Once you have your USB modem (with a SIM card inside) installed, it will show up in your computer as using a COM port. To find this information, go to the Control Panel, click “Hardware and Sound” then select “Device Manager” as shown by these images:

As the last image shows, our modem is using COM port 7. Now open the Voicent Gateway, click “Setup” select “Options” then go to the SMS tab.

As the images above show, select “Use the following” then click “Add” to bring up the window on the right. Select the COM port we found earlier and then restart the Gateway. Your modem is now connected and ready to use for SMS broadcasting.

The Voicent Gateway has a setting that will auto-detect the COM port being used by your USB modem for BroadcastBySMS. To find this setting, you will need to open up the Voicent Gateway, go to “Options” then go to the SMS tab. Select “Auto detect” and then restart the Gateway. If you see an SMS line started then your modem is connected to the Gateway.