Ty for seeing it through my point of view. BTW do you know of any good routers (like some that are possible to configure) ?

I have tried Portforward.com and any other things that I could find on google + There have some people looked at it that have alot of knowledge in that area, so I kinda gave up on it. Might just have a go before I throw it in the garbage, but I'm pretty sure I will come to the same conclusion again :/

The Linksys are supposed to be very good. Their UPnP implementation is very good. Exception is WRT54 or any model with 54 in it.
Others may have other suggestions also. netgear have upnp on by default.

Linksys is a good router and can be found cheap on e-bay. My self I have a BEFSR41 V3 and it will handle all of my Internet connection with no problem. I can DL at 800KB/s for hours with no problem. I have had up to 100 host connected and downloading from them with no problems. The only problem I ever have with it is when it sets for a while sometimes with no activity something will happen and it will not connect. But if I unplug it for a few seconds and plug it back in it works fine.


But for raw data transfer it is the best I have ever used.

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I was thinking of portforwarding. I need it for torrents as well or especially. Can't get downloadspeed past uploadspeed while using UPnP. The files im mostly after are to big and desirable for limewire. Especially with the freeloaders. It was actually because of torrents and not limewire that I started looking into portforwarding. Got a new file (big) downloaded three times of me and the next days when I tried searching for them noone was sharing but me. Kind of sickening to know that they were using my slots (blocking other sharing users) for all that time. If people download new content they should have the decency to share it as well.

Ty. I gotta start looking into a new one before this one drives completely bonkers

Not offended at all sleepless... just didn't want to offend you!
Hope you get your router sorted out!

Don't think so, but ty anyway

I have a LinkSys WRT54GSV4

Ports are forwarded; able to accept incoming, run as UltraPeer, etc.

The key for me was to give each machine behind the router a static IP

I've been reading about 'portforwarding' and 'static IP' quite a lot in here. I've just not really figured out yet all the advances it might have to go to all the trouble in setting up my system with it, as well as I'm not sure whether it would have any effect at all for me.
So, could someone be so nice and give me a "short", "simple" and "easy-to-follow" complementary essay about it including some well experienced recommondations????

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UPnP works by the program communicating with the device to open ports. UPnP is relatively new & some brands implementation of it isn't good & is unreliable.

Manual port forwarding means that the port(s) are set to be opened within the device by settings within the actual device software. The port is set to the specific ip address. Static ip is required or else, if you have a dynamic ip, the next time your ip address changed the port setting wouldn't work. That's why a static ip is so important. Port forwarding is more reliable than UPnP.

Games & video conferencing have traditionally required many ports to be opened. LW only needs one port to be opened.