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| Alexander Sorokin New member Username: Syrnick Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2007 |
I'm trying to setup reliable and fast delivery of MMS to customer's cell phone (US). I noticed that NowSMS has very long delay before the message is actually sent. It seems to me that it established the GPRS connection every time I send the message. Attempt to open GPRS connection separately failed, because NowSMS wanted the modem (currently just a cell phone) for sending SMS. Questions: (1) Is it true that NowSMS established connection every time and how that can be fixed? (2) Is there any way not to provide an SMS modem? (3) What delivery time one could expect for an MMS? Currently we're using MM1. Will other options be significantly faster? Thanks a lot. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7395 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi, 1.) If the modem is in the "SMSC" list, then yes, this is true. (Unless your modem has a way of allowing both SMS and data access at the same time ... but I have only seen that capability on Sierra Wireless PC card modems.) The issue is that sending/receiving SMS requires the use of AT command mode on the modem ... and MMS requires an active data connection. If you're not worried about sending SMS, then you could leave the "SMSC" list blank. The NowSMS configuration program will complain about this ... but despite the warning, it will still work. Alternatively, to get around the warning, define an HTTP SMSC connection pointing to a conventional web site. If NowSMS happens to have an SMS to send, it will make an HTTP request of the web site you configure ... which basically will just be ignored by a conventional web site. If the modem is not in the "SMSC" list, then NowSMS will keep the data connection open between MMS message activity. 2.) Try the work-arounds described above. 3.) It depends on your provider. The delivery time should be similar to what you experience if you sent an MMS message from a mobile phone to another mobile phone (as NowSMS is performing the same actions as the MMS client on a mobile phone). If you are using a modem, you have to use MM1. That is the protocol that an MMS client on a mobile phone uses, and the modem looks like a mobile phone to the network ... so that is your only effective protocol option for that configuration. What is the size of the data that you are sending? That can also be a factor. -bn | |||
| Alexander Sorokin New member Username: Syrnick Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2007 |
It helped somewhat. I get fewer messages now: 18:03:26:456 [11] ThreadProcessVASPQ: recipArray count = 1 18:03:26:466 [11] ThreadProcessVASPQ: Before WSPRasDial - Modem: Sony Ericsson T61z Modem #3 18:03:28:379 [11] ThreadProcessVASPQ: After WSPRasDial - OK They are still a little puzzling - there shouldn't be RAS dial event if the network is kept. But it is true that "Before WSPRasHangUp", "After WSPRasHangUp", "Before ModemRelease","After ModemRelease" disappeared. The message size is 3-7K. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7403 Registered: 10-2002 |
It's likely that the approximate 2 second delay that you are seeing there is a connection to the WAP gateway. It's a bit of a misnomer that the debug information refers to this as "WSPRasDial", as we also setup that IP connectivity at this stage. If your operator has an option to use HTTP/WAP2 (most do, as many newer phones don't support WSP/WAP), then you may see better performance changing the "WAP Gateway IP Address" setting to use the HTTP/WAP2 proxy instead. To do this, use the format http://ip.address:port to specify the proxy address. The "http://" prefix tells us that it is an HTTP/WAP2 proxy. -bn | |||
| SMSCOMM New member Username: Smstext Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2007 |
I updated to NOWSMS 2007. but is has become very very slow in sending messages. Why is this | |||
| Rhea New member Username: Rhea Post Number: 44 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hi, I have the same problem, i upgraded from 2006 to 2007 while we had a service running and two things dropped dramatically: - The Queue Creation Speed - SMS Sending with large Window Size & Multiple Connections Before that the service was running just fine. Is there a fix for these issues? | |||
