[asterisk-users] Cut Through DTMF & caller ID on SIP phone

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Sriram wrote:
> Setup : Asterisk 1.6 on Fedora Core 9 with TE410P.. 1. I;ve noticed
> that whenever during "background(menu-filename)" method - i try to
> press any key for selection like 1 for some prompt, 2 for another
> prompt etc...Asterisk takes a while before it takes me to the
> respective option..Is that normal behaviour ? by the time the caller
> waits to listen to the appropriate prompt on selecting 1 - he thinks
> nothing is happening for 2-3 seconds .. fyi, I used to use Trixbox
> prev. and didnt find any such problem ...

This typically happens when you have overlapping extensions. i.e. a menu
option 1 and extensions starting with 1.  Don't forget to look in
include'd contexts, and don't forget wildcards.