On Thursday, August 17, 2000, tim <tim at tneu.visi.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John R. Sheets wrote: > > > 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? > > All modems can handle call waiting gracefully - you just need to adjust > the S10 register in the modem to a longer timeout (ATS10=X). You'll get a > couple of bad packets, but your connection will stay up. > > AFAIK, the only "call-waiting" enhancement that new modems do is either > 1. ignore the call waiting tone, or 2. use a different default for S10. > > Also, any phone line can disable call waiting for the duration of a phone > call by adding either a 1170 or *70 to the front of the dial string. Finally looked it up... http://www.808hi.com/56k/v92.htm What V.92 offers: Increased upstream rates - up to 48k by using a PCM stream through an a/d conversion. [Still, only 1 a/d conversion is required: if you have trouble getting 56k rates with V.90, there will be no improvement.] Faster Handshaking - The time to establish a connection may be reduced. Call-Waiting Compatibility - Allows modems to stay connected 'on-hold' while you take an incoming call-waiting call. ... More Info on Call-Waiting & V.92: The amount of time you can place your Internet connection on hold while taking another call will be up to your ISP: the V.92 recommendation will permit ISPs to set their modems to wait for 0 - 16 minutes, or, to wait indefinitely. V.92 client modems may include software that will warn the user when the ISP-determined timeout approaches. Sounds pretty cool for those of us _still_ waiting for DSL. Wonder what the Linux support will be like, out of the gate. There's also a SlashDot article I somehow missed: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/04/2034244.shtml Looks like it won't be out til November (not September as I thought). 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