atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Mitel Telephones & Systems long wait before call is connected.

Just as an aside: If anyone's curious about comparison between Mitel ARS and NEC LCR, see the NEC section. I just posted on how NEC LCR works. Kind of a contrast in methods.

Don't know if this finally got figured out but had a couple of things to add here. First of all the number of digits to follow is not all that important as only relates ot how many digits you will get on SMDR printout and how long a receiver sits there. However I always fill this in as often as possible to free up the receivers. But the switch will begin routing a call as soon as it sees enough digits to figure out the route. Sometimes if the dial tone is low from the CO you can direct select trunks and they will dial out okay but the switch does not hear them and goes through a bunch of trunks before getting one it knows it can dial out on. That's why you have to force digits out on T1 ccts on wink start via use of limited wait for dial tone since it can't hear the T1. Be careful, though, because if you put limited wait for dial tone in any COS other than the one for the trunks (and all the trunks should be in their own COS) then you could have problems. Sometimes that option in a phone COS will stop the thing from dialing out (I installed one many years ago and this drove me crazy for hours). Also with T1s I set limited wait for dial tone to 1 second in form 4. With other types of trunks if it becomes necessary to force the digits out then I would probably set to 2 seconds.

Jimmy,
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Vadim