Hadn't used BT in a while and bought a new hard drive and did a new XP install on my box. I re-downloaded the bit torrent and bit tornado software and was getting constant yellow lights. Finally a tracker told me my port selection was messed up and I realized all of the settings have changed in this new 3.7 version.
So I setup a new port range between the 10000-60000 figures, reconfigured my router and finally see the green so I know all is well.
Just a couple questions though, I see that UPnP port forwarding is enabled by default now. If I leave this off, will there be any degradation of my bt abilities ? Why was the default changed ? I was told UPnP opens up some large security problems. Should I turn it on and enable it to work in my router ?
Also, if I let bit tornado randomly select the ports to keep a low profile with my ISP, do I have to forward the entire range ? 10000-60000
Or maybe forward a 100 port range and let BT randomly select 10 ports from that 100 to use each session ?
Thanks Shad0w or whoever responds.