Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!!syap From: syap@cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Call waiting and modem!! Message-ID: <133@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 9 Oct 88 05:35:40 GMT References: <8858@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Reply-To: syap@cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam) Organization: Gadgetland USA Lines: 56 In article ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: *I'll post this promptly before we get into flame and counter *flame wars. Amen. *Some phone exchanges allow you do disable call waiting on a *per call basis by typing *70 or 70# before placing the call. *This is not universal, and is a extra cost option in some *areas. Any switch capable of call waiting could be programmed to do this. Sometimes they don't bother. More frequently, the people selling the services have no idea the capability exists or of why you'd want to do such a thing in the first place. If they don't sound convincing call the techies in repair service, they should know. Extra cost is the norm, but is usually insignificant. Let's **PLEASE** not have everyone reporting their own disable code, they're all different, and are usually based on the model year of the programmer's car. The Telco folks who know the feature exists will tell you YOUR code. *If you are not able to disable call waiting, another hack exists. *You can call-forward your phone to another phone before placing *the call. Call waiting doesn't go off, because your call is *automatically transfered. Find someplace innocuous to send these *people to (some phone companies have hooks that keep you from sending *them to the weather number). This method is ideal, but be careful. Negligently forwarding your calls to some innocent party is classifiable as an annoyance call. (Which is why you have to wait for an answer on the first attempt.) *If all else fails, order another phone line. Not only does this provide *for allowing telephone calls while the modem is in use, but it also *elimiates the need for call waiting (you can just get the phones to *hunt when the first is busy). I have a voice line with CW and a data line without. If you want both lines to have CW, forward the data line to your voice line and you're set. (I assume this is what you mean by hunt. True call hunt from the telco is usually expensive and only provided for business lines. Your mileage may vary.) Now, if someone could tell me why requesting a specific number would cost me $50 PLUS A MONTHLY FEE (i.e. they charge monthly for a one-time operation) then I'd know everything... (: James =========================================================================== domain: syap@vera.cc.rochester.edu | internet: 128.151.224.6 | "Piano is my forte" (-: possible path: ...!rochester!uhura!vera!syap | GEnie: FITZWILLIAM | ===========================================================================