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clicked upon. You can also renumber the COM ports for all modems starting at the item right-clicked

upon. These settings will not be saved until you click the Save button.

In order to sweep, PhoneSweep requires at least one modem to be powered on and connected to the

computer, and the correct COM port must be assigned for each modem on the Modems sub-tab before

PhoneSweep can detect the modem.

4.5.1 Windows and your modem

PhoneSweep bypasses the Windows TAPI (Telephone API) and communicates directly with the modems.

For this reason, PhoneSweep does not require that you install the Windows modem drivers supplied by

the vendor. Doing so won't interfere with PhoneSweep and may be required to use the modems with other

applications when not sweeping. For this reason, the Modems sub-tab does not automatically detect

modems until you configure the Modem-to-COM port mapping using the Modems sub-tab. (See

below for further instructions.)

To determine which COM ports your modems are connected to, run checkmodems.exe. When using

multi-port cards, such as SeaLevel cards on PCs and Quatech cards on laptops, you will find the COM

ports run from COM 5 to COM 8 for 4 ports, and from COM 5 to COM12 for 8 ports.

4.5.2 Configuring the Modems sub-tab

To change the value of any white field on the Modems sub-tab, click on the down arrow to the right each

field and a pull-down menu will appear.

First, enable the modems to be used in the sweep. Click in the Use box located to the left of each

modem, or Click the Select All Modems button on the lower right hand corner of the Modems sub-tab.

The Use box will display a check mark when a particular modem is enabled. As noted above, the

Modems sub-tab displays only the number of modems licensed for your use. If you see a discrepancy in

the number of licensed modems you expect to see, please contact Sandstorm Enterprises.

Then set the COM Port column to the correct value. If you do not know which COM ports your

modems are connected to, you can use the checkmodems.exe. Once you know which COM ports your

modems are connected to, set the COM: Port column to the correct value by single clicking on a Port

column entry and choosing the correct value from the pull-down menu. The COM port will default to the

same value as the modem number, but this is not required. Each modem must be on a different COM port.

If two modems are set to the same COM port, PhoneSweep will not begin sweeping, even if one of them

is not currently selected.

Specify whether Modem Speakers are turned on or off. Click on the pull down menu under the

speaker heading for each modem to choose among three speaker options:

• Always Off: This modem will dial silently.

• On During Dialing: You will hear the modem dialing and any response from the remote system

until a carrier has been established. After the connection has been established, the modem speaker

will be disabled for the remainder of the call.

• Always On: Your modem speaker(s) will be on throughout the scan. We do not recommend this

mode for normal use, as the noise can be quite irritating, but it can be useful in checking problem

phone numbers. (Default setting)