ADSL doesn�t bother the phone line at all and vice versa. There is a splitter put on the phone jack so the phone uses the low end of the bandwidth and the DSL is all up above.. Of course if you don�t have these nifty filters on all the jacks with phones, they cut into the whole line and will kick your ADSL offline.. :) Im not sure but I thought ISDN required its own phone jack/line separate from the rest of em..
As for the phone company doing it, all you need is something like PacBell's voice messaging service and the disable call waiting feature.. Whenever you used it to go on the net whoever calls will immediately go to your voicemail and wont bother the phone line.. And yeah they do charge for it.. Comes with all that Call Waiting/Forwarding/Caller ID junk you get with their packages.. Pretty cheap though. > i thought the phone company did that, although they doubtless want $$ > for it. if the computer does it i'd think you'd have to have call > waiting and software smart enough to hear the beep, switch to the other > call (temporarily disconnecting you from the net) and then transfer > back, and likely redial since the isp will likely have disconnected you. > i don't see any way it could work on an ordinary phone line without > call waiting. now on an isdn line it could just cut your speed in half > and use the other half for the voice call, i think you can do that on > isdn, and possibly on adsl. > > Brett Stroup wrote: >> >> Greetings all, >> Some of pea sea using neihbors have some sort of software/service >> that will answer thier phone while thier on the internet, take a >> voicemail message, then play this message back to them on thier computer. >> My wife checked the site for whatever they were using and said that they >> don't support Macs. > -------------- -- Chris http://www.descentrecords.com http://www.towelhead.net http://www.mp3.com/towelhead http://www.mp3.com/stemcellvirus -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
