[asterisk-users] Re: Outbound FXO call, getting "You must firstdial..."

[Steven]

Are you are saying that you are adding a 'w' and leaving the 9 on the front?

If that is the case, remove the 9 and add more 'w's.

Any changes at the telco will break you system if you are relying on it dropping that first digit.

I believe it would be better for you to use the 'w's for consistency purposes.


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Steven

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"Nick Ellson" <grimm at nickellson.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0610070820520.25954 at gubbie.nickellson.com...
>
> I did have a bit of trouble with searching (what to search on), though looking for the w in the dial command did return quite a 
> few hits as you described. Thank you so much for taking the time to reanswer a covered subject.
>
> I played with the settings and 1 w and removing the :1 after EXTEN (not stripping the leading digit?) makes it reliable. Not 
> stripping the first digit worked about 2 in 5 attempts. I stumbled onto that idea when I missdialed a number "921503<7 digit 
> number>" and it worked! The 2 was a fat finger mistake. So I tried "90xxxxxxxxxx" and that worked.
>
> As I have some success now, I can tune this so it works as the HowTo's list. :)
>
> Thank you again!
>
> -- 
> Nick Ellson
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>
>
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Rich Adamson wrote:
>
>> Nick Ellson wrote:
>>>
>>>  I am not sure what I might be set up wrong, but dialing out with my Zap/1
>>>  port seems to alwyas get the "You must first dial a 1 when calling this
>>>  number" message from what sounds like the actual PSTN. My zapatel.conf and
>>>  extensions.conf bits below. Any advice? (I do receive inbound calls, and
>>>  it does sound like I am getting the PSTN error. I do notice that when I
>>>  get an inbound call, I have 5 secs of sevear static before it suddenly
>>>  becomes clear.. could that be happening on the outboud as well munging the
>>>  first few digits?)
>>>
>>>     signalling=fxs_ks
>>>     language=us
>>>     context=inbound_qwest
>>>     sendcalleridafter=2
>>>     callerid=yes
>>>     threewaycalling=yes
>>>     transfer=yes
>>>     cancallforward=yes
>>>     callreturn=yes
>>>     echocancel=yes
>>>     echocancelwhenbridged=yes
>>>     rxgain=0.0
>>>     txgain=0.0
>>>     group=1
>>>     channel=>1
>>>
>>>  exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/1/${EXTEN:1},60)
>>
>> You should probably do a little research before posting questions like this as its been answered many many time.
>>
>> The problem is that "some" pstn central offices are not ready to receive dtmf digits as quickly as what asterisk sends them. So, 
>> an option "w" has been added to the Dial command to instruct asterisk to wait about 200 milliseconds before sending dtmf. Try 
>> something like this:
>> exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/1/w${EXTEN:1},60)
>> and notice that lower-case "w" in the string. If that doesn't fix the problem, try two "ww"'s in a row.
>>
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