Handling inbound calls while dialed-up

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Wed Jan 8 11:43:48 EST 2003


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> A coworker mentions that he's pretty sure he saw his
> neighbor taking a call using his peecee while it was
> dialed up, and he thinks he saw a dialog box come up to
> indicate the caller-ID data and such, and he's pretty
> sure that the peecee was still actively being used while
> the conversation was underway.  If true, this would
> indicate something more involved than modem-on-hold...

That sounds like he has something else thing. He could have Cable/DSL and
uses a modem just to get callerID info or has voicemail software, I know
lots of people that do that.

I don't see how it's possible to talk on the phone while using a normal
phone modem without some very special equipment, a second line, or an
EXTREAM loss of bandwidth.



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