Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Call Waiting and Telebit Modems Message-ID: <8479@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 29 Feb 88 19:21:28 GMT References: <2695@emory.uucp> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 29 In article <2695@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >I have just made the unpleasant (to me) discovery that when Trailblazer >modems are in PEP mode they are very resistant to carrier drops. >Everyone else may think this is great, but its a problem for me. Telebit's are VERY resistant to carrier drops to begin with. When I was testing 'em a couple of months ago I tried to make one hang up. I had it on a line that has an extension phone and connected up to our vax and ran rain (just to have something going on). Then went to the extension and started whistling and other things which would normally make a line hang up. For most of what I did (which included dragging out my Casio SK-1 (toy sampling keyboard) and playing things with the mike on the phone directly above the speaker) all it would do is slow down rain for a little while. Finally I got it to hang up with some determined banging on the keyboard ... I was *impressed*.. >Any suggestions? er... a second phone line? I personally don't like that "feature" of call-waiting that makes it hang up. Also, not all modems will hang up from the call waiting tone -- not even all of the normal 1200 baud modems will... -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- It takes more than a good memory to have good memories.