Port Forwarding not working.

[SquareRoot121]

I am in a very unique position. I have a personal internet provider (T1 connection) for only our community/neighborhood. Though it is not very fast, ever since I have gotten it I can not use a bittorrent client. I have gone to portforward.com, forwarded the port , changed to static IP and changed the router settings for all that. With all that done several times the ports I forwarded are not open when I check them. Firewall settings are set to allow this program. I have basically done the "proper setup procedure" and selected the best UPLOAD speed. The network status symbol is currently not showing anything but when it does it is an orange triangle for no incoming connections. my connection speed is 640 kbps according to speed test. average after doing several tests. here is some more useful information:

net.max_half open value set to 8

OS is Windows XP SP2

security software installed: AVG 7.5, WinPatrol, and Comodo Firewall Pro

Router: linksys WGT54G firmware V8

ISP: Linda Link(private community provider)

connection type: T1, 640 kbps

I have two computers(one tower and one laptop) neither work with a bittorrent client

I have spent all day trying to figure out why torrent files won't download, and I think I have tried everything. I don't know what else there is left to do, so if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

-Shaina

[Firon]

Does your router even get a public IP? I bet it doesn't. And if you can't get torrents working at all, they're probably blocking it.

[SquareRoot121]

I don't know much about that at all.