[Asterisk-Users] Wacko Distinctive Ring Patterns being detected??

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 06:34:23AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've recently got a "second" number installed on my PSTN line,
> trusting the Asterisk distinctive ring detection would work as
> expected. It appeared to work fine at the start, as the second number
> generated a different ring pattern to 0,0,0 (in the console) only to
> realise that almost every phone call to this "second" number generated
> a different ring pattern. Sometimes it might detect the same 2
> patterns, but this is a rare case.
> If Asterisk allowed me to configure up to 10 ringing patterns, I could
> probably cover most of the ringing patterns being detected, but
> unfortunately there is a limit of 3 which means 50% (or more) of the
> calls are coming in under a distinctive ring pattern not configured in
> Asterisk, and hence going to the default context.

Is there any deeper reason for that limitation, other than "it didn't
bother anybody enough"?

> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas/etc on how to resolve this issue?

Could you post here some ring patterns you get? A distinctive ring can
identify a pattern that is "similar" enough to an existing pattern.

> 
> Thanks in advance guys.
> Gonzalo
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