That did help. But can you help me understand why this is needed? I did not notice any of the other issues you mentioned but I do notice that it takes an unusually long time to hang up the channel when it is done with the call. It almost seems like the signaling is not right. I was discussing this issue with someone offline and from what I understand, the POTS lines are on loopstart. If that is true why do we use koolstart on the zaptel channel? Just as an experiment I did change the signaling to loopstart but that did not help either. The biggest issue is that I am in an area where just about all of the business are using POTS lines exclusively, and adding a pause to all of these just seems like a hack to me rather than fixing an issue. I'm not saying this is not my misunderstanding, because it may well be, but I am just looking for the exact answer.
Thanks Curt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric "ManxPower" Wieling Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:36 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Zap difficulties Curt Shaffer wrote: > I am having a weird issue with my zap channel (Digium TDM01B). Randomly it > appears that the POTS line is not seeing all of the digits passed. We have > to dial a 1 and the area code to call most numbers here, and we get the > error that we need to dial a 1 and the area code when dialing this number > even though we are dialing it. Also when I dial 8xx numbers it never works > (same error). I do have all of those set up as allowed and routing properly > from the dial plan and I can test that by switching to a VoIP termination > and the calls go through without a hitch. I can also dial these numbers fine > if I hook a POTS phone directly to the cable that connects to the Digium > card. Asterisk looks as if it is passing the digits, > (ZAP/g0/18003569377|120|r) for example. Dial(ZAP/g0/w18003569377|120) This will put a .5 second wait before dialing to allow the telco equipment to get ready to receive DTMF. Have you noticed other issues like, even when calling busy numbers, you hear a ringing tone for about 5.5 seconds before you hear a busy tone? That's because you are using the "r" option to Dial. -- Now accepting new clients in Birmingham, Atlanta, Huntsville, Chattanooga, and Montgomery. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
