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- From: redhawk@tiac.net (redhawk)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How can I recieve calls while on the internet?
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 16:28:17 GMT
- Organization: Redhawk Publishing
- Message-ID: <31274ded.4571053@sundog.tiac.net>
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- jharris@ccinet.ab.ca wrote:
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- >
- >
- > Every time someone connects to the internet with a single phone line
- >they are cutting anyone off who wants to reach them. I need to remain
- >available but cannot afford another line. Does anyone know how to do this?
- > I have tried call waiting, a telephone service which produces a beep
- >on the line when another call is waiting, after which you use the hangup
- >switch to switch between calls. I had hoped this interference would hang the
- >computer up, letting me answer the other call. This did not happen, nor was
- >the tone loud enough to hear over the computer's noise.
- > Is there any program I can get which will hangup at the interference
- >of the beep? Or perhaps something which reduces the volume of the modem's
- >communication noise? I have noticed that the sound switches between two
- >volumes, the lower of which I can hear the tone on. Does anyone know how this
- >problem can be solved? Everyone must have to deal with the same thing.
-
- There is no way I know of to be connected to the internet and receive
- voice calls on the same line. I sprung for the extra line.
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