[asterisk-users] Strange beep during calls

[Alan Lord]

Felippe Silvestre wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> Our users are complaining about beeps that happen in the middle of some 
> calls. They are similar to the sound heard you are in a call and press 
> any button in your phone. Please find bellow some examples of these 
> beeps(the recordings are in Portuguese, but the beeps are easy to identify):
>  
> http://www.katizak.locaweb.com.br/asterisk/beep.mp3
> http://www.katizak.locaweb.com.br/asterisk/beep2.mp3
> http://www.katizak.locaweb.com.br/asterisk/beep3.mp3
> http://www.katizak.locaweb.com.br/asterisk/beep4.mp3
>  
> We are sure that our users are not pressing any button in the softphones 
> during the conversations.
> Do you guys are able to identify where these beeps are coming from? 
> Maybe an * functionality that we need to turn off... We are using 
> Asterisk 1.4.21.2.
>  
> Thanks.
>  

There was a short discussion on the OSLEC mailing list very recently 
about something that sounds (forgive the pun) similar. (Sorry I can't 
add anything else but I deleted them.)

I can't recall what the suggestions were but I think someone mentioned 
possible hardware faults on an analogue line card...

Al
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