[Asterisk-Users] 5 way calling?

[hugolivude]

Here's the problem - I only have 2 FXO lines.  I can call one person,
transfer them to the conference room then hang up.  Now 1 FXO is used.
 I can then call another person and transfer them to the conference
room and hangup.  Now the BOTH lines are used.  I can then dial the
local extension for the conference room and I have a three way call
but that's as far as I get.

I've tried establishing a three way call on a single line, but then I
cannot seem to transfer the call to the conference room.

There's another problem as well.  I have three way calling on my Bell
lines, so b4 Asterisk, 3 way calls were established by pressing the
Flash key and the three way call only used one line.  I just
discovered that when I do the same thing w/ Asterisk (press the Flash
key, dial the other party, press Flash again) BOTH of my POTS lines
get used up.  Any ideas on what's wrong w/ my configuration?

Thanks,
Hugh

On 8/16/05, Kris Edwards <krisedwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as quality of meetme, that depends a lot on your setup.  I've
> had 2 zaps and 3 sips and the quality was perfect.  So if you're
> talking about 5 people all on zap channels, I think you'll be
> satisfied.  If you're not, there are a couple of third party apps on
> the wiki you could try.
> 
> (for the record, I've never had a meetme conference in which there
> were four users on two zap channels 3 wayed, but I suppose * wouldn't
> really care about the 3 way part of things... just dump them into the
> same room and everyone should be able to talk.  (The only thing I can
> think of is that the users 3-wayed would not be able to use dtmfs to
> control themselves, but rather they would control both users on that
> channel.. so, you couldn't have an admin and a user on the same zap
> channel, or you couldn't mute just one of the two since * would see
> them as the same person))
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/16/05, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
> > hugolivude wrote:
> > > I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS).
> > >
> > > Before I implemented Asterisk, some users were using Bell services to
> > > set-up 5 way calling:  The user would set up a three way call on one
> > > line, switch to the second line, set up another 3 way call and then
> > > link the two lines together with the Flash key, thus establishing a 5
> > > way call (the user, 2 others on line 1, another 2 on line 2).  How can
> > > I accomplish the same thing w/ Asterisk?
> >
> > You transfer each call into the same MeetMe conference.
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