- G'day, mates.
I wanna share with you
a post from our private Facebook group
and this post is from Bert.
G'day, Bert.
Thanks for your contribution buddy.
I really appreciate it.
Yeah, Bert's a man of few words,
but I do like his style.
He writes, "3G networks are shutting down in 2022.
All three major cell phone carriers
are retiring their 3G networks
to make room for faster 5G speeds."
And that was it.
That's all he wrote, left it there,
a very cryptic post from Bert.
But as soon as I saw it, it grabbed my attention.
Turning off the 3G network doesn't sound like a big deal,
but it could potentially impact
a very large amount of ResMed AirSense 10 users
and I'll explain why, so many of you will already know
that inside the AirSense 10,
you have this component.
It's a cellular modem.
And the cellular modem is responsible
for sending and receiving data
between the myAir app,
but also ResMed's AirView,
their cloud-based patient management platform,
where they can remotely monitor your therapy,
but also make changes to your settings if they need to.
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Anyway, where was I?
They really screwed up my train of thought.
Now, the AirSense 10 has been manufactured for a long time.
It's quite an old machine.
They first started producing it in 2014,
so seven years ago,
and when they first started making it,
4G was only just sort of being rolled out.
So they were utilizing 2G and also 3G using CDMA.
So a lot of the older ResMed devices
have 2G and 3G modems in them. 2G is already gone.
So they're relying on a 3G network
and nowadays it's mostly 4G,
but Andrew, on the post thread,
he also mentioned that some new ResMed devices
are also being manufactured with 3G modems,
due to the shortage in 4G modems.
So even now, there's some machines being manufactured
with these 3G modems in them.
So potentially when the 3G network gets shut down,
that could potentially impact the way
that the ResMed devices transmit data
between the app and the AirView platform.
You're still gonna be able to get the data
to your SD card.
It's not gonna have any impact on that.
It's not gonna impact your machine.
Your machine's not gonna blow up,
but if you rely on the myAir app and you enjoy that
and you also have a clinician monitoring you from remotely
using the AirView platform,
then if you have a 3G modem in your device,
you could potentially run into some issues.
I'm not a telecommunications expert.
This is beyond my level of expertise,
but it's certainly something to be aware of.
And I'm gonna quickly show you now how you can determine
what network your machine is using.
So whether it has a 3G modem in it
or a 4G modem or CDMA, whatever it is,
I'll show you how to determine that.
And also then I'm gonna quickly show you as well,
how you can disconnect the modem,
how you can switch it off,
so that ResMed can no longer spy on you.
They won't have access to your data.
And then we'll go from there.
All right, let's do it.
Okay, so if you wanna find out
what cellular modem your AirSense 10 machine has,
what network it's gonna be using.
You can find it just down here.
You can see that says Air104G,
and it's got that little cell tower there.
So this is a 4G one.
The cellular modems that they use,
they do have the ability, most of them to fall back to 3G
if there's no 4G available.
So I'll quickly just show you the cellular modem.
So this is the cellular modem here,
that there is your antenna.
So that sort of picks up the signal,
and this part here,
where it says Sutron
that's your little cellular modem card
that connects to the cell tower.
So if you wanna deactivate your cellular modem,
so that your data isn't connecting with ResMed's servers,
you can turn it into flight mode.
So just through the settings in here, go into flight mode,
switch flight mode on,
but it's a little bit annoying
because it constantly asks you
if you wanna turn it off.
Otherwise you can just take the face plate off.
It's really easy to do, watch some other videos,
and then we need to do is really just disconnect
that little cable there.
And you've deactivated the cellular modem,
the machine will still function as normal.
You just won't be sending any data to ResMed's servers.
Pretty cool.
Now the cellular modem does just,
you can just pull it out as well.
So if you just wanna get rid of it altogether,
you can just throw it out,
or potentially if there is a problem
and they do shut down the 3G towers
and it no longer works, maybe you could just get.
I know ResMed doesn't like selling components,
but, maybe you could get yourself a 4G version of this
and then slide it back in, connect it back up
and you're good to go.
So just before I go guys,
I do wanna let you know
that I'm giving away a stack
of these ResMed AirSense 11 machines.
They fell off the back of a truck,
I've got hold of them
and I'm giving them away.
Now the first one is on our private Facebook group.
So if you wanna be involved in that,
jump on over there private Facebook group,
link's in the description,
that's where you're also gonna find great information
on the 3G stuff.
That's where I get all my information
from all the members on that great group.
So head on over there and sign up.
I know not everyone uses Facebook and that's fine.
I get not many people like Zuckerberg
or Fuckerberg or whatever you wanna call him.
So, the next one I'm gonna do on the YouTube channel
to all my subscribers.
So, thanks for watching guys.
Keep an eye out for that and yeah,
look out for one another.
Sleep well, and I'll see you soon.
And watch out for those 5G towers, only kidding.
Have a great day, see you soon.
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