On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:06:38PM +0100, Lars-Hendrik Schneider wrote: > Hello, > > I want to send personalized SMS to a huge number of different recipients (so > one message for each number) using a Siemens TC35 modem. Therefore I > currently > make http-requests (using the http-interface) like this from a shell script: > http://smsbox.host.name:13013/cgi-bin/sendsms?username=foo&password=bar&to=0123456&text=Hello+world > (taken from the user's guide), replacing the "to=" and > "text="-values everytime. > > The question: Is it necessary to set a sleep between each request or will the > modem slow down the throughput automatically? Normally the request is waiting > for the "Accepted for delivery" before continuing - is this enough to make > sure, that the modem is not overloaded? Or is there another way to deliver > the > SMS through the GSM modem making sure that the SMS are accepted by the GSM > network provider? kannel will do queueing for you. your performance/throughput may vary from several seconds for a message up to more than a minute, depending on your provider. btw, i've found the tc35 behaving rather nasty compared to simple nokia mobiles or wavecoms.
> > Greetz and thanks, > > Lars-Hendrik >
