I'm a novice and after toying with some basic ideas on how to talk to a modem with VB.net, I think there may be much more to it than I realize. (?)

I know my modem is fine, I can use hyperterminal to call out on it with no problem.

So, how involved is it to talk to a modem?

My initial thinking was that I could simply talk to it via a serial port using AT commands sent and rcvd as a string. (?)


My modem is set up with COM2 9600 8n1.

I've setup a serial port with the same parameters in my code.

Now what?

* Forget about it (there's a lot more to it than this....TAPI?)
* Send an AT command via serialport.write (" ") to initialize the modem and listen for a dial tone.

And, for step one, I would like to accomplish just that.....assuming I'm good to go, what is that AT command?

THANKS.