I have been reading through the Voip forum and I see some of you have had success using Australian provider Pennytel. I decided to give this a try and I have signed up for an account with them.

I am having huge trouble getting things to work and their website is no help at all. I have tried out both their free softphone and X-lite and have had no sucess in making calls with either. I seem to always get the message "we're sorry. your call cannot be completed as dialed". I have credit on my account and I have been entering the phone number as 00644XXXXXXX. The phone seems to register ok.

I also think I have some port-forwarding/router issues to resolve - I got to the point described above only through bypassing my Linksys WRT54GC router and plugging the cable modem straight into my PC. What ports should I be forwarding? Anyone have any experience with this particular router?

Any help most appreciated! I am pulling my hair out!!