Re: ppp hangup question
* Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com> 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...
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