Port Forwarding, Utorrent and Router Firewalls Question

[Bony Maloney]

According to Portforwarding when using Utorrent my Zyxel router requires its firewall to be off to obtain max download. Now when I check with Shields up it picks up that I am wide open to probing of my ports (ooh err missus) When I had my Netgear router all I had to do was forward the ports. I still got the green icon in Utorrent and Shields up gave me a pass on all common tests without disabling my routers firewall. Is it usual to disable the firewall and leave it like that? My router is the P-660HW T1 V2 flavour.

 

[Bony Maloney]

uTorrent works perfectly fine for me when I use UPnP on my wrt54gl, it also worked fine on my realy old netgear. So are you sure you have UPnP enabled on both the router and the client?

Portforwarding guide said to disable UPnP in Utorrent?(it is still disabled in the client) Not sure were to set it in the Zyxel router. I have just re-enabled the routers firewall and I still have the green icon for Utorrent indicating that my ports are forwarded OK. Shields up cannot now probe my ports

 

[Bony Maloney]

I've used utorrent on a zyxel 660hw for years and you just need to forward the port, no need to drop the firewall.

I don't like using upnp so just forward the port and job done.

Looks to be the case and sorted now. Thanks peoples