[Asterisk-Users] Outbound dialing issue with FXO

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On May 20, 2005 07:21 am, Phill Wolf wrote:
> I wish the card (or Asterisk) waited for the dialtone before dialing.
> Sometimes the phone company gives a dialtone within 1 second; other times
> it takes 2 seconds and occasionally 3 seconds or longer. Crufting a large
> number of w's into the dialplan makes Asterisk seem pokey, but less cruft
> means more rejected or wrong-number calls. Hayes modems can wait for a
> dialtone... so perhaps Asterisk could too.

It seems like your telco is the crufty one here, not Asterisk.  :-)

-A.