[Asterisk-Users] New Asterisk user - Dumb Questions

[Kevin Hanson]

Mike McMullen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is my first posting and if am asking dumb questions please
> let me apologize. I'm in no way a telephony or pbx expert. I have
> tried googling for answers but can't seem to find the answers I need.
> Probably because I'm not using the right words.
>
> I have installed Asterisk at Home 2.0 which uses Asterisk 1.2.
>
> Everything appears to be running great with two exceptions:
>
> 1) On outbound dialing it appears that about 50% of the time the
>    leading dial digit is lost by the phone company. I have 8 analog
>    lines connected into two digium TDM400P cards.
>    I think Asterisk is dialing the number before the carrier (SBC)
>    is ready. Is there a way to create a delay in the dialing to allow
>    SBC to be ready to take the dialing? Kind of like the "w" command
>    in modem dialing. If so, what do I need to put and in which 
> configuration
>    file?

In AMP, edit your zap trunk(s) and add a 'w' to 'Outbound Dial Prefix'.  
This will prepend a 'w' onto all outgoing calls on those trunks.  I have 
the same problem as you and this solves it.

>
> 2) Is there a way to increase the volume of received vmail in email? I've
>    tried listening to them on 2 different PCs and a laptop. Even with 
> volume
>    turned up all the way, they are very faint.

I haven't tried this yet, but in 1.2 there is a new feature to the 
voicemail application.  From the CLI type 'show application voicemail' 
and you'll see:

g(#) - Use the specified amount of gain when recording the voicemail
           message. The units are whole-number decibels (dB).

Cheers,
kevin
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