[Asterisk-Users] 13 sec. delay what is causing it?

steve szmidt steve at szmidt.org
Wed Sep 22 12:35:48 MST 2004


On Saturday 18 September 2004 06:21 pm, Lyle Giese wrote:
> Perfectly normal.  On analog lines, the caller id is set between the 1st
> and 2nd rings.  So Asterisk has to wait for the caller id and depending on
> the speed of the computer that hosts Asterisk, 13 seconds is exactly right.
>  A normal ring cycle is 2 secs ring on 4 seconds of silence, so the 2nd
> ring is 12 seconds into the call.
>
> I just put in a nice Asus motherboard with a 500 mhz front side bus, 2.4
> gig AMD processor & 512 meg ram for the pbx here and I get the first ring
> on the extensions at the same time as the second ring on the incoming ring.
>  I was testing and trialing on a celeron 1.4ghz machine with 256 meg ram
> and the video borrowed some of the system ram.  The analog extensions were
> not ringing until the third incoming ring on that slow machine.
>
> Lyle

I've been using 2 seconds for about a year without ever having noticed a 
missing CID (on analog lines). 
-- 

Steve Szmidt

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