AFT Vodafone support fixed

donutface

I started a new thread because it was in a range of different threads where the problem was reported. Vodafone support is now officially fixed. What happened was my friend ymans dedicated servers internet connection was too fast. Vodafone expects delays else it errors, so I had some code in there to put in pauses before the next request, on my local machine it worked but on the dedicated server it didnt. I changed the pause from 1500 miliseconds to 2000 miliseconds and it works now (1.5 seconds to 2 seconds)

Code has also been added so that if it doesnt send properly, it will error and not just return the ammount of messages remaining.

dal

Brilliant news, thanks Donutface for all the hard work.

dave oc

Hey my messages are costing 2c a text on vodafone, is this the same for everyone on vf?

red_fox

Great news

On a side note have you been able to examine if meteor would accept up to 306 characters as a text message, I believe the site stops at 160 but that they have code in place that allows 306 to be sent at once, if the site is bypassed?

My messages also cost 2c on Vodafone, they have a minimun connection fee but if you were to send longer messages then it would still come in under the 2c.

Excellent work though

Sam Vimes

red_fox wrote:

On a side note have you been able to examine if meteor would accept up to 306 characters as a text message, I believe the site stops at 160 but that they have code in place that allows 306 to be sent at once, if the site is bypassed?

yes it will. i don't know if its been implemented in AFT though

dal

red_fox wrote:

Great news

On a side note have you been able to examine if meteor would accept up to 306 characters as a text message, I believe the site stops at 160 but that they have code in place that allows 306 to be sent at once, if the site is bypassed?

My messages also cost 2c on Vodafone, they have a minimun connection fee but if you were to send longer messages then it would still come in under the 2c.

Excellent work though

Hi Redfox. You can actually send messages longer than 160 characters (since AFT 1.2), there is an option to increase the message length in the main message screen. This will, as you suggest, make it cheaper the more you send.

red_fox

I think on meteor it'll accept up to 306 characters and only charge a single webtext, or even if it was two, it sends the message as one long message rather than splitting. Commander Vimes mentioned it somewhere else before but if the server for meteor defined a single message length as 306 as opposed to 160 (and AFT reflected this) then it would improve the service for meteor users!

Just a thought that it's a simple thing to change but a nice improvement, although if meteor were to ever change their webtext system to limit it to 160 then it would fail!