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Free Samples. Nerd Vittles provides information on specialized applications of asterisk based VoIP applications. They currently offer a free sample of their One Ringy-Dingy application. Anyone with the free asterisk software, a VoIP service provider and a spare phone line can configure this application on their own. You can now test drive it first.

Here’s how to use this free service.

  • Call from a phone in the U.S. with CallerID.
  • Call the number shown on the map (inset) which is one of our DIDs in Charleston, South Carolina. The call will never be answered so you won’t be billed for the long distance call. Within 10 seconds, you should hear a fast busy. Just hang up, and our Asterisk server will call you back within 30 seconds. Listen carefully!
  • You’ll be provided a random password for your call, and then you’ll be prompted to key it in. With your phone keypad, just do that and press the pound key (#). If you get a message that it’s incorrect, just try again (HINT: I told you to listen carefully). We used to have a fixed password, but the war-dialers were abusing the system so now it’s random. Back to the drawing boards, boys!
  • Once you successfully enter the password, you’ll then get a DISA dial tone. Dial 1 and then the area code and phone number of someone you love (in the United States only).

    • This is an excellent way for you to check out the voice quality of TelaSIP calls without spending a dime.

    Just don’t abuse the offer or this paragraph may magically disappear … as will the free calls.

    For those that don’t know us, we don’t record your calls, and we don’t store the number of the person you’re calling although the Asterisk logs probably have it for a while anyway. For security purposes, we do log your CallerID and the time of your call just in case you do something you shouldn’t be doing and the FBI traces the call back to us. If any of the above offends you, exercise your constitutional right to not use this free service. And a final reminder: none of this works if you don’t have CallerID enabled when you call. How would we know where to call you back? You won’t believe how many calls we receive with a CallerID of Asterisk. That obviously won’t work either.