Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!hunter From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: How to turn off call waiting Keywords: how do I do it Message-ID: <1344@earth.oakhill.UUCP> Date: 9 Jun 88 15:55:34 GMT References: <11721@sunybcs.UUCP> <3809@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Reply-To: hunter@earth.UUCP (Hunter Scales) Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx. Lines: 34 In article <3809@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> max@trinity.UUCP (Max Hauser) writes: >My solution to the "call waiting problem" with modems, several years ago, >was to order a second phone line. This works admirably. It costs around >ten dollars a month, but against that cost, one must consider the >advantages: Not only absolutely no data interruptions, but moreover, >incoming calls always get through (there's no stupid modem to ignore the >incoming-call beep). Also, there are additional options with two lines, >like fielding calls in parallel, or selectively patching ... > >What's sure is that nowadays it is not thought civilized to have ordinary >single-line telephone service if one uses a modem a lot, since that >busies out the phone for hours while real people are trying to call. >It's just not done. > M. Hauser Also, if you do get another line, if you tell the phone company that you are using a modem on it, you will have to pay a higher "data" rate. You wont get a better (less noisy) line, you just have to pay more money. Why? Because the phone net works on a statistical basis. The number of trunk lines needed is a function of the number of subscribers and the length of time of the average call. So if you spend hours on the phone reading the news, the statistics are skewed. (If everybody did this, we would need many more lines). -- Motorola Semiconductor Inc. Hunter Scales Austin, Texas {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax,gatech}!ut-sally!oakhill!hunter (I am responsible for myself and my dog and no-one else)