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Date: 25 Dec 87 01:41:01 GMT
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From: portal!cup.portal.com!Patrick_A_Townson@uunet.uu.net
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Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Subject: Re: Sophisticated modems and Call Waiting
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Dave Levenson questions having two lines in the same hunt group when one is
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used for modeming --
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My modems will auto answer, but generally I don't use that feature, and I
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usually leave it turned off via software. My configuration, which I think is
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ideal, works like this --
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We only give out one number to persons calling. This number is mainly for
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voice. The second number is mainly for my outbound modem calls, and I never
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give the number to anyone except a person I am expecting to receive a modem
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call from.
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Both lines have call waiting, and the ability to suspend same (*70). When a
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call is in progress on line one and a second call arrives, call waiting will
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notify us. The second call can be brought in, and under Starline, switched
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to the second line by /flash/#2/announce/flash. I get the call on the second
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line, my roomate goes back to the call already in progress on line one.
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If we wish, implementing cancel call waiting on line one forces a second
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incoming call to <hunt> to line two. If I am on the modem (i.e. cancel
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call waiting by default) then busy is returned to the second caller. If
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not, then line two rings and the call is answered.
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If on the other hand we each have a call on a line and a <third> call comes
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in, it will be via call waiting (usually on line one) and it can be
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answered and retained on line one or transferred to line two, where again,
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it will trigger call waiting. It can be answered by whichever of us is on
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line two, and held or disposed of.
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If I am on a modem call (almost always outgoing), then *70 is defaulted into
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the dialing string...and an accidental wrong number, for example, which would
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otherwise ring line two and disturb me is shunted via hunt to line one....
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Line one appears on single line instruments in the kitchen and my roomate's
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bedroom, and in the living room area. Line two appears on a single line
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phone in my bedroom and on the two modems (I will never be in both places
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at the same time). A Black Box swither allows either my Apple computer or
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my terminal to use either modem....and allows either modem to use the phone
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line, or allows the terminal to talk to the computer via null modem or
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to the printer, etc.
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Patrick Townson
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(at the time this was written I was a user on Portal Communications.)
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