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Andrea
Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 08:05 am:   

Any tips about Siemens M20 & TC35 series modems? Thanks in advance, Andrea
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 03:32 pm:   

I know we have customers using a variety of the different Siemens GSM modems.

My only tip is that on some systems, you'll get an error message that says "Error waiting for initialization response from modem" when you try to "test & add" the modem from the software.

We've noticed that this seems to occur on some systems when you configure NowSMS to interface with a mobile phone via a direct COM port reference (e.g., COM1: from the drop down list in the GSM modem configuration within NowSMS).

If this happens to you, you can generally get around the problem by configuring NowSMS to work through a modem driver.

Go into the Windows Control Panel, and select "Phone and Modem Options". Add a modem, and pick "Generic 9600 bps Modem" or "Standard 9600 bps Modem". Then use the diagnostics function in the modems area of the Control Panel, and "Query modem" to verify that the driver is configured correctly.

Then go back to NowSMS, and pick the named modem driver from the list instead of the direct COM port reference.

-bn