When you are online and you get a phone call you hear the modem ring. So you can either pick up the phone that is connected to the modem and talk or ignore the call alltogether. If you pick up you have seven seconds to find out who it is. If you hang up before then you keep your internet connection. After seven seconds you loose the connection. Although you cant surf and talk at the same time. I have also found that sometimes you can talk longer than seven seconds and not get dissconnected. I guess it depends on who you dial up to and what their timeout values are set at. I would say that its a good Idea if you want to be online and not miss calls at the same time. "John R. Sheets" wrote: > On Wednesday, August 16, 2000, Andrew Nemchenko <drew at usfamily.net> wrote: > > Go To Best Buy and Get a Lucent Technologies PCI Actionteck modem with > > call waiting. This modem Is specifically designed to work in linux. I > > bought it and from the very first day I put it in and followed the > > instruction mannual on its installation, It has worked like a charm > > and not given me one error or problem not even one. I highly recomend > > it. It goes for around $45 at least the last time I saw one. > > What was that about call waiting? Does that mean the modem will handle > call waiting interruptions gracefully? Anything to do with that new > V.92 (or whatever it was called) standard that's supposed to land in > September? > > John > > -- > dusk at ravendusk.org http://www.gnome.org > jsheets at codeweavers.com http://www.worldforge.org > http://advogato.org/person/jsheets > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! ------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org