Can I use the Sierra Wireless Aircard 750 for sending and receiving...

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Shumie
Unregistered guest
Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 08:18 am:   

Does any one know if I can use the 'Sierra Wireless Aircard 750' for sending and receiving SMS and MMS?

If yes, is this card working fine by you?
If no, do you have an alternative?
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 1016
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 05:12 am:   

Shumie,

I use one in my laptop, and it works great.

The nice thing about the Sierra Wireless Aircard 750 is that it can do simultaneous SMS and GPRS.

Please note that if you are using a non-English version of Windows, you need an update for NowSMS v5.0. Specifically, you need an updated MMSWAP.DLL file, which is currently available from
http://www.nowsms.com/download/mmswap.zip.

Beyond this, here are my notes on configuring the Sierra Wireless Aircard 750.

Identify the version number of the Sierra Wireless software. This can be done from the Watcher startup screen, or from the Help/About option in Watcher.

If you are not running a v3.x release of the Aircard software, then I strongly suggest that you update. The update details are here:

http://www.sierrawireless.com/SupportDownload/SupportDownloadDocumentation/ac750 -choice.asp

Next, go into Tools/Options within the Watcher menu.

Under "Profiles", Add a profile for your network operator, if you have not already. Otherwise, edit the existing profile. Specify the GPRS APN and the user name and password associated with it. Specify "Auto Connect". Make sure that "Default Profile" is checked for this profile.

Exit Watcher. Remove the PC card. Wait a couple of minutes. Re-insert the PC card. Confirm that it automatically re-establishes a GPRS connection.

Back in Watcher, go to Tools/Options, and go to the "Display" menu. Uncheck "Auto-launch Watcher". I recommend this, as otherwise the SMS application built into Watcher can sometimes receive SMS messages before NowSMS does, which can present problems.

Exit Watcher.

Remove the card. Wait a few minutes. Re-insert the card.

After a couple of minutes, the card should get a GPRS connection, and you should see an icon on the task bar that indicates this.

Now back to the "MMS Receive Settings" in NowSMS.

Here you'll need to set the MMS settings appropriate for your operator. These are the same settings that would be configured into the MMS client on a mobile phone. Some settings for common operators are documented at this thread:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/491.html

In the network connection to be used, select "Network: GPRS Aircard". (This is telling us to use the network driver instead of a modem driver.)

Set "Modem used" to "None" (since we are not using the modem driver in this case).

The "GPRS APN" and login/password fields will be grayed out, since they are set by the network driver and outside the control of NowSMS in this configuration. (The earlier configuration from Watcher applies.)

Shumie
Unregistered guest
Posted on Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 07:21 pm:   

thx,

I hope I can count on your support and knowledge of this product working with NowSMS.
If I'm having some problems using this product.