cattley@dept.csci.unt.edu (Gary Cattley - CEMI) (08/23/89)
I would like to know what effect a call waiting tone might have on my terminal when I am communicating via modem. Should I expect to see garbage on my screen, or maybe even lose the connection? I'm spending quite a lot of time on the phone/modem, and would really like to know if someone's trying to call me, even if call waiting trashed my session (I can always recover and "lost" data). Thanks for your time... gary Gary T. Cattley | "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre email:cattley@dept.csci.unt.edu| and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the" bitnet: id48@vaxb.acs.unt.edu | borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe." L.C. [Moderator's Note: A call-waiting signal will at best cause garbage on your screen and at worst will cause a dropped carrier and disconnection. Or is it the other way around regards best case/worst case? The solution is to use *cancel call waiting* on the line when placing calls. In most communities this is *70 or 70# or similar. If it is operative in your phone office, then begin using it on the front of each number dialed by the modem. The best solution of course is to get a second actual line -- without call waiting installed on it -- and use that line for all modem calls and voice overflow calls. Cancel call waiting causes incoming calls to get a busy signal. PT]