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- From: James Darrell Watkins <jwatkins@fay.infi.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: call waiting always disconnect
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:15:22 -0500
- Organization: US Army
- Message-ID: <3125727A.5134@fay.infi.net>
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- Jerry is absoluJerry 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...
- >
- > --
- > ***** Jerry Adams - jadams@west.net *****tely right. Most phone companies charge you for the *70 function, so I
- just told the yo-yos to kill their goofy money-making scheme.
-