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I've set my router to forward ports 6881-6999, TCP and to the IP listed when I run ipconfig/all in cmd. My firewall has 6881-6999 forwarded and should be allowing in/out traffic and TPC/UDP. My XP firewall is turned off. I went to all-nettools.com, and it said there was no proxy detected (transparent web proxy put up by ISP). Yet still my status light is yellow, all my sorces are local, and I'm downloading at 4-7kb/s whule my upload rate is 30+kb/s. What's going on?

try here :

http://btfaq.com/natcheck.pl

this will test your open port. Start to download a torrent as usual, open up the Details about your torrent, get the long info hash, paste it, and you'll see. good luck

I got a failed message but why when I have opened the the ports on my firewall (the standard xp firewall)
I have seen d/l's go faster on dial up.

I have the same problem as Guest.... But not the same Router....

how do i change my router and open ports pleaz help

If you have a transparent web proxy, please read the sticky posts in this forum: http://forums.degreez.net/viewtopic.php?t=280 and http://forums.degreez.net/viewtopic.php?t=399 .
Try a tracker not on port 80 or change the torrents to use other ports if they allow it. You can also try to put you wan(internet) ip under prefs, advanced, local ip.
And double-check your settings, also disable the firewall when testing.