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Hi, I posted this on another website, maybe it sort somebody elses problem out:

i was having similar problems - only seeing yellows on my comp.
i had 2 firewall rules on my router; one for each comp.

BT1 WAN,* LAN,192.168.0.100 TCP,6881-6999
BT2 WAN,* LAN,192.168.0.101 TCP,6881-6999

what i did was combine the 2 entries into 1 using a range of IP addresses and presto...instant green.

BT WAN,* LAN,192.168.0.100-192.168.0.102 TCP,6881-6999

i think multiple "rules" to the router might have confused it and so packets were not getting through. i'm not sure if it's the multiple rules or if more than 1 rule using the same ports confused it. anyways, hopes this helps others.

Since you can't do port forwarding to more than one internal machine at a time for incoming packets destined to the same port range unless you base it on something else along with the incoming port number, that rule seems like it would only forward the port range to one and only one internal machine while not forwarding to any others. If you want to have ports open/forwarded for bittorrent on more than one machine, you need more than one non-overlapping port range. Such as 6881-6883 for computer 1, and 6884-6886 for computer 2 and have BitTornado configured appropriately on each machine to use the assigned port range. Also, you don't need to have so many ports forwarded. You only need as many ports opened/forwarded as you ever plan to have simultaneously active at one time. So if that max number is 3, only 3 ports need to be opened/forwarded such as "6881-6883."