asterisk users - May 2005 - Outbound dialing issue with FXO

We are installing a number of systems with 2 TDM04B cards. Have done all 
the isolation to unique IRQs, etc. All inbound calls seem to work fine. 
However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine and 
other times we get a "you must first dial a 1 or 0" message back from 
telco when dialing out standard POTS lines.

We are running AAH 1.0 which is Asterisk 1.0.7. Six Polycom phones are 
on the system. Any ideas on this one?

Mike

Mike Clark wrote:
> We are installing a number of systems with 2 TDM04B cards. Have done all 
> the isolation to unique IRQs, etc. All inbound calls seem to work fine. 
> However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine and 
> other times we get a "you must first dial a 1 or 0" message back
from
> telco when dialing out standard POTS lines.
> 
> We are running AAH 1.0 which is Asterisk 1.0.7. Six Polycom phones are 
> on the system. Any ideas on this one?
Just a shot in the dark...I was getting this same thing with a TDM11B 
card.  Turns out I needed to add a pause before dialing on the FXO port; 
the first digit was getting lost randomly.  Adding a 'w' before the 
extension expression in the Dial command fixed it entirely.

-Johnathan

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> Mike Clark
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound dialing issue with FXO
> 
> We are installing a number of systems with 2 TDM04B cards. 
> Have done all the isolation to unique IRQs, etc. All inbound 
> calls seem to work fine. 
> However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work 
> fine and other times we get a "you must first dial a 1 or 0" 
> message back from telco when dialing out standard POTS lines.
Try adding a couple of "w"'s in your dial plan to each of the
dialed
numbers. Two seem to do the best and give about a second before the dial
starts to allow for the dial tone to kick in.

RObert

Mike Clark wrote:
> However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine and 
> other times we get a "you must first dial a 1 or 0" message back
from
> telco when dialing out standard POTS lines.
Did you get this working yet?

-Johnathan

Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> Mike Clark wrote:
>
>> However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine and 
>> other times we get a "you must first dial a 1 or 0" message
back from
>> telco when dialing out standard POTS lines.
>
>
> Did you get this working yet?
>
>
Yes, it does seem to be working fine now by adding the "w"s to the 
dialstring.

Thanks,

Mike