[Asterisk-Users] Leave one call to pick up another

[Hadar Pedhazur]

Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Eric Wieling wrote:
>> How is this different from the way standard call waiting works
>> when provided from your telco? 
> 
> Um, he actually has two phone lines, not just one that he's
> flash-ing back and forth between.
> 
> If he hangs up the line, does the second call not continue
> ringing? I take it once he hangs up the line both calls are
> gone? 

I can't help with any solution, but I can add my voice
describing another symptom of this exact problem, in direct
response to your last question.

I have two lines, each handled by a Digium X100P card. If I
am on the phone (whether I initiated a call, or received
one, whether it uses one of the POTS lines or whether it's a
VoIP call), if another call comes in, I hear the Call
Waiting signal. If I simply hang up the current call, I lose
_both_ calls. Meaning, the phone does not start ringing with
the pending call any longer.

This is _not_ the same behavior that I had with the same
exact phone, when it was connected to the POTS line
directly. Hanging up on the current call yields a ringing
for the second call, after a second or two delay...

P.S. If I "flash" the call, I can indeed speak to the second
caller, and bounce back and forth between the calls, so I
get the same behavior that the original poster (Brian
Capouch) described.