[asterisk-users] help a bald guy

[David Backeberg]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Danny Nicholas <danny at debsinc.com> wrote:
> It Mostly works for me;  Due to internal security concerns, we use POTS with
> TDM400 and TDM410P cards for incoming/outgoing service.  Here is the
> short-list of my most common concerns:
> 1.  Some numbers (especially AT&T conferences) never bridge the call, so I
> have to Answer, then Dial these numbers to make Asterisk keep the
> connection.

weird. You could always host these conferences yourself.

> 2.  Feedback chops some of my conversations, especially on conference calls.

Define 'chop'.

> 3.  Some calls cut off at 1-2 minutes for no apparent reason.

We run a business that involves a lot of young people, a substantial
portion of which rely on cell phones while walking into elevators or
driving into tunnels, etc. We are pretty good at blaming the customer
for these kind of calls. Do you have reason to suspect the problem is
on your end?

> 4.  Calls take 5-10 seconds to connect and allow conversation (usually
> manifests as 2 second delay in start of conversation).

That's really weird. Is this universal, for all calls?

> Present resolution is to install 1.4.25-rc1.  Played with 1.4.24 and 1.6.1
> yesterday and have significant loss of joy.

I'm not sure any of these problems map to a problem with your version.
Are you getting system alarms on your PRIs / T1s? Are you getting
static or pops on the line? My first thought was you have a
misconfiguration with your line signaling or a bad physical line.