# Suggestion: Exclude Certain COM Ports

**URL:** https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/suggestion-exclude-certain-com-ports/5238
**Category:** Development tools
**Created:** [September 14, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/suggestion-exclude-certain-com-ports/5238 "2011-09-14T08:13:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/suggestion-exclude-certain-com-ports/5238/1 "2011-09-14T08:13:01Z")

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eg, on my laptop, COM3 is the internal modem - so that will never be used for Open-AT!

I’d find it useful to have some way to exclude such ports from the ‘Devices’ view…

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### Author: ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2011, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/suggestion-exclude-certain-com-ports/5238/2 "2011-09-15T07:19:38Z")

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Yes, already logged as an evolution request 😉