[Asterisk-Users] TDM400P slow getting line tone

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 14:34 +0100, Fabrizio Mazzoni wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just installed a TDM400P with 2 FXO modules on my asterisk server. The
> card works perfectly.
> To get users to ring out from my SIP phones i setup an extension with 0 that
> basically does something like this:
> 
> extension => 0,1,Dial(ZAP/g1) where g1 is the group of the two FXO channels
> extension => 0,2,Hangup
> 
> 
> This works exactly as i want so users basically can dial 0, wait for the
> dialtone and then dial the requested number.
> 
> 
> The only problem that i have is that from when a user dial 0 to when i get
> the dialtone from the telephone line, something like 5 seconds pass... is it
> possible to pull this wait time down to about 1 second? or even less??

Unless you are doing something odd that requires the user to listen to
the dialtone and validate there is one, why don't you just go ahead and
capture the number and dial it out. The benefit is that asterisk then
logs the outgoing number and the times in CDR. 

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>