foulser@yale.UUCP (david foulser) (02/18/88)
I am looking for a solution to the problem of communicating over a phone line with "call waiting" (in which a second call can come in, signalled by a beep-beep tone) while the first call is active). In particular, I am looking for something that will handle the beep-beep tone as a signal to me, rather than interpreting it as garbage data. Please mail all replies to foulser-david@eli.cs.yale.edu, or call me directly at (203)432-1200 or (203)777-7442. Many thanks for your help. Dave Foulser
murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) (02/18/88)
In article <23340@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> foulser@yale.UUCP (david foulser) writes: >I am looking for a solution to the problem of communicating over a phone line >with "call waiting" (in which a second call can come in, signalled by a >beep-beep tone) while the first call is active). In particular, I am looking >for something that will handle the beep-beep tone as a signal to me, rather >than interpreting it as garbage data. I don't know if this can be done. If you want to answer the call, thats one thing. But if you want to ignore it, MaBell has provided a way to disable this feature. Just key *70 before making the call (put this in your dial string if you like). If your area supports this feature, you will get a couple tones then a regular dial tone. Works great. -- ----------- Rodrigo Murillo, UC - Boulder (303)761-0410 ----------- murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU -or- ..{hao|nbires}!boulder!murillo (Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Worhol)
laba-5ac@web3b.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola) (02/19/88)
In article <4365@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes: >In article <23340@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> foulser@yale.UUCP (david foulser) writes: > >>I am looking for a solution to the problem of communicating over a phone line >>with "call waiting" (in which a second call can come in, signalled by a >>beep-beep tone) while the first call is active). In particular, I am looking >>for something that will handle the beep-beep tone as a signal to me, rather >>than interpreting it as garbage data. > >I don't know if this can be done. If you want to answer the call, thats >one thing. But if you want to ignore it, MaBell has provided a way to >disable this feature. Just key *70 before making the call (put this >in your dial string if you like). If your area supports this feature, >you will get a couple tones then a regular dial tone. Works great. > > Or, if you do not have a touch-tone line, you may use 1170 instead of *70 to cancel call waiting. However, I don't know how you can keep it active and have it signal to you without putting garbage over the modem. This would be helpful, since if I call somewhere, I don't want to have the line garbled with call-waiting information, but I also would like to know if calls come in. ------------------------------------------------- Erik Talvola laba-5ac@widow.berkeley.edu "To err is human... to moo bovine."
tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (02/20/88)
In article <23340@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> foulser@yale.UUCP (david foulser) writes: $ $ I am looking for a solution to the problem of communicating over a phone line $ with "call waiting" (in which a second call can come in, signalled by a $ beep-beep tone) while the first call is active). In particular, I am looking $ for something that will handle the beep-beep tone as a signal to me, rather $ than interpreting it as garbage data. And then, in article <4365@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes: $ I don't know if this can be done. If you want to answer the call, thats $ one thing. But if you want to ignore it, MaBell has provided a way to $ disable this feature. Just key *70 before making the call (put this $ in your dial string if you like). If your area supports this feature, $ you will get a couple tones then a regular dial tone. Works great. Well, that's probably the best solution, if it's available in your area. Here is a next-best: Subscribe to three way calling. This lets you have two way outgoing calls. Call up a number that's always busy -- the phone company seems to have some of these everywhere -- and that will defeat call waiting. Then call your host computer. This costs some bucks, though. It may cost as much as the next-next-best solution, which is what I do: (Actually, I think this is best but may cost more, which is why I call it next-next-best.) Get a second phone line put in. You can get calls when you are on the modem line. And you can also have the phone company set it up so that calls are transferred to your second line if your first line is busy so you only have to publish one number. In NYC, my second line only cost me about $7. Tom Reingold INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research UUCP: rutgers!bellcore!tr 435 South St room 2L350 SOUNDNET: (201) 829-4622 [work] Morristown, NJ 07960 (201) 287-2345 [home]