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From: ken@slhisc.uucp (Ken Stamm)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: can a modem respond to CALL WAITING ??
Keywords: modem call waiting
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.213912.777@slhisc.uucp>
Date: 5 Jun 91 21:39:12 GMT
References: <14380@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Jun02.205244.24464@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: IP Engineering
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In article <1991Jun02.205244.24464@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>
>In article <14380@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> hpchen@celestial.Eng.Sun.COM
>(Huei-Ping Chen) writes:
>
>>my friends have been complaining about my home phone very hard to get
>>through, since I have been dailing-up from home to my work station at work 
>>a lot.
>>I know there is a phone service "CALL WAITING", while you are on the phone,
>>if someone is trying to get through, it will give you a beep tone.
>
>Call waiting and modems make a very bad pair. NEVER get call waiting on a
>line you ordinarily use for modems.  Better to get two physical lines from
>the phone company instead for only a little more money.

Sure, but if you can't afford a second phone line, you can usually disable
call waiting on a one-time basis for a call by prefixing whatever you were
going to dial with *70 .  Anyone calling will then get a busy.  Call waiting
is re-enabled automatically at hangup.  This works in most electronic exchanges
offering call waiting.  Try it.

I know of no way to disable call waiting on incoming calls. (anyone?)

-- 
Ken Stamm (uunet.uu.net!slcpi!slhisc!ken) (212)341-3868