I noticed something interesting on my setup. I run Tomato, and have always had ports 5060-5080 forwarded along with some RTP ports but not all of the 35000-65000 range. Last night I decided to stop the port forwarding to see what happened.

My audio used to be redirected to a closer media gateway from Level3 for inbound calls. Now audio is proxied through zeus.voipwelcome.com and I don't see any of the Level3 addresses connecting. I also don't see any other VOIPo machines like central01, east01, and so on. Outbound calls are now also being sent via zeus. When I forwarded ports, my outbound calls were handed off to another media gateway.

I guess long story short, port forwarding changed my audio paths drastically. Non-port forwarding sends all of my audio through the zeus server at the 74.52 address at ThePlanet.

Scott