yes. -- Frank _________________ University Computing Centre - 'Professionalism, Customer Care and Technological foresight'
