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From: tnixon@hsfmsh.UUCP (Toby Nixon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: A line busy indicator.
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Date: 5 Jul 90 15:09:57 GMT
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Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.  Norcross, Georgia
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In article <9007012203.STEVE@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>, Steve Schallehn writes:

- A simple solution (if possible) for your phone problem is to
- wire your house phones such that the phone line first goes to your
- modem and then to the rest of the house phones.  That way, if you want to
- make sure that you are not kicked off of the phone line, just unplug
- the phone cord that is going to the rest of the house and no one would
- be able to pick up when you are on the modem.

Actually, it wouldn't even be necessary to unplug the cable if 
you're using a Hayes modem (and many others have this feature, too): 
they automatically disconnect the phone attached to the "Phone" jack 
whenever the modem is off-hook, to keep you from inadvertently 
disrupting a modem call by picking up.  If you wired all of the 
other phone through this, they would automatically be disconnected 
whenever the modem was off hook.

	-- Toby

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