Are you are saying that you are adding a 'w' and leaving the 9 on the front?
If that is the case, remove the 9 and add more 'w's. Any changes at the telco will break you system if you are relying on it dropping that first digit. I believe it would be better for you to use the 'w's for consistency purposes. -- -- Steven http://www.glimasoutheast.org "Nick Ellson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did have a bit of trouble with searching (what to search on), though > looking for the w in the dial command did return quite a > few hits as you described. Thank you so much for taking the time to reanswer > a covered subject. > > I played with the settings and 1 w and removing the :1 after EXTEN (not > stripping the leading digit?) makes it reliable. Not > stripping the first digit worked about 2 in 5 attempts. I stumbled onto that > idea when I missdialed a number "921503<7 digit > number>" and it worked! The 2 was a fat finger mistake. So I tried > "90xxxxxxxxxx" and that worked. > > As I have some success now, I can tune this so it works as the HowTo's list. > :) > > Thank you again! > > -- > Nick Ellson > CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, CCAI, > MCSE 2000, Security+, Network+ > Network Hobbyist, VFR Private Pilot. > > > On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Rich Adamson wrote: > >> Nick Ellson wrote: >>> >>> I am not sure what I might be set up wrong, but dialing out with my Zap/1 >>> port seems to alwyas get the "You must first dial a 1 when calling this >>> number" message from what sounds like the actual PSTN. My zapatel.conf and >>> extensions.conf bits below. Any advice? (I do receive inbound calls, and >>> it does sound like I am getting the PSTN error. I do notice that when I >>> get an inbound call, I have 5 secs of sevear static before it suddenly >>> becomes clear.. could that be happening on the outboud as well munging the >>> first few digits?) >>> >>> signalling=fxs_ks >>> language=us >>> context=inbound_qwest >>> sendcalleridafter=2 >>> callerid=yes >>> threewaycalling=yes >>> transfer=yes >>> cancallforward=yes >>> callreturn=yes >>> echocancel=yes >>> echocancelwhenbridged=yes >>> rxgain=0.0 >>> txgain=0.0 >>> group=1 >>> channel=>1 >>> >>> exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/1/${EXTEN:1},60) >> >> You should probably do a little research before posting questions like this >> as its been answered many many time. >> >> The problem is that "some" pstn central offices are not ready to receive >> dtmf digits as quickly as what asterisk sends them. So, >> an option "w" has been added to the Dial command to instruct asterisk to >> wait about 200 milliseconds before sending dtmf. Try >> something like this: >> exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/1/w${EXTEN:1},60) >> and notice that lower-case "w" in the string. If that doesn't fix the >> problem, try two "ww"'s in a row. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users