Handling inbound calls while dialed-up

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Wed Jan 8 12:15:38 EST 2003


On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:07:05PM -0500, Ben Boulanger wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:35, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> There are other solutions out there that split the signal based on the
> frequency.  They're not exactly reliable and I personally have never
> known anyone to be happy with it after their purchase, but they may have
> come along further with the technology since then.
> 

Not sure how that would work.

Voice and modem calls use the same frequency range, which is why
when you pick up the phone you hear it screeching.

DSL lines can get away with this as they use a frequency outside the
4khz voice range, so DSL data can piggyback.

-Mark
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