[Asterisk-Users] Dial Plan Help

[Luki]

Jon,

* scans through the valid extension in the context every time the user enter
a digit. If you only have single digit extensions, dialing 2 is definitive
and * can jump to that extension without waiting for further digits. But if
you have 2 and 200 defined, a single 2 is ambiguous and asterisk will wait
for further digits until the DigitTimeout expires (as Matthew said, good
idea to set it to something low; default is 10 seconds I think). But if you
dial 200 it's definitive again and there is no need to wait further; this
obviously doesn't work with open-end patterns.

That's the different/advantage but both setups work. Hope that clarifies
things.

--Luki