Been through set up, still extremely slow Please Help

[MissC218]

Hi all,

I am very (extremely) new to bittorrents. I have been through the set up guides for my router, I have set up a static IP address, I made the exception to my firewall, and I did the speed tests. I have read and re-read the set up guides and am fairly confident that I haven't overlooked anything.

I still get an orange triangle with a notice, "No incomming connections" and my speeds are-- D: 5 - 10 kB/s and U: 18 - 25kB/s. It also says that my ports are still not forwarded properly in the Options menu.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[AllGamer]

if the error messages says so, then it's correct, and the ports are not setup properly yet.

did you enable random port?

is your router UPNP compatible?

[MissC218]

Random port is disabled as per the instructions they gave me for my router. It's a D-Link DI-604. I am running Windows XP SP2. My speed tests are coming up at 230kbs down and 256kbs up. The UPNP is also disabled as the instructions told me to do. I will do the openoffice and get back to you. Thank you.

[AllGamer]

wait did you do the Manual port forwarding then?

since you mentioned both a disabled.

did you put the same Port number from uT in the DLink router port forward page?

[MissC218]

Yes, I did the manual port forward. Still not sure if that was a good idea, but i am on the net. Yes, the same number is in both, just double checked.

Speeds for OpenOffice are 28k down and less than 1k up

[AllGamer]

what is your ISP DSL advertised speed?

the one you are subscribed to

[MissC218]

They told me 100Mbps up and down.

[Ultima]

DSL can't run at 100Mbps. Post the results of the speed test linked to from the Speed Guide.

What modem are you using, and what firewall?