[asterisk-users] Zap difficulties

[Curt Shaffer]

That did help. But can you help me understand why this is needed? I did not
notice any of the other issues you mentioned but I do notice that it takes
an unusually long time to hang up the channel when it is done with the call.
It almost seems like the signaling is not right. I was discussing this issue
with someone offline and from what I understand, the POTS lines are on
loopstart. If that is true why do we use koolstart on the zaptel channel?
Just as an experiment I did change the signaling to loopstart but that did
not help either. The biggest issue is that I am in an area where just about
all of the business are using POTS lines exclusively, and adding a pause to
all of these just seems like a hack to me rather than fixing an issue. I'm
not saying this is not my misunderstanding, because it may well be, but I am
just looking for the exact answer.

Thanks

Curt

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric
"ManxPower" Wieling
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:36 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Zap difficulties

Curt Shaffer wrote:
> I am having a weird issue with my zap channel (Digium TDM01B). Randomly it
> appears that the POTS line is not seeing all of the digits passed. We have
> to dial a 1 and the area code to call most numbers here, and we get the
> error that we need to dial a 1 and the area code when dialing this number
> even though we are dialing it. Also when I dial 8xx numbers it never works
> (same error). I do have all of those set up as allowed and routing
properly
> from the dial plan and I can test that by switching to a VoIP termination
> and the calls go through without a hitch. I can also dial these numbers
fine
> if I hook a POTS phone directly to the cable that connects to the Digium
> card. Asterisk looks as if it is passing the digits,
> (ZAP/g0/18003569377|120|r) for example. 

Dial(ZAP/g0/w18003569377|120)

This will put a .5 second wait before dialing to allow the telco 
equipment to get ready to receive DTMF.

Have you noticed other issues like, even when calling busy numbers, you 
hear a ringing tone for about 5.5 seconds before you hear a busy tone? 
That's because you are using the "r" option to Dial.


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