Receiving a call while online

Note Your ISP controls how long the Internet connection can be on hold.

5.When your call is complete, click on the Resume my Internet Con- nection button (see Figure 20 on page 21). While your Internet connection is resuming, you will see the Resuming Your Internet Connection window (see Figure 21).

Figure 21. Resuming Your Internet Connection window

Note If you do not ﬁnish your call before the timer expires, your voice call will automatically be disconnected and you may also lose your Internet connection. To avoid this, there are two workarounds:

•Ask the person to whom you are speaking to hang up before the timer expires and call you back in a minute. Then resume your Internet connection until the caller contacts you again, this way the conversation can continue on indeﬁnitely, although in segments.

•Make arrangements with the person to whom you are speak- ing to continue the call later and hang up, resume your Inter- net connection, disconnect from the Internet, then take the call as usual.

1.Connect and log into your ISP (see section “Connecting and log- ging onto your ISP” on page 20).

2.If you have set Modem On Hold in the V.92 features settings control panel to Ask me whether to accept calls, a pop-up screen will dis- play if an incoming call arrives while you are on your Internet con-

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