Combination of odd problems with port forwarding/uploads

[edwildman54]

This is actually a BitTorrent question, but since those forums are transitioning here, I'm posting it here. I have uTorrent installed but started a large torrent before I saw most questions here are re uTorrent.

I am running BitTorrent on a Dell GX260 (pentium 4) with a legal copy of XP Pro installed and all updates current. BitTorrent version is 6.1.2 (just installed). Router is a Dlink WBR-2310 (wireless) hard wired to an Intel Pro1000/MT ethernet card. Wireless functions are turned off. Anti-Virus is ESET Nod32 latest version with virus signatures current. Also using ZoneAlarm Extreme Security for Firewall and browser security - anti virus is off. Win XP firewall is off. Primary Browser is Firefox, tho I do have IE8 installed. My ISP is "wireless" since I live in the country, but I am hard wired all the way to the moden/receiver outside.

I do have encryption turned on in BitTorrent so my ISP won't block me from general torrenting.

I followed instructions @ PORTFORWARD about port forwarding for my router and internet connection to the letter. I also followed the instructions from other threads here about slow browsing problems, firewall and anti-virus exceptions, etc and made sure ESET and ZoneAlarm would allow BitTorrent forwarding access, etc. I have turned off every other program (like PGP desktop) I can think of that might interfere with internet access.

Problem is with port forwarding/uploads. BT is giving me a Red ! warning -" not connectible for uploads." Upload speed at the moment is .1kb, has gone up and down but at some points its been 1/2 to 1/3 of my download speed which is quite acceptable all the time. Even when I am supposedly not connectible, I am still uploading. At this point, I have uploaded a little over 10% of what I have downloaded on a 650 MB torrent.

I have tried turning off both ESET and ZoneAlarm but the problem persists. I tried resetting my Internet Connection TCP/IP settings to Automatically Assigned and back to manually assigned, and it persists. I've tried every possible combination of changing one of these variables at a time I can think of, but it persists.

Whenever I run the uTorrent port tester, it says the port I have assigned for connection is not open. To further confuse things, the last few times I ran it, the IP address that it tried to check the forwarding port on wasn't a port number I had seen before. I just went back to the tutorial at PORTFORWARD and this is my external IP address, which is not an IP address that my ISP provider had given me to program my router with or an IP address that the IPCONFIG /all command had given me and I had used to configure my router and Internet Connection with.

I know this is pretty complicated but any thoughts from the BT/uT gurus out there?

[DreadWingKnight]

I have tried turning off both ESET and ZoneAlarm but the problem persists.

By turning off, did you actually uninstall?

[Switeck]

"I have tried turning off both ESET and ZoneAlarm but the problem persists."

Simple solution, reformat and reinstall windows without those.

Or you can try completely uninstalling them and retesting...