[asterisk-users] Slow to get dialtone when going off hook - bigproblem for me :(

[Vicky]

You can also use wait
exten => X,1,Wait(3) ( for 3 secs )

On 13/11/06, Jim Archer <jim at archer.net> wrote:
>
> --On Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:53 PM -0500 John Novack
> <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Dovid B wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >> How hard would it be to have asterisk detect a dial tone ?
> > I really can't say. I am not a "C" programmer, so I wouldn't even know
> > where to start.
> > Given that cheap dial up modems have, for the past ??20?? years, have
> > been able to do just that, I would think it should have been an early
> > consideration
> > For those 1% of users, the last time I tried, the insertion of a
> "w"  had
> > no effect for pulse dialing either.
>
>
> Well thanks to everyone who responded, and thanks to multiple w's I am
> back
> in operation.  I went off hook a bunch of times and the worst case seemed
> to be 3 seconds to get a dial tone (which is pretty bad).  It's hard to
> google one letter, but I eventually found that each w is .5 seconds, so 7
> w's were inserted to be safe.  I also called Cox and griped but I doubt
> that will do me any good.
>
> I am a "C" programmer, but I don't know anything about the inards of
> Asterisk.  However, I would expect that dial tone detection would be a
> function of the hardware, not the Asterisk software.  The cheap modems do
> this on board and export a simple command set.  But I also don't know
> anything about Digium's hardware either.
>
> Thanks again!  I really appreciate the help!
>
> Jim
>
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