Disable Call Waiting

If you have call waiting on your phone line but don't disable it before you connect to the Internet an incoming call will frequently disconnect you.  

Some people like this feature as it enables them to continue to receive calls while another family member is on the Internet.   But if you don't like these frequent disconnects you should set your system to disable call waiting when it dials.  This is easily accomplished through your dialer.   Win95/98 users can set their Dial Properties to automatically dial the code to disable call waiting when they place a call to the Internet.  

For Windows 9x:

• Open My Computer and then Dial up Networking.
   

• There should be a connection in here related to you internet connection, open it (Figure 1).
    

• Once in the Connect To screen click on Dial Properties at the lower right hand corner (Figure 2).

NOTE: If Dial Properties is disabled, hit cancel.  Then Right click and left click on Properties.  Under the Properties screen put a check beside "Use Area Code and Dialing Properties" and click on OK at the bottom.  Repeat step 3.

• In the middle of the Dial Properties screen put a check beside "To disable call waiting dial:" and select *70, from the drop down box to the right (Figure 3).

These steps will only disable call waiting while you are on the internet.  As soon as you get off the internet it will automatically enable call waiting again.

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