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Compass 597 USB modem - User Guide

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• 1XsupportsInternetconnectionswithdataratesupto

153 Kbps.Actualspeeddependsonthenetworkcondi‐

tions.

Oncetheconnectionisestablished,youcanopenyourbrowser

andconnecttoanywebsitethatisaccessiblethroughthe

Internet,oraccessotherInternetservices(suchase‐mail).

The

connectionis“active”whendatatransmissionis

occurring.Ifdatatransmissionstopsforaperiodoftime

(determinedbythenetwork),theconnectionbecomes

dormant.

• Circuitswitched(dial‐up)data,usingtheearlierCDMA

IS‐95specification,supportsdataconnectionstoanydial‐

inserviceatratesupto14.4 Kbps.

• QNC (QuickNetConnect)providesasimplifiedwayto

dialintoanInternetconnection(usingcircuitswitched

data)where3G(1xEV‐DOor1X)high‐speedpacket

serviceisnotavailable.

• SMS (ShortMessageService)allowsyoutosendand

receiveshorttextmessagesusingthemodem(Windows

only).

Additional Compass USB modem

features

BeyondthefeaturesoftheCDMAnetwork,themodem

providesadditionalsoftwarefeatures:

• PINsecuritycodetoprotectyourmodemandaccount

fromunauthorizeduse.

• AwizardtoassistwithactivatingyourCDMAaccount.

• SoundoptionstocustomizeringtonesforSMSmessages

(Windowsonly).

• ACallLogtotrackoutgoingcalls

anddeterminethe

amountofdatatransferred(Windowsonly).

ThemodemhasamicroSD™slotthatcanbeused,witha

microSDcard(soldseparately),forfiletransferorstorage.For

moreinformation,see“UsingamicroSDcard”onpage 24.

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