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# 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:

- 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.

For more information, see:

Creating a Dial-Up Location

Dialing Options