* Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Marquardt said: >> Hmm. Do you maybe have "knocking on the line" enabled? (Sorry, don't >> know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone >> tries to call you if you already have a connection.) That might >> disturb it.
> You mean call waiting? I used to get bumped offline by incoming calls, but Ah, yes, apparently :-) > the error correction on modern modems has gotten good enough that they > recover from the call waiting beeps... I still have some hangups as well as the original poster, so maybe it doesn't always succeed. And maybe the beeps are different in different countries. > There are a number of (apparently) standalone devices that have recently > come on the market which will detect incoming calls and let you put a dialup > link on hold for a certain amount of time. They look like they should just > plug right into the phone line without needing to talk to the computer, which > would make them OS-independent. Have you looked at any of those? No. Don't know whether they are even available in Germany. But I doubt they would work well with standard timeouts in the apps... -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
