Unplug that modem

Thanks napstress. Apparently, there are wireless cell phone modems for CPAP as well as wired modems.

Respironics lists a "wired flow modem" and a "wireless flow modem."

If you've got the wireless one, there's no extra lightning problems with having it there.

Oh, and it had a barcode on the inside with the word "Encore" beneath it.

The ResMed one sends data back to their servers, where the DME and potentially your doctor can see the same reports you get in the ResMed desktop software, but via the web. Mine is a wireless modem on the S9 Elite.

I had a cool experience today with (what I now know for sure is) the modem. I called Apria to see if they had received my sleep dr's prescription for changing the pressure levels. I expected to have to run out to Apria to exchange my SD card for a new one. But the RT simply had me press a button on the modem at home and changed the levels from the computer at his office. Took less than a minute from when he started describing what I should do on my end to when it was completed.

How often do your modem's call in? Mine is next to a clock radio and seems to call in every couple of hours. A lot more frequently than I would have anticipated.

My DME said that the Resmed wireless modem which plugs into the back of the machine only transmits compliance data, nothing else. They only can get the detailed data off of the data card which I would have to bring in.

Not sure if it differs by machine, but I have PR S1 and my DME has viewed detailed incidents data while we discussed it.

goldfinch wrote:My DME said that the Resmed wireless modem which plugs into the back of the machine only transmits compliance data, nothing else. They only can get the detailed data off of the data card which I would have to bring in.

Things I don't have:

A modem.
A wired phone.
An irrational fear of lightning, power spikes or blue painter's tape.

Good point, I should have specified that mine is a wireless modem...thus when it "calls home" I hear the interference on the clock radio next to it.

LinkC wrote:Things I don't have:

A modem.
A wired phone.
An irrational fear of lightning, power spikes or blue painter's tape.

I unplugged the modem about 3 weeks ago. No one has called me to complain...

"This danger is small and the number of such strikes relatively low. Even so, as thunderstorms approach, some people opt to unplug costly electrical appliances from power outlets (lightning strikes to power lines can send catastrophic discharge into one's TV) as well as uncouple phone lines from computers and modems."

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/phone.asp

From my research, newer CPAP modems are in the circuit board, deep inside the unit. They are moderately complicated to disconnect without some electronics / circuit board skills. Then here are some that have modem modules that can be easily removed, usually in plain site or inside an access panel on the unit. Some older CPAP units are 'wired' and plugged into a wall phone-jack. You can use search engines to finds some of these but it would be nice if some of our technical wizards in the forum could post step-by-steps, My knowledge is only based from what I could find on the web.

This is an 8 year old post/topic.

Must have really done a lot of research, maybe even read the post before posting. Jim

Another victim of not making old posts READ ONLY!

I'll bet if you go back in the dead post far enough you can see the Hand Cranked XPAPs, they are carved from Wood!

TXbedhead wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:46 am

From my research, newer CPAP modems are in the circuit board, deep inside the unit. They are moderately complicated to disconnect without some electronics / circuit board skills.

Your "research" is wrong.

TXbedhead wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:46 am

Some older CPAP units are 'wired' and plugged into a wall phone-jack.

Never heard of such a thing, not saying it doesn't exist, but... not in the last 10 years, and before that, no CPAP 'phone home'.

TXbedhead wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:46 am

My knowledge is only based from what I could find on the web.

You shouldn't believe everything you read 'on the web'.