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:

  1. On the AOL Desktop for Mac Sign In screen, click Connection: drop-down menu to open it, then click Setup Connection.
  2. Click the Dialing Options tab.
  3. Click the Choose Common Options button.
  4. Click the Dial *70 to disable call waiting box to clear it, then click the OK button.
  5. Click the OK button again to close the Dialup Setup window.

Notes:

For more information, see:

Creating a Dial-Up Location

Dialing Options