Hi John!

In John Piper's message to Mark Lewis on , John Piper said:

 ML>> The Modem becomes really slow, and sometimes the Modem Ready
 ML>> light goes off. Secondly if I go to another phone, I can hear the
 ML>> Call Waiting beeps in the background.

 ML>> People kept on telling me that my Modem will drop the carrier,
 ML>> but it doesn't, this is my problem.

 JP> You're still suffering ill effects as a result of leaving Call Waiting
 JP> ON. The best piece of advice is to DISABLE it while using your modem.
 JP> Obviously you're not going to be able to talk to anyone at the same
 JP> time. I for one consider it annoying when users lose carrier because
 JP> they were silly enough to leave their Easycall facilities enabled. I
 JP> hope you disable it when you access my system.

I think what Mark wants is to be able to connect to a BBS or whatever with
his modem, and if a voice calls comes in the call waiting Beeps will cause
his modem to hang up, the phone will ring and he will be able to get the
voice call.

This is quite a legitimate thing to want and many users I speak to say that
it is a family condition that if they are going to use a modem then it must
disconnect when a voice call comes in.

Unfortunately the better performing modems (such as USR Courier and Netcomm
Smartmodem) will not drop carrier even with call waiting beeps.

Not much these people can do except to out and buy a cheaper modem or
disable error correction in their init strings so that the modem does hang
up when the call waiting beeps come in.

Alternatively, if Mark notices the slow down etc associated with a call
waiting tone he should drop carrier immediately in his comms program and
then the phone will ring so he can get his voice call.


Regards,

Albert

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