On my Linksys 4-port router, I was able to reserve a random ip assignment 'zone' in my LAN for computers with 'have windows auto assign an ip' enabled (DHCP configuration I think it's called) -- while having other computers assigned to fixed ip addresses outside that zone. That was the easy part, as it was just clicking a couple boxes in my router's configuration menus (accessable through internet explorer.)
The hard part was making sure all the computers on the network were 'behaving'. My ISP changed DNS servers on me awhile back, and I was unable to get on the internet till I changed all the fixed ip computers manually to the new values. Sadly, every time I reinstall windows from a backup windows image, I have to do that again...
Make doubly sure the LAN ip of the computer with BitTornado on it matches the port-forwarding destination in your router -- even rebooting both the computer AND router to verify the settings took effect!
If your ip range starts at 192.168.1.50 and the max users is 50, then the last one is 192.168.1.99 -- leaving 192.168.1.100 unused as well.
If 58 peers have a total speed of 1078 kB/s, (the seeds wouldn't be downloading and don't count) then on average each peer is only getting 18.6 kB/s -- less than half your reported value of 38 kB/s. So even though you're firewalled currently (for unknown reasons), you're not too bad off.
For the sake of your roommates, make sure if you're trying to upload using BitTornado and they are trying to upload too that it doesn't vastly overload the connection. Overloads can make dropped packets so bad that a connection can APPEAR to be firewalled -- because the replies sent by your computer never make it past your ISP's bandwidth-limiting ...or worse yet don't make it past your modem or router due to hardware overloads instead of software limitations!
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