RE: Pager/ notification system?

["Bill Paris" <bparis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

900MHz pagers (alphanumeric, E-mail capable) are notorious for their bad
reliability. I carried one of these at one time and I missed more pages than
I care to remember.

The only reliable pagers out there are the old style numeric-only that
operate at lower frequencies. The only time I missed a page using one of
those was because of a dead battery.

Bill Paris
Sorrento Cheese Co., Inc.
716-823-6262 x376



Lou,

>     Besides the problem of TCP/IP possibly being down that others have
> mentioned, I would think that the timeliness and reliability of a
> page delivered by e-mail might be a concern.  E-mail can take from a
> few minutes to a few hours, or even days, at times.

  Those 'reliable' pagers are why my Son was born with the assistance
of some Doctor neither my wife or I had ever seen before.  This,
despite the fact that her doctor was in the hospital, wearing his
pager and the hospital is in the middle of the downtown area within
blocks of the paging tower.  Turns out that Ameritech decided to do
some maintenance on the thing without telling anybody and shut it down
for the night.

  While I don't disagree that a pager is generally MUCH quicker than
Email and also more consistant if whatever you are dealing with is
critical, two way communications is a MUST. Police, Rescue, Ambulance,
Fire (except some volunteers) have two way radios with them at all
times.  Consider where you are on the 'importance' scale  (somewhere
from daily sales report to Chief of Police) and choose your
notification method accordingly.

 - Larry


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