User's Manual

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7: Watcher™ Basics
• Launching Watcher
• The Watcher window
• Icons and indicators
on the main Watcher
window
• View options
(notebook PCs)
• Status Icons
• Power Options
• Frequency band and
network selection
Watcher is the program you use to manage and monitor your
AirCard connections. Watcher allows you to:
• Create an account profile. (This is explained under “The
SIM Card and Your Account” on page 13.)
• Determine signal strength, roaming status, GPRS/EDGE
availability, and other network connection parameters
• Monitor the status of the AirCard and GSM service
• Initiate data connections
• Make and receive phone calls
• Send and receive SMS messages
• Enable or disable SIM security that prevents others from
using your SIM card if it is lost or stolen
• Set options related to battery power consumption
• Set options related to notifications and the Watcher
window
Depending on what model of AirCard you are using and on
how it is configured, you may have access to these features:
• Outlook integration. This allows you to store, send, and
read SMS messages in Outlook so that you are managing
both e-mail and SMS messages from a single application,
(assuming you are using Outlook for e-mail).
• WiFi support. This allows you to manage and monitor a
WiFi device within Watcher.
Note: It takes up to 20 seconds
for Watcher to become fully
functional after launch.
If you set your account profile to autoconnect (see page 36),
you do not need to run Watcher when you use the AirCard,
but Watcher does provide useful status information.