Port Forwarding Problem

I got a new linksys befsr41 router and I can't seem to do it right. I followed the guide on portforward.com perfectly. I'm using port 50002. Utorrent worked fine before I got this thing. I was using just a speedstream 5200 dsl modem before this and would almost always get the max speed I could get (160 Kb/s). Now I usually get less than 30. I always have a yellow triangle in the status bar and the test on the speed guide always says that its not forwarded correctly. I have 1.5/384 adsl. No firewalls except one in the modem which doesn't interfere with utorrent. No windows firewall.

But I tried the slackware torrent on the main site to test and it worked fine even with the yellow triangle.

Read the faq, followed the setupguide and everything else but it still wont work

Sorry if this was easily answered or if its hard to read, I'm kinda upset about this whole thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

1) Copy any PPPoE settings you have in the modem, then set it to bridge mode; if you find you can't access the net anymore, fill the PPPoE settings into the router

or

2) Set a static IP in the router on the modem's subnet, and then forward the desired port from the modem to the router's static IP, which would then forward to your computer from the router.

How would I do either? I'm not very good with computers.

Sorry if im asking too much of you guys

Thank you very much !!! It's working fine now. I did the first one and suddenly utorrent works fine again !!!

You guys are awesome !!

Wow, I have the same problem, but I have no clue what you are talking about this PPoE and all of these bridge modes.. I don't know how to access my modem only router... please HELP u/l speeds are 0.1kb/s !!

Nazpol,

We do not know what networking equipment or software you have, so you'll have to tell us the brand + model of modem and router so we can even know where to begin.