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- From: hewho1@aol.com (HeWhoCannotBeNamed)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,tw.bbs.comp.network,tw.bbs.comp.hardware
- Subject: Re: call waiting
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 21:15:45 GMT
- Organization: org1
- Message-ID: <4d6lv3$uod@zippy.cais.net>
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- In article <4d6a24$bj1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
- noc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (NO CARRIER) wrote:
- >: Is there anyone who knows how to set it up? I only have one phone line
- >: and when I am using my modem, no one can contact with me. It would be
- >: great if the call-waiting can cut off my connection.
- >
- >: In fact, I found that it might be the phone line problem. I have been
- >: testing my modem at different phone lines. Some of the call waitings can
- >: cut off the connection, but some don't. Is that due to the intensity of
- >: call waiting? Is there anyone who works in phone company and knows about
- >: this?
- >
- > This is my predicament exatcly.. I hope someone can help us.
- >
-
- Well, like the question of "comm overruns", this one gets asked at least once
- a week. If you look back over the past few weeks, you'll see that there's
- really not much you can do, although some suggestions that have been made
- include:
-
- 1. Putting something in the modem string that tells it to drop the line when
- there is a "pause" in the connection (due to the call wait beep). Actually,
- something in the string that tells it to drop after a SHORTER pause than it
- currently uses.
-
- 2. De-activitating error corretion.
-
- None of these things work, in most cases. Some modems. like Cardinal, do
- respond "well" to the call wait beep (they drop the connection and let the
- call come through); others don't.
-