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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Call waiting and Procomm 2.4.2.
Message-ID: <13347@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 04:35:35 GMT
References: <5405@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <827@kimbal.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <827@kimbal.UUCP> by rick@kimbal.UUCP (Rick Kimball):
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| From article <5405@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, by iscomm@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Independent Studies):
| > I have a phone line with call waiting that doubles as my modem line.
| > The problem is when a call comes in on the wait line while I am on-line
| > to where ever, I get my line dropped and then the phone rings through with
| > the wait line call.
| 
| Try your local phone company.  Some of them offer a service that allows
| you to turn off call waiting by dialing a special sequence.
+---------------

Hayes-compatible modems have an S-register which controls the amount of time
between loss of carrier and hang-up; if carrier is re-established before the
timeout, the connection isn't dropped.  On the Smartmodem 2400 it defaults
to 14 (AT S10=14); setting it higher (e.g. S10=50) will cause call-waiting to
garble your line but not hang up.

++Brandon
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