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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Which modems support "call waiting"
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 12:17:29 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Qualitec (qualitec@aol.com) wrote:
- :
- : Regarding WANTING 'CALL WAITING' to work.
- :
- : Some people hav Emailed me wanting Call Waiting to work while they're
- : online and to be able to pick up the waiting call. The current modems do
- : not have this designed in, and if you hack a way for it to work you'll get
- : 'hit and miss' succes and/or slow/error prone throughtput while allowing
- : the modem to drop off when a 'foreign' sound interupts the carrier.
-
- There isn't any way for a modem to actually support Call Waiting. There
- isn't any way to design this in. When you switch to the incoming call,
- the first call is terminated to a "hold" condition at the Central Office
- and that means the line with the remote modem _no longer has the carrier
- signal from your modem_.
-
- The *only* thing, if you insist on using call waiting, you can do is lower
- the time the modem waits after loss of carrier and allow the modem call to
- be dropped when an incoming call comes in.
-
- The best thing you can do is get a separate data line. If you are on the
- modem that much and your phone (voice) is in use that much that you need
- Call Waiting, it only makes sense that you need a separate data line.
-
- Or... save a few bucks and lose a few calls. Your choice.
-
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- "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
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