I'm still trying to figure the modem out and yes my aim is to have the signal strength while connected and fortunately I have another "test" modem to play with.
When the modem is offline, you can use AT or CG and CR commands, but the moment you tell it to connect ATD*99# and it connects, the stuff streams in at such a rate of knots that any display program you are using (hyperterminal) is miles too slow to display the stuff.
So I made an assembler routine and dumped the stuff to memory then saved it to the hard drive and busy figuring all this stuff out atm.
Now I figured once the modem is connected, the normal AT etc commands dont work.
What I want to do now is make a complete logon program and just before I connect, switch it to a Leased Line Modem using +++ Escape commands if it allows me, and hopefully I have some joy here [

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Some usefull stuff:
ATI4 = IPWireless modem
ATI11 = UE Software Built: Aug 12 2003 19:37:48
Quering the commands AT&V gives:
ACTIVE PROFILE:
E0 Q0 V1 X4 &C1 &D2 &S0 &Y0
S00:000 S01:000 S02:043 S03:013 S04:010 S05:008 S07:050 S08:002
S09:006 S10:014 S12:050 S14:136 S21:052 S22:069 S25:005 S27:002
S36:000 S37:000 S38:020 S39:003 S61:000 S95:000
STORED PROFILE 0:
E1 Q0 V1 X4 &C1 &D2 &S0
S00:000 S01:000 S02:043 S03:013 S04:010 S05:008 S07:050 S08:002
S09:006 S10:014 S12:050 S14:138 S21:052 S22:069 S25:005 S27:002
S36:000 S37:000 S38:020 S39:003 S61:000 S95:000
STORED PROFILE 1:
E1 Q0 V1 X4 &C1 &D2 &S0
S00:000 S01:000 S02:043 S03:013 S04:010 S05:008 S07:050 S08:002
S09:006 S10:014 S12:050 S14:138 S21:052 S22:069 S25:005 S27:002
S36:000 S37:000 S38:020 S39:003 S61:000 S95:000
Whatever you do dont ever send a AT&C1 - bye bye modem [V]