problems after port forwarding

[david3483]

Hi, I am new to the forum and really hope that someone can help me somehow...

I recently port forwarded my router so that my bitTorrent was not NATed. I already had a static IP and I used the following website for intsructions http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... g/BT/Voy...

I set the port to 10000. My bitTorrent works fine but Firefox and MSN Messenger have connectivity problems. Sometimes they work fine when bitTorrent is running but eventually they have connection problems.

I know that sometimes bitTorrent can cause a connection to be lost if the download is very fast and that as yet there are no solutions to this but for me the connection problems are happening at slow download speeds. When I close bitTorrent the other two seem to work okay.

Do i need to adjust the settings of Firefox and MSN since I port forwarded my router or is this a problem with bitTorrent? It seems to me that this can't be the case as the progrmas work when bitTorrent isn't running!

I am using Windows XP. Anyone else have this problem or know what I can do to fix it?

Many many thanks in advance,

David McKechan, 23 UK

[david3483]

If anyone is interested I got a solution from another forum.

Port 10000 is assigned to Windows network data protocol. I changed the port forward to port 60000 and this seems to have worked so far...