Ports, BitTorrent, and Linksys

Hello all, you may remember me from my Road Runner connection problems a few months back. I was getting shitty speed then, but I figured out how to configure uTorrent properly.

Anyway, since then, I bought a notebook and a wireless router to share Interwebs. It's worked fine; all I had to do to get it to like uTorrent is forward ports 6881-6889. However, recently, I upgraded the firmware for the router (hoping it would prevent me from resetting the router every few days: another annoying problem). uTorrent worked fine for a few days after that, but once again, I am encountering problems. The red sign in uTorrent taskbar tells me that my firewall is blocking incoming connections OR my ports aren't forwarded correctly. I've already made sure that my router has those ports open. I've tried turning on (and off, to experiment) UPnP mapping (which my router says it's compatible with). The only thing I can think of is to restore my router to it's default firmware version (assuming I can do this by Restoring to Factory Settings). And as the title says, it's a Linksys.

Any help before I give Rex a call?

Well, if you have two machines running through the router now they may have switched their assigned IPs. I.E. the ip that used to be assigned to your desktop has now been assigned to your laptop, so the ports you think are forwarded to the laptop aren't anymore. I know this will happen with my two computer when I reboot them at the same time.

Hm, didn't realize this. Ok.

Thing is, I don't use torrent on my laptop. I just use it on my desktop computer at night after I go to bed. Is there anyway to forward the torrent port range on both IP addresses (i'm guessing 100.1 and 100.2)?

OP here.

Well, here's what I did: I restarted my desktop, hoping that my router would give it back it's original IP address, if that was indeed the problem. I started BitTorrent up, but it still gave me the yellow sign during DHT Login, saying that my network configuration could be messed up. I had already checked the ports, so I know my router is opening them. I fiddled with the speed filters in uTorrent, setting my upload speed down (which, btw, has been working fine through all this; download has been giving me problems). It still gives me the read sign saying I'm behind a firewall or my ports aren't forwarded, but my speed is back up to normal. I really wish I could fix this for good without messing with my router.

on the computer you want torrenting ports forwarded to, go to command prompt, type ipconfig.  it will show you a 192.168 address.  that is the address you should be forwarding to.

oh, and leave UPnP on

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yeah so i can attack you. UPnP is a massive gaping whole just waiting to be penetrated.