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- From: mwhitney@tricon.net (Mike Whitney)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: call waiting always disconnect
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 01:42:30 GMT
- Organization: The Tri-Cities Connection
- Message-ID: <4glr7j$dd7@news.tricon.net>
- References: <4fl3r1$c2o@ns.cs.hku.hk> <4fq6de$170@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> <4g1m9s$1vt@acme.sb.west.net> <3125727A.5134@fay.infi.net>
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- On Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:15:22 -0500, James Darrell Watkins
- <jwatkins@fay.infi.net> wrote:
-
- >Jerry Adams wrote:
- >>
- >> shawn lalanne (shawnl@jax.jaxnet.com) wrote:
- >> : >I have set the S10 register to the highest value 255 but still it loses
- >> : >carrier when someone dial in due to call waiting. I know the actual
- >> : >delay duration for the modem to wait is equal to register S10-S9. And I
- >> : >have checked my S9 is only 6. Can any expert out there give me some
- >> : >more advices?
- >>
- >> : Try disabling call waiting with *70 in your dial string. This will disable
- >> : call waiting for this phone call.
- >>
- >> This may require you to subscribe to another service first. I live in
- >> Santa Barbara, California, and have to rely on GTE. I got call waiting a
- >> while back as a part of a special package deal. It took a while, but sure
- >> enough, I got bumped off one evening. I found out that it was a call
- >> waiting from my daughter's boyfriend. I called GTE, and was told that I
- >> had to subscribe to "cancel call waiting" in order to turn call waiting
- >> off. When I asked why the facility for turning call waiting off wasn't
- >> part of the original package, the lady said " I don't know." Cost: $1.25
- >> a month extra! Check with your phone company to see if you have to do the
- >> same...
- >>
- >Most phone companies charge you for the *70 function, so I just told the
- >yo-yos to kill their goofy money-making scheme.
-
- Yeah, my telco (Sprint/United Telephone) also charges extra for "enhanced
- call-waiting". Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but even if you've got your
- modem configured to ignore loss of carrier (S10=255), if the modem on the
- other end detects loss of carrier, he will hangup unless he's configured to also
- ignore loss of carrier.
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