ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (06/05/88)
But the tone isn't loud enough to interrupt the carrier. When I moved to someplace with a better phone switch, the beeping was entirely innocuous. On older call waiting (and three way calling for that matter) both parties have their line interrupted when somebody hangs up. This is how you can tell someone has call waiting when you are talking to them. You don't hear the beep but you do hear the clicks. One day I was talking on the phone after I moved and I kept hearing this beeping noise. I asked the person on the other end if they heard it and they said no. It finally occured to me, and I asked my wife if we had call waiting. I hardly noticed the beep without the annoying click in front of it that I was so used to. -Ron
hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) (06/09/88)
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)
is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson) (06/14/88)
At least in the Atlanta area, "*70," prefixing the number does the trick.
My friends know to call at work, salesmen leave messages on the machine-
what could be better?
Cris
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...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!is813cslkraft@hpccc.HP.COM (Lyle Kraft) (06/15/88)
On rotary phones dial 1170 to disable call waiting.
At least, this works in Santa Clara, CA.