cracct1@netcom.COM (Cliff Rodriguez) (06/21/91)
This question maybe has been asked many times, but I am new
to this group. My question is: Is there a way to detect a
second call signal and hangup modem connection temporarily,
so I can answer the second phone call, and modem connection
can be resumed without redial after second call is over?
Any solutions, ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
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Phone: (408) 452-0968 Tomtnixon@hayes.uucp (06/25/91)
In article <1991Jun21.091936.11547@netcom.COM>, cracct1@netcom.COM (Cliff Rodriguez) writes: > Is there a way to detect a > second call signal and hangup modem connection temporarily, > so I can answer the second phone call, and modem connection > can be resumed without redial after second call is over? Nope. You might be able to configure the remote modem to ride out a short, temporary interruption (like the Call Waiting beep itself), but if you try to make to wait through switching to another call, it will surely drop the line. If this happens to you frequently, your best bet is to install a second phone line. -- Toby Nixon, Principal Engineer | Voice +1-404-840-9200 Telex 151243420 Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. | Fax +1-404-447-0178 CIS 70271,404 P.O. Box 105203 | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon AT&T !tnixon Atlanta, Georgia 30348 USA | Internet tnixon%hayes@uunet.uu.net
rickt@wybbs.mi.org (Rick Tucker ) (06/25/91)
In article <4034.28662f56@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes: >In article <1991Jun21.091936.11547@netcom.COM>, cracct1@netcom.COM >(Cliff Rodriguez) writes: > >> Is there a way to detect a >> second call signal and hangup modem connection temporarily, >> so I can answer the second phone call, and modem connection >> can be resumed without redial after second call is over? > >Nope. You might be able to configure the remote modem to ride out a >short, temporary interruption (like the Call Waiting beep itself), >but if you try to make to wait through switching to another call, it >will surely drop the line. If this happens to you frequently, your >best bet is to install a second phone line. In some areas you can disable your call waiting. In our city we can disable the call waiting by keying "*70" (yes a star) before you dial the number. This must be done manually(does it????) This would at least keep you from being knocked off the line everytime someone calls. At my (home/office) I have two lines, and by utilizing a concept called busy call forwarding and call waiting I can have up to three connections at once. On line 1 (the business line) I have a service called busy call forwarding. (similar to or actually is trunk/line hunting) The telephone company set it up so that if line one is busy, then it will trunk over to line two. On line two I have standard call waiting. Hence if I am on the modem on line 1 and someone calls it trunks to line 2. If I am also on line 2, then I get that annoying beep to carry on another conversation :-) -- ======================================================================== Rick Tucker | ^^ T W I N P E A K S ^^ rickt%indcon@wybbs.mi.org | "The owls are not what they seem." uunet!4gen!indcon!rickt | quote from the giant.
acrosby@uafhp.uark.edu (Albert Crosby) (06/27/91)
In article <615@wybbs.mi.org>, rickt@wybbs.mi.org (Rick Tucker ) writes: > In some areas you can disable your call waiting. In our > city we can disable the call waiting by keying "*70" (yes a star) > before you dial the number. This must be done manually(does it????) You can indeed put *70 in a touch tone dialing string. If you have pulse, put 1170 in your dialing string instead. You may find it necessary to put a pause after it, depending on your phone system. (On campus, we discovered that unhooking one of the wires in the phone would disable call waiting and leave the rest of the system intact. But it was a strange in-house system.) I leave call waiting enabled for some calls, and disable it for others...