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Alternatives to TAP for Outage Alerts?

Posted by Cliff on from the early-warning-systems dept.

anton[1452] asks: "AT&T Wireless has discontinued TAP dialup access to text messaging. I have used this for years to send alerts in the event of network outages. The alternatives they offer are not free and worse, require network connections - making them useless for my needs. Does anyone have a better way to do this without resorting to carrying a separate pager?"

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  1. Go completely analog by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use a voice modem and call the person's cell phone.

    "Help! Help! The power went out!"

    "Help! Help! Someone is stealing the router!"

    Hopefully, your techs won't think it's Stephen Hawking who needs assistance...