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- From: eric@ao.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: call waiting always disconnect
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:30:25 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Message-ID: <eric-2502962130250001@sobt.ao.net>
- References: <4fl3r1$c2o@ns.cs.hku.hk> <4fq6de$170@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> <4g1m9s$1vt@acme.sb.west.net> <3125727A.5134@fay.infi.net> <4glr7j$dd7@news.tricon.net>
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-
- In article <4glr7j$dd7@news.tricon.net>, mwhitney@tricon.net (Mike
- Whitney) wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- Yes, but usually the call waiting beep is only on one side of the line.
- The other end can still hear your modem clearly, but the beep interferes
- with your modem's reception of the remote end.
-