Alternative to Vodafone.ie (on-line texting)

daveg

Anyone who uses Vodafone.ie for sending texts on-line will know that at the best of times it is as slow as Xmas. Does anyone know of any other websites that provide on-line text utility?

RobertFoster

IIRC, ICQ allows you to text from your PC - it wont be your mobile number it arrives from though...

daveg

RobertFoster wrote:

IIRC, ICQ allows you to text from your PC - it wont be your mobile number it arrives from though...

Thanks Robert but ICQ is blocked from work. Any others?

BuffyBot

Thanks Robert but ICQ is blocked from work. Any others?

Is the web version blocked as well? It supports texting.

Citizen_Erased

Have you tried googling it. You get alot if you search for a differant topic like "funny sms messeges" and there might be one on that site - better than directly searching for it but few will send to Ireland.

daveg

BuffyBot wrote:

Is the web version blocked as well? It supports texting.

Web version is not blocked for me however when I sent a test text message I get "The SMS message could not be sent. An error had occured, please try again"

Under select country = Ireland
Network # (area code) = 087
Cell phone number = phone number.

What am I doing wrong?

Spunog UIE

I haven't used ICQ, but have you tried using just 87 instead of 087, they probally use the international code from the country selection so it would be 35387... mobile number. :eek:

daveg

Gideon wrote:

I haven't used ICQ, but have you tried using just 87 instead of 087, they probally use the international code from the country selection so it would be 35387... mobile number. :eek:

Nope didn't work I'm afriad. ICQ web sms --> http://web.icq.com/sms/login

Suaimhneach

I don't find Vodafone to be that slow at all. Quite handy actually!

BaZmO*

Jesjes wrote:

I don't find Vodafone to be that slow at all. Quite handy actually!

Yeah same here.
It's not slow at all, if anything it's quite fast tbh!

Mr E

Sending texts is very quick (once logged in).
Its the actual site that is very slow.....

Suaimhneach

I just saved the log in page on my favorites, which cuts out the majority of the hassle.

bombidol

www.11850.ie
or www.11850.net cant remember which

aphex™

If you use a proxy, i'm sure vodafone.ie will be faster for you.

The ICQ problem- under the "your number, try leaving out the 0 (zero) at the start if your number and the number you're sending to. Numbers have to be sent like +35387....

Also try iol.ie for sms's. The link is on the left.

byte

Webmonkey made a wee app that allows you to use your Vodafone SMS without needing to log into Vodafone site. It's here and he offered it as a zip too, if you prefer to upload to your own server. Mentioned in Mobiles forum

Flukey

Sometime there are problems getting into the Vodafone site at all.

embee

daveg wrote:

Anyone who uses Vodafone.ie for sending texts on-line will know that at the best of times it is as slow as Xmas.

Christmas goes by way too fast

RobertFoster

bombidol wrote:

www.11850.ie

lol, anyone tried that site in firefox?
:rolleyes:

byte

Yeah, it's a disaster! Vodafone Mail doesn't work too well with Firefox either. The pop up mail box doesn't work.

irlirishkev

If you're a VHI member, you can send text messages to any mobile.
It doesn't come from your number however and if someone replies directly, you don't receive it. Bit crap that way, and a simple bit of programming would remedy it.. ah well..

Kevin.

Ciaran500

Did anyone have the problem where you had to sign up for free credit everytime you wanted to logon, even though I'm on contract. :rolleyes: