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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: How can I recieve calls while on the internet?
Date: 18 Feb 1996 02:30:15 GMT
Organization: CCI Networks, a division of Corporate Computers Inc.
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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.

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