Trunk takes 8 seconds to pickup

I am still having an 8 seconds delay when dialing 9 to pick up a pots. I replaced my old 1 GHz machine with a 2.8 dual core, with 2 gig of ram. I really don't think it should take it should take 8 seconds to pick up an outside line.

What is the average time does a trunk take to pickup for everyone else?

I found 2 or 3 different reasons why this can happen.

1 Try tightening up your outdial rules, don't just use 9|. Use masks that match the number of digits you actually have to dial. Otherwise asterisk will wait until it thinks you have finished inputting digits.

2 You don't mention the type of analog hardware you use but check that atas etc don't have their own internal dialplan adding delays.

3 Finally this is what really worked for me, but your mileage may vary :

http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/users/freepbx-2-3-adds-post-...
I was also seeing a 5-second delay dialing between zap extensions that was being caused caused by the bad-number context that this cured.

After frigging around with the above I got pstn out down to 3 secs which as I understand it is as good as asterisk gets and internal zap calls ring as quickly as sip calls.

I installed 2 additional FXO modules thinking that might be the issue. It still didn't work. So I tried modifying my outbound rules and it did help a little. That change reduced it from 8 seconds to 6 seconds. I then followed the link http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/users/freepbx-2-3-adds-post-... and made the change in amportal.conf. I changed the the key AMPBADNUMBER=true to AMPBADNUMBER=false and then rebooted the server. BAM, 2.5 seconds which is totally acceptable in my book. I want to thank SkykingOH and johnf for helping me through this annoying issue that I have had for 2 weeks now. Again, thanks

Mark