Turning Off Call Waiting
If you have the call waiting service and plan to use a dial-up connection, you may experience interruptions in your connection if a phone call occurs on your modem's phone line while you are connected. To prevent an interruption, you can turn off call waiting while you are connected.
To turn off call waiting:
- On the AOL Desktop for Mac Sign In screen, click Connection: drop-down menu to open it, then click Setup Connection.
- Click the Dialing Options tab.
- Click the Choose Common Options button.
- Click the Dial *70 to disable call waiting box to clear it, then click the OK button.
- Click the OK button again to close the Dialup Setup window.
Notes:
- Typical codes for turning off call waiting are *70 for touch-tone service and 1170 for rotary service. Contact your local telephone company for the deactivation code in your area.
- When you sign off and your modem hangs up the phone, call waiting is reactivated.
- If you do not turn off call waiting while you are connected to the Internet, you will lose your connection when you receive an incoming call.